Eric Holmes from Remind discussed building an internal Platform as a Service (PaaS) called Empire using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Remind started on Heroku but encountered issues with scaling and visibility. Empire provides a management layer on top of ECS for deploying and scaling microservices. It implements a subset of the Heroku API and provides a single binary and CLI. Emp
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