Generic software development is often described as a game of execution. You get a requirement, you write the code, you pass the tests, and you deploy. In the era of high-speed delivery and AI-assisted coding, we have become remarkably good at the “building” part of the process. But as the complexity of our systems grows […]

AWS ECS, which stands for Elastic Container Service is an orchestration tool for containerized workloads in the AWS cloud. At the moment of writing, ECS is almost 5 years old so the core functionality of the service is familiar to the cloud community. The auto-scaling of this service could be sometimes not straightforward. However, recent […]

At Appliscale, we believe that continuous learning is fundamental to technical excellence and leadership. To kick off our new series, we went straight to the top and asked our CTO & Co-founder, Konrad Kaplita, to share the books that have most profoundly influenced his personal approach to engineering, management, and scaling an organization. This list is […]