Until now this blog and the FPLWrapper service had been hosted on the same EC2 instance. This included Nginx to sit in front of them as a proxy: This obviously wasn’t scalable and could end up being a real pain to redeploy whenever I made any changes. On the other hand, using a more extensive set of AWS services enables me to scale out simpler, automate some operational tasks and only pay for the compute power I use. Read more

It can be hard to find job vacancies online that haven’t already been filled. Whilst some job listing sites let you register to receive alerts when new roles are posted, not all sites provide this feature. This led me to search for a service that can email you screenshots of a website at a scheduled interval. I had trouble finding one for free and this got me thinking about how a service like this would work both on a single machine and scaled out into a distributed system. Read more