AWS's startup program blog on Medium offers practical guidance on cloud hiring, Docker, API security, high availability, and fundraising.
HN commenters call the series helpful and link it for DevOps hiring questions, running Docker on ECS, and the case against Lambda for sandboxing.
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Why the don't use Lambda: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/sandboxing-code-in-the-era-of-containers-294edb3a674#.ioqmc0ddn
... hile we were at it, AWS announced AWS Lambda, which looked like a potential remedy to our challenge. Upon further investigation, however, it became clear AWS Lambda is centered on an asynchronous programming model that did not quite meet our needs. The custom logic we run in Auth0 is an RPC logic: it accepts inputs and must return outputs at low latency. Given the asynchronous model of AWS Lambda, implementing such logic would require polling for the results of the computation, which would adversely affect latency...
Looks like this is a little closer to what you're looking for I think: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/running-services-using-docker-and-amazon-ec2-container-service-bde16b099cb9#.fhj8j5rj9
Here's a good article about hiring a DevOps:
https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/hiring-a-cloud-engineer-questions-to-ask-and-what-you-should-hear-12a960d97163
I found this series very helpful: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog