Perry Street Software, a company behind popular LGBTQ+ dating apps, implemented resilient deployment strategies using Amazon ECS, enabling canary deployments for incremental rollouts, leveraging AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD pipelines, and utilizing containerization for consistency across environments.

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<p>This article discusses Perry Street Software's implementation of resilient deployment strategies with Amazon ECS to simplify their code deployment process while maintaining their existing deployment workflow.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Perry Street Software's history and goals for modernizing their deployment process</li>
<li>Their evaluation of Amazon EKS vs Amazon ECS for container orchestration</li>
<li>Amazon ECS deployment strategies (blue/green, rolling) and their limitations</li>
<li>Perry Street Software's solution using AWS CodePipeline, manual approvals, and a low-capacity ECS service for canary deployments</li>
<li>Implementation details, including tag immutability, Terraform integration, and future enhancements</li>
<li>Benefits of the new CI/CD process, such as faster deployments, consistency across environments, and improved security controls</li>
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