A modern web page does a lot of things, hence the term web application has become more commonly used over the last year. A consequence of this is that we are crafting widgets and entire modules using JavaScript, or at least in some language that eventually ends up being “compiled” to JavaScript.
Where there is code there should also be tests. And the tests need to go green every time the code is changed. You are testing your client side code, right?
While waiting for a new project, I wanted to learn something useful. And because on many projects we need to assess and test the performance of the application being developed while only rarely there is enough hardware for generating a realistic load, I decided to learn more about provisioning virtual machines on demand in the Cloud, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS). I’ve learned a lot about the tools available to work with AWS and the automation of the setup of resources (machine instances, security groups, databases etc.) and automatic customization of virtual machine instances in the AWS cloud. I’d like to present a brief introduction into AWS and a succinct overview of the tools and automation options. If you are familiar with AWS/EC2 then you might want to jump over the introduction directly to the automation section.
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