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Create your first Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS

September 13, 2022 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Create an ALB in AWS

In this post, you’ll learn the key steps to create your first Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS.

ALB is used to distribute the incoming traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances — thereby providing single entry point to your applications. It works on Layer 7 (application layer) and provide additional functions like routing, health checks etc. You can read more about ALB in the official AWS documentation.

Here are the key steps to create your first ALB.

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Filed Under: Cloud, Tech Tagged With: alb, aws, cloud, learnaws, load balancer

Create your first NFT with Smart Contract

August 21, 2022 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

In recent times, I spend most of my personal coding time with Smart Contracts. One useful resource on the internet is Road to Web3 course from folks at Alchemy.

You can follow their tutorial here to create your first smart contract and mint an NFT with it.

I am outlining the steps in this post — I suggest you to use this as a guide to using the tutorial from Web3 University.

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Filed Under: Blockchain, Tech Tagged With: blockchain, nft, smart contract

Event-driven Systems

July 16, 2021 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Off late, I deal with event-driven systems and real-time data at work. It is a completely different paradigm with its own patterns — especially for someone coming from a request/response world.

In this post, I will give you an overview of these systems and value they bring to the table.

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Filed Under: Enterprise, Tech Tagged With: enterprise, event driven, tech

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