• AWS Ruby SDK and my confusion with portMappings

    When you use the AWS Ruby SDK to register your ECS task definition files you maybe struggle with the same error I struggled around. ArgumentError: unexpected value at params[:container_definitions][0]["portMappings"] The same error message was also returned when I tried to define mountPoints. The short answer is that the AWS Ruby...


  • How to run HuBot in Docker on AWS EC2 Container Services - Part 2

    In part 1 I explained how to run HuBot inside a Docker container. Now I’ll show you how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline in order to deploy docker images automatically to AWS EC2 Container Services (ECS). A couple of days after I wrote the previous post ECS became...


  • How to run HuBot in Docker on AWS EC2 Container Services - Part 1

    It all began when I was too lazy to check the website of our local canteen to find out todays lunch menu. Ok, it’s only a couple of clicks and not actual “work” but hey… I have already played around with HuBot in the past and I’m also very excited...


  • Impressions from QCon San Francisco 2014

    This year AutoScout24 was generous again to let me go to QCon Conference in San Francisco. The overall topic was “Software is changing the world”. Let me share my impressions with you. ##Location After 2012 this is the second time I went to QCon in San Francisco. The conference is...


  • My Road to Microservices

    At the moment there is a big hype about microservices. Especially since Martin Fowler wrote an article about it. Also for AutoScout24 it´s a big topic. Not because of the hype but our history. Let me tell you my experience over the last couple of years… ###Monolith When I started...