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DevOps & System Admin.

How to Fix an Incorrect AWS CLI Timestamp Format

Timestamps in your CodeBuild somehow are getting returned in the Unix Epoch format? It's possible you may need to set the AWS CLI timestamp to iso 8601.

Platforms & Languages

Running NodeJS Scripts in AWS Fargate

Sometimes NodeJS scripts take minutes or hours, to run. I’ve been using AWS Fargate to run these longer running NodeJS scripts in the cloud.

DevOps & System Admin.

Building a Full-Stack AWS Serverless Architecture, Part 2: Backend Services

This is the second of a two-part series on considerations for building full-stack serverless mobile or web applications on AWS.

DevOps & System Admin.

Building a Full-Stack AWS Serverless Architecture, Part 1: Frontend Services

This is the first of a two-part series on considerations for architecting full-stack serverless mobile or web applications on AWS.

DevOps & System Admin.

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.

DevOps & System Admin.

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.

DevOps & System Admin.

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.

DevOps & System Admin.

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.

DevOps & System Admin.

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?

DevOps & System Admin.

LocalStack + Terraform + CircleCI for Lambda without AWS

Can you provision, develop, and test your lambda functions without access to AWS? We're doing it by combining LocalStack, Terraform, and CircleCI.

DevOps & System Admin.

Updating AWS Lambda Function Code when Local Files Change

How to use "make" to update AWS Lambda layer and AWS Lambda function configuration and code whenever local files change.

TypeScript

How We Built a Scrappy Curriculum Editor using VSCode, TypeScript, and AWS Lambda

Our document-driven app needed a great authoring tool. We built one in record time using TypeScript, Visual Studio Code, and AWS Lambda.