HealthKit + Celery on ECS, Part 3: Deploying Workers to Fargate
One Docker image, two ECS services, an SQS queue with IAM auth, and the Django settings crash that blocks every first Celery deploy.
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HealthKit + Celery on ECS, Part 2: The Sync Pipeline
A chunk-based import pipeline with SQS, dispatcher tasks that chain through the queue, fingerprint deduplication, and why we track batch state in PostgreSQL ...
HealthKit + Celery on ECS, Part 1: Why Background Processing Changes Everything
You can’t process Apple HealthKit data inline. Here’s why we needed Celery with SQS, how Redis fits in separately for caching, and the architecture that emer...
Celery on ECS: Separate Container Architecture
A visual deep-dive into running Celery workers as separate ECS containers — broker topology, task lifecycle, concurrency models, and the Beat scheduler gotcha.
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Hello World — Why I’m Starting This Blog
After 14 years of building software, I’m finally writing about it.
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Building a Markdown-First Citation Pipeline for an AI Health Agent
How I replaced inline URL citations with a token-based reference system that separates machine semantics from user-visible text — and why the old approach wa...