aws-node-termination-handler VS find-my-way

When you are using compute you have a lot of options. One of these options is Amazon EC2. In a world where more and more workloads become serverless. You might still have this use-case that is better off on EC2. But, how do you combine EC2 with compliance and security? In this blog post we will explore how we can build a compliant and secure EC2 stack.

In this article, a WEB application using the latest version of Angular in a built Docker image will be hosted on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and deployed by Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) using an Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) containers repository.

The single most important development in hosting since the invention of EC2 is defined by its own 3-letter acronym: k8s. Kubernetes has won the “container orchestrator” space, becoming the default way that teams across industries are managing their compute nodes and scheduling their workloads, from data pipelines to web services.

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Then in 2020, I started working with AWS. My first two years with AWS were mostly interacting with the Node.js apps I've deployed in EC2 and reviewing logs since we had a DevOps engineer who managed the cloud infrastructure.

If you want to learn more about EC2 and get detailed information, I suggest you start your journey by visiting https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/. This is the best place to begin learning about EC2.

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Say that we have an application running behind a public-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). The load balancer's target can be any supported target, including ECS containers, EC2 instances or even Lambda functions. Because the application is only available to authenticated users, we want to find a solution to identify them.

Although I'll use Lambda functions in the examples, we can transfer the concepts to other compute resources, like EC2 instances, and ECS or EKS containers.

Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2)

I found libraries in other programming languages that use this approach : matchit (Rust), find-my-way (Javascript), fasthttp (Go) But, curiously, no one in PHP. That's why I decided to bring my contribution to have the same approach in PHP.

Looking at the benchmarks, Fastify is the clear winner among other Nodejs frameworks. It has faster routing, JSON handling with faster rendering and a bunch of ready-made plugins.