Peter Borghard

Senior ecommerce architect with a penchant for root cause analysis.

Category: automation

automation

Leveraging Ec2 tags

When bringing new ec2 instances online I use a basic set of userdata commands to get our servers ready to accept traffic. Not knowing the state of the userdata scripts can be a problem. I came up with a simple way to determine what’s going on, the last step of the userdata script creates an […]

automation

Service Discovery

For a recent project I was tasked with designing a way for junior engineers to restart services across several nodes in an organized iterative fashion. Since these were legacy applications(not containerized yet) we need to connect to several ec2 instances, issue a restart command and wait for the app to come online before proceeding. In […]