Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I have a couple of services I own that run in EC2 that, sadly, still lack any log aggregation. In-house we have our own system for this, that technically can also run in EC2 but for a variety of reasons I consider it overkill for my use case in EC2. Basically, the solution I am after is to do the minimum amount of work to see these logs aggregated to an S3 bucket, making them available for…
One of the things that is pushed here a lot is the necessity to make all new applications really production-ready before being deployed as a service. There is of course the adage "If it's not monitored, it doesn't exist" but beyond that there are a lot of other little fiddly details just to make something run. I'm talking about things like init scripts, logging etc.
It's very easy to get wrapped…