Do More for Less With ECS Fargate!

10 minute lightning talk presented at the AWS Cloud Day Dubai - Sep, 12, 2023.

The idea was to try and convince an audience that Fargate was just as capable a container orchestration platform as any other in town - especially Kubernetes.

1. Do More for Less With ECS Fargate!
2. hello! I’m Ashwin! Senior Engineer - DevOps ARRC, TII, UAE https://cruisemaniac.com | mail@cruisemaniac.com 2
3. ✘ Specialisation in scaling startup tech ✘ 15+ years on AWS ✘ 5 Series-A to Series-B scale-ups ✘ Data center to pure cloud native and the mix ✘ Email, DNS servers ✘ AWS Community Builder - Containers ✘ Opinionated Public speaker - Cloud, Tech, Engg, Org design, Scaling 3
4. 0. Case for Efficient Engg. 4
5. USE 👏 AWS 👏 FARGATE! 5
6. Thank You! 🫡 6
7. 0. Case for Efficient Engg. 7
8. “ Want to help your team see the benefits of running leaner engg stacks! Eng, Ops, Product & Business! 8
9. 1. Lets Dig in… 9
10. “ Customers want more value 10
11. “ Business wants to save on costs 11
12. “ Tech wants to… 12
13. “ Sleep at night… 13
14. “ Tech does not deserve complexity! 14
15. 2. We started computing… 15
16. Servers DETAILS, FACTS, FIGURES Virtualization Scaling 16
18. So we said containers… 18
19. 3. And then… 19
21. What just happened? 🤯 21
22. Dev & Ops now more complex Multiple layers of abstraction Time to market increase Kubernetes made rocket launches look easy! Security issues! Networking overhead DX nightmare 22
23. Recap… 23
24. Provide value to users 24
25. Build efficient engg org 25 Cost, Tech, Effort, RoI
26. Servers are cumbersome 26
27. Kubernetes is complex 27
28. 4. ECS Fargate! 28
29. OCI compliant Compute Run Containers DETAILS, FACTS, FIGURES Fully managed! Simplified arch decisions First Class AWS Integration Same / better performance parity 29
30. Arch 30
31. Cluster Task Definition CPU Architecture (x86_64 / arm64) Service Container Size Desired Counts 31
32. Velocity What color do you want that database? - Dilbert 32
33. Scale What color do you want that database? - Dilbert 33
34. Reliability What color do you want that database? - Dilbert 34
35. Comfort What color do you want that database? - Dilbert 35
36. Peace of Mind What color do you want that database? - Dilbert 36
37. Stats… 37
38. 25 Devs 3 DevOps ~ 50 Deploys per day / IAC with CDK 45% Savings @ 150% YoY growth 15 Devs 2 DevOps ~ 20 Deploys per day 10% Savings MoM Org 1 - Productivity Mgmt Suite. Migrated from Heroku GDPR Compliant Org 3 - EdTech 10mn DAU Video Streaming Git push → Prod ~ 15min 9 Developers 1 DevOps ~ 25 Deploys per day 60% Cost savings over k8s Org 2 - Customer Support S/w 8mn multi-mode convo/mo Microservice arch SOC-2 Type-II compliant 38
39. 39 Community Day UAE 2023 CFPs Open
40. thanks! Any questions? ☕ You can find me at @cruisemaniac mail@cruisemaniac.com 40