Amazon's newest hosting service, App Runner, makes it fairly easy to deploy web services. In this episode, we take a look at some of the issues with App Runner as well as how we can deploy a Docker container image to the service. We also dive into building Docker images from an Apple M1 computer and pushing to Elastic Container Registry.

Continuing on from the previous episode, we look at creating a Docker Swarm cluster and using Traefik to load balance and route requests to various applications. Using this and CloudFlare proxies, we're able to create and deploy hobby applications in minutes.

Ever wonder how some companies implement rate limiting based on the plan that you've signed up for? In this episode, we'll use Docker Hub as a case study and implement this feature within our Rails application. We'll do this by creating a custom Rack Middleware to track and throttle the requests.

Continuing from the previous episode, we look at speeding up the build times with a remote builder, continued warning about accessories, implementing background jobs, setting up the infrastructure for background workers and diving more into the Kamal (MRSK) commands.

Sending out emails is an important for of communication in our Rails applications. In this episode, we look at creating a local smtp relay with a web frontend to view the emails sent from our Rails application.