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Create an AWS CloudWatch Metric Filter and Alarm in Terraform

In this tutorial, we'll walk through the basics of AWS CloudWatch metric filters and alarms with examples of how to create both in Terraform.

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Using Vercel for CI and CD to Support Team Collaboration

Vercel is great as both a CI tool and a hosting solution, and it's helped us bring more of the team into the pull request and feature delivery process.

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Getting Out of Tricky Terraform Situations

Terraform works most of the time, but sometimes it goes wrong. Here are a few situations we've seen in our AWS deployment and how we made it through.

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Troubleshooting 3 AWS CodeCommit Config “Gotchas”

Cloning, configuring, and working with a CodeCommit repository can be surprisingly difficult. Here are some common “gotchas” and how you can avoid them.

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Using WebSockets in AWS to Stream DynamoDB Updates

Building WebSocket APIs to stream events in AWS is straightforward. I was able to utilize WebSockets to stream DynamoDB changes on one of my projects.

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Creating and Using a Local NuGet Package

What a NuGet Package is, how to create one, where to add it locally, and how to consume it from a NuGet feed. This will allow you to quickly create and test your NuGet packages loc

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How to Use TypeORM with Webpack

TypeORM and Webpack don't play together nicely out of the box. But with a little bit of webpack magic and conditionals, they can be used together.

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A Simple Approach to Complicated Database Defaults

Database tables rarely stay the same over the course of a project. Here is a simple pattern for migrating data into non-nullable columns.

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Best Practices for Managing AWS Configuration with Multiple Sets of Credentials

With these simple principles, I'm able to easily use AWS across multiple accounts and regions on both the web and command line.

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AWS Cloudwatch and PagerDuty Integration

How to integrate PagerDuty with AWS Cloudwatch. They're very powerful tools to use in unison with each other.

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Migrating Data Structures in DynamoDB

The key patterns my team uses to migrate data structures in DynamoDB, plus a demonstration of some basic usages in a NodeJS environment.

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How to Encrypt Your Existing AWS S3 Objects

AWS S3 lets you add server-side encryption for all new objects, but what if you need to encrypt a bucket full of unencrypted objects?

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