AWS Node.js + AWS Secrets Manager: Encryption Lessons and Insights My team recently ran into a few issues when decrypting and storing secrets in AWS Secrets Manager. Here’s what I learned.
AWS Encrypt Per-User Data with AWS Secrets Manager and KMS I'll share a strategy for using AWS Secrets Manager and KMS to encrypt and decrypt secret data using one key per user.
AWS Aurora MySQL 8 Upgrade: Using the AWS Blue/Green Style Upgrade database with AWS RDS going from Aurora MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 using Blue/Green deployment. No downtime. No more RDS Extended Support.
Atomic Thinking, Developer Tools Navigating the Differences Between MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB in Practice I hit a few snags while developing against MongoDB locally and deploying to AWS DocumentDB. Here is what I discovered.
Platforms & Languages A Survey of Cloud AI and Machine Learning Platforms Here's an overview of three Generative AI and Machine Learning Platforms: Azure, Databricks, and Amazon Bedrock.
AWS Improve Feature Flagging with AWS AppConfig Feature flags are essential parts of continuous delivery. Here is why my software development team chose AWS AppConfig to meet our needs.
AWS Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with AWS I researched a script that prompts a user for an MFA token in AWS if it’s needed and sets a temporary user session in the credentials file.
AWS Get VPN Access into Your AWS VPC with Tailscale Forget complicated VPN solutions. You can use Tailscale to access resources in your AWS VPC ridiculously easily with this Terraform module.
AWS AWS Lambda: Trap or Treasure for API Backends? Is it a good idea to use AWS Lambda as the compute behind an API? Or do the vast array of Lambda-based API examples lay a scaling trap for developers?
AWS How to Create a Scheduled Lambda in AWS CDK This tutorial shows you how to run a lambda on a schedule. While scheduled lambdas are powerful, they are best used in executing repeated tasks.
Developer Tools Migrate Your Heroku PostgreSQL Database to AWS RDS Over time, Heroku add-ons may not fit your needs. I’ll share how I was able to successfully complete a migration from Heroku PostgreSQL to RDS.
AWS AWS Remote Database Management Without SSH When it comes to AWS remote database management, if you can't install the agent directly on the private host, you can set up a bastion running the agent.
