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Medellín, Colombia Travel Guide

Following our weekend in Bogotá we flew straight to Medellín with Avianca, the national airlines. While it’s technically possible to drive to Medellín, all guides and locals suggested flying. We landed in Medellin and took a quick, cheap Uber to the hotel. We were staying at the Marriott Medellin which is located in the El […]

Check HTTP Service is running after CodeDeploy

I have been using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy code from a private GitHub repository to a EC2 server. As part of the deployment, I wanted to check that the deployment was sucessful, by validating there was a HTTP 200 OK response from the server. As part of the deployment, the web server and application server are both […]