the "best" infra i ever had was a gig where we * built a jar (it was a jvm shop) * put it on a docker image * put that on an ami * then had a regular aws lo

the "best" infra i ever had was a gig where we * built a jar (it was a jvm shop) * put it on a docker image * put that on an ami * then had a regular aws load balancer that just combined the ami with the correctly specced (for each service) ec2 instances to cope with load it was SIMPLE + it meant we could super easily spin up the previous version ami + ec2s in case of any issues on deploys (in fact, when deploying, we could keep the previous ones running and just repoint the load balancer to them) ps putting the jar on a docker image was arguably unnecessary, we did it mostly to avoid "it works on my machine" style problems