Terraform State Management on AWS: Imports, State Moves, and Emergency Repairs
Terraform on AWS: import, state mv/rm, stuck locks. July 2026: S3 use_lockfile (TF 1.10+); DynamoDB locking is legacy.
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Terraform on AWS: import, state mv/rm, stuck locks. July 2026: S3 use_lockfile (TF 1.10+); DynamoDB locking is legacy.
ECS blue/green without downtime: CodeDeploy canary/linear still works, and native ECS BLUE_GREEN (2025+) is now a first-class path. July 2026 checklist: hooks, alarms, dual-run cost.
CI/CD infrastructure is invisible until your DevOps bill hits $15,000/month. Build minutes, artifact storage, and ephemeral environments accumulate costs that few teams track. This post covers how to measure and control them.
A 500ms latency spike in a distributed system could be a slow RDS query, a Lambda cold start, a downstream API timeout, or a CloudWatch Logs ingestion delay. Finding the cause requires correlated logs, traces, and metrics, not grep.
A technical guide to running PHP, Python, and Node.js applications on Amazon ECS in production, covering Fargate vs EC2, FrankenPHP vs Nginx+FPM, multi-container task patterns, zero-downtime deployments, and observability.
Vite 8 (March 2026) ships Rolldown by default. July 2026: Bun install, SWC, CodeBuild cache to cut CI build minutes.
GitHub Actions patterns for AWS workloads in production: OIDC authentication, pinned actions, blue-green deployments, build caching, and the security mistakes that leave your pipeline open to supply chain attacks.
CodePipeline isn't the most loved CI/CD tool, but it talks to every other AWS service natively. Pipeline architecture, CodeBuild configuration, cross-account deploys, and the patterns that ship code safely without bolting on a third-party runner.
Most auto-scaling configs end up reactive: they scale after load hits, not before. This covers the patterns that anticipate demand across EC2, ECS, and Lambda, with the cost trade-offs of target tracking, step scaling, and predictive scaling.
SQS is "reliable" only if you understand visibility timeout, dead-letter queues, and the silent failure mode where messages get processed twice. Standard vs FIFO, DLQ tuning, Lambda integration, and the patterns that make SQS reliable beyond its default settings.
June 30, 2026 added two major CloudFormation/CDK changes: pre-deployment validation on Create/Update and Express mode with up to 4x faster stack operations. This guide covers when to use each in production workflows.
CodePipeline costs a few dollars a month. GitHub Actions costs more at scale than most teams expect. Jenkins is free until you count the team running it. Integration, cost, scalability, and team fit across the three CI/CD options most AWS teams actually choose between.
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