Archive - Pods & Pixels

Running Stateful ML Workloads in EKS with Persistent Volumes on Amazon FSx for Lustre

Modern machine learning pipelines demand not only powerful compute resources but also exceptionally fast access to large volumes of data.

Feb 5 • Christopher Adamson

Advanced Traffic Shaping and Failure Recovery

You’ve now automated canary deployments using Flagger, AWS App Mesh, Helm, and GitHub Actions, with full observability via Prometheus and Grafana.

Feb 4 • Christopher Adamson

Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Flagger Metrics

No canary deployment strategy is complete without robust observability.

Feb 3 • Christopher Adamson

CI/CD Pipeline Integration (GitHub Actions + Helm)

With your EKS cluster, App Mesh, and Flagger all wired up for automated canary deployments, the next step is to integrate this system into a CI/CD…

Feb 2 • Christopher Adamson

January 2026

Deploying a Sample Application with Canary Routing

Now that your EKS cluster, App Mesh controller, and Flagger are ready, it’s time to deploy a real workload and configure it for automated canary…

Jan 30 • Christopher Adamson

Automated Canary Deployments on Amazon EKS using Flagger and AWS App Mesh

Deploying new versions of applications without introducing regressions is a constant challenge.

Jan 29 • Christopher Adamson

Hybrid Mesh and Disaster Recovery Strategies

In this final part, we’ll take your cross-cluster service mesh to the next level by extending the mesh to hybrid environments, including on-premises…

Jan 28 • Christopher Adamson

Enabling Cross-Cluster Routing and Observability

Now that our services are communicating across clusters using App Mesh and Cloud Map, it’s time to elevate the setup with production-grade features…

Jan 27 • Christopher Adamson

Deploying Mesh-Aware Services in Multiple Clusters

With our EKS clusters, App Mesh controllers, and Cloud Map namespace in place, it’s time to deploy actual services into the mesh.

Jan 26 • Christopher Adamson

Bootstrapping EKS Clusters and App Mesh Configuration

Now that we’ve covered the architecture and key components, it’s time to get hands-on.

Jan 23 • Christopher Adamson

Error Handling, Retry Strategies, and Parallel Execution

Enhance your Step Function workflow to handle real-world failure scenarios gracefully and execute multiple tasks concurrently.

Jan 21 • Christopher Adamson

Handling Asynchronous Tasks and External Integrations

Now we’ll enable your Step Function workflow to handle long-running, external, or human-in-the-loop tasks using asynchronous patterns.

Jan 20 • Christopher Adamson

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