Choosing an AWS EC2 Instance

Choosing an EC2 Instance Hey guys, in this post I am going to talk about what all to think about before choosing an EC2 instance for whatever work load that you have for it to do. The Basics Ok, if you are new to cloud, the first thought that comes to mind is something akin…

SSL Termination and AWS ELB

What is SSL termination? SSL termination is the term pointing to proxy servers or load balancers which accepts SSL/TLS connections however do not use the same while connecting to the back end servers. E.g. A load balancer exposed to the internet might accept HTTPS at port 443 but connects to backend servers via HTTP only.…

Building Microservices? Here is what you should know

Just to refresh our memories, micro service architecture is an evolution of the SOA architecture, whereas SOA was focused on integration of various applications, Micro services architecture (MSA) aims to create small modular services which belong to a single application. MSA came to the forefront with the advent of high speed computing (lowered latencies) and…