http://tylerkontra.com/categories/devops/ Recent content in Devops on Tyler M Kontra Hugo en Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:08:27 -0400 http://tylerkontra.com/posts/quantum-bookmark-aws-deployment/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:08:27 -0400 http://tylerkontra.com/posts/quantum-bookmark-aws-deployment/ <h1 id="quantum-bookmark-enterprise-grade-link-saving">Quantum Bookmark: Enterprise-Grade Link Saving</h1> <p>I built Quantum Bookmark Platform to get some Rust and AWS deployment practice. It is a tiny bookmark manager: save a URL, it goes into a queue to capture metadata such as the page title, description, and favicon. Try it out: <a href="https://bookmark.tylerkontra.com">bookmark.tylerkontra.com</a></p> <p>I started with ECS Fargate, an Application Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, WAF, DynamoDB, and SQS. It worked. Then I noticed I had built infrastructure costing roughly <code>$105-$125/mo</code> for an app that would likely sit idle most of&hellip;forever.</p>