How to Debug AWS Application Load Balancers With Minimal Colourful Vituperations
A multitudinous method to make a HTTP request meet a matching HTTP response.
A multitudinous method to make a HTTP request meet a matching HTTP response.
An introduction to deploying an autoscaled Jenkins cluster on AWS ECS using code all the way down.

#TWTechRadar: Watchmen project gets the nod in the 2018 ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.

Our team wanted to validate the Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in our environment after a deployment – the problem was they were lost amongst all the other ones in there. They were tagged, but we couldn’t work out how to find them – until we saw the Resource Tagging API.


It would seem counterintuitive for an organisation to release their code for all to see. However, with the exception of those who sell software as a business, more and more are seeing the benefits of doing so.

AWS’ Shared Responsibility Model means that you are responsible for patching the operating system running on your EC2 instances, and this is where things get … complicated.

Have you considered using spot instances to save on AWS costs? It may pay to investigate the details of your operating environment first! Andy and I took journey down a pricing rabbit hole…