Introduction

Defining a correct infrastructure for each project is important to assure reliability, good performance and scalability in the application. Choosing a wrong infrastructure can bring problems in a production environment.

Sophilabs recommends host your application in Amazon infrastructure and use containerization.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services provides a set of scalable and reliable services that help you to host and monitor your web applications. Amazon provides solutions to:

• Compute
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon Lambda
• Storage
  • Amazon S3
• Database
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Aurora
• Cache
  • Amazon ElasticCache
• Load Balancing
  • Amazon Load Balancers
• Monitoring
  • Amazon CloudWatch

Containerization

Using Containerization is important to isolate your web application server and database.

For example, a simple web application can use 3 containers.

• A Frontend Server, which hosts a javascript application and makes calls to a Backend Server to do any operation with the system.
• A Backend Server, which exposes an API for operating with the system.
• A Database Server to store persistent data, using PostgreSQL or another database engine of your choice.

Docker

When we talk about containerization, the name Docker immediately comes to mind.

Even though there are many containerization solutions, Docker is the most popular and is used in many production environments. The development community has come to the consensus that Docker is the most reliable containerization technology.