Production Kubernetes with SQL DB on AWS

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Kubernetes has been the platform of choice for Container Orchestration for years now. Amazon, despite being the industry leading Cloud Provider only released Kubernetes as a Service in 2018. In this post I will explain how a Kubernetes Cluster can be created using command line on Amazon. The source code for this post can be found here. Note that you need to know AWS and Kubernetes fairly well as I will only cover certain sections sparingly.

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Stuck @ Home | Video Games 2 Play

Have you been stuck at home for the past few week and you have now started to question your existence? Are you tired of watching TV all day? Are you bored to death? Don’t fret…!!! Cheer up…!!! Let’s find out the best video games you can play during the quarantine.

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CloudFormation Template for a WordPress Blog

Let’s first get these things out of the way. This CloudFormation Template is for a Personal Blog. The primary objective of this exercise is minimizing the cost. Therefore you will not see any RDS instances or Multi AZ deployments. Everything will be installed on a single EC2 instance to keep the costs low. If you are concerned about losing data, take Snapshots frequently so that you can restore from a Snapshot if a disaster strikes.

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Overriding Primary Key Generation Strategy in JPA + Liquibase

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How do you write a Spring Boot backend which supports all the SQL databases known to mankind. I’m just kidding. I have only tried this with H2, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle in one single application.

I am sure by now you are familiar with how Version Control works. A Version Control like Git will help you keep track of your source code. How do you keep track of your database changes the same way you track your source code?

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