"Logging in" to AWS ECS Fargate

I’m a big fan of AWS ECS Fargate. I’ve written in the past about managing ECS clusters, and with Fargate – all of that work disappears and is managed by AWS instead. I like to refer to this as quasi-serverless. Sorta-serverless? Almost-serverless? I’m open to better suggestions. 😂 There are a few limitations of running in Fargate, and this blog post will focus on working around one limitation: there’s easy way to get an interactive command line shell within a running Fargate container.

The AppleLanguages switch (langchooser.app)

March 26, 2013

In the past few weeks, I’ve found myself demonstrating how to do things on my computer for other people. You know, screenshots, screencasts, the like. I ran into a small problem: Most of the people I need to teach don’t understand English. And my default user interface is in English. So, I ran into this little trick: $ [path to app]/Contents/MacOS/[app name] -AppleLanguages '([language code])' That little bit of Terminal