Every engineer has their favorites. Not necessarily the most popular services or the ones that show up in every architecture diagram, just the ones that make your day better when you get to work with them. These are mine, right now, in no particular order.

AWS ECS/AWS Fargate

If you’ve ever managed EC2 instances just to run containers, you know the relief that comes with Fargate. No patching the underlying host. No capacity planning headaches. You define your task, point it at your container image, and let AWS handle the rest.

Hi, my name is Samuel Tillman, but you can call me Sam. I’m an IT Professional currently working as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the National Basketball Association. I spend most of my days waist deep in AWS infrastructure, Terraform, and whatever else is needed to keep systems running. I’ve been doing this tech thing for a while, so you you’d think maintaining a blog would be easy.

It ain’t…