Topic for today: Containers on AWS. Lambda is great until it isn't. Picking up containers so we know when to step up from serverless and how to actually run something.
- ECS vs EKS vs Fargate — when to pick which, and what each one really costs to operate
- Writing a Dockerfile for a Python service / agent — slim images, multi-stage builds
- Task definitions, services, and ALB integration on ECS
- Autoscaling — target tracking vs step scaling, scaling on custom metrics
- Running agents and MCP servers in containers — long-lived state, websockets, gotchas
- punith.md — Agentic AI angle on the topics
- chandana.md — AWS angle on the topics
Tracking issue: #6