Description: Technical Notebook.
Containers are all the rage these days and for good reason. They offer a significant leap forward in software development in terms of convenience and environment stability. Although not the only available option for containers, docker has emerged as the de facto. While there is no shortage of articles about getting containers up and running, there doesn’t seem to be much written about gracefully terminating containers.
Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer , or ELB service, provides load balancing for Amazon’s EC2 instances. If you are new to Amazon’s ELB service, it provides high availability for your web services and also provides trusted SSL certificates for no additional charge through Amazon’s Certificate Manager .
I am starting a new project and was in search of a database that was easy to setup, has a solid query language, and is easy to integrate into my codebase. In my search, I came across RethinkDB . Having worked with other document stores in past projects, namely MongoDB and CouchDB , RethinkDB has two features that caught my eye for this particular project: joins and changefeeds. In this project, some of the data is relational, so having join support built into a document database is a welcome feature. The ch