Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringMonitoring thousands of RabbitMQ queues with DatadogThe built-in RabbitMQ check included with Datadog doesn’t work well when RabbitMQ has a lot of queues; in our experience, at 10,000+…3 min read·Nov 24, 2020--1--1
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringLoad balanced PgBouncer service on Amazon ECSPgBouncer is a great tool for pooling database connections and keeping connection logic in one place. With a Network Load Balancer and…4 min read·Oct 3, 2018----
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringRenaming a consul datacenterThis is simple enough to do, but requires the entire cluster to be taken offline for a short time. The KV store and ACL tokens will remain…1 min read·Jul 7, 2017----
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringRunning an interactive console on Amazon ECSRunning and attaching to an interactive console on Amazon ECS is just a bit clunky. The simplest option is to SSH into a container instance…4 min read·Jun 13, 2017--5--5
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringRendering arbitrary content with VarnishExample scenario: you use Varnish, and have some misbehaving third-party JS which is currently spamming your server with 404s for…1 min read·May 3, 2017----
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringHow to use Amazon EFS with EC2 containersUsing EFS (Elastic File Storage) is a natural fit for ECS (EC2 Container Service) if you have any data you want to persist across…3 min read·May 2, 2017----
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringUsing Docker and OverlayFS on Amazon ECSIf you’re using the ECS-optimised Amazon Linux AMI for your ECS instance hosts, the Docker engine on these instances will be using the…1 min read·May 2, 2017----