Projen is a tool that streamlines managing AWS CDK projects by automating tasks like file generation and dependency management. It allows developers to focus on infrastructure code instead of project setup. By following specific commands, users can create projects, configure repositories, and publish packages to npm and GitHub.
Firstly I’m a huge fan of AWS CDK for all different scale projects. I use it for projects that start at 1or 2 API’s and services to hundreds. So, what is it? AWS CDK or the Cloud Development Kit is… Read More ›
When creating the Simple Web Service in the CDK we got an output that was API Gateways unique random domain. This is not a useful domain for a production system as we often want to place the API’s behind a… Read More ›
The Simple Web Service is one of the best simple patterns that you will often see in a serverless architecture. Coined by Jeremy Daly – https://www.jeremydaly.com/serverless-microservice-patterns-for-aws/#simplewebservice this stack is a great one to build for a fundamental web application. The… Read More ›
DynamoDB, AWS’s fast, flexible NoSQL serverless database service that provides single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, has many useful built-in features. In this article we are going to look at how the Time to Live (TTL) feature can be enable… Read More ›
Want to know what your daily spend is on AWS but don’t want to have to log into the console every day? Aws costs to slack is what you need! This project is built from the simple Lambda Scheduler and… Read More ›
I recently have been playing around with some tools for monitoring websites but with these tools they can be an unnecessary expense for a start-up. So, I went and built my own monitoring stack in AWS CDK to monitor if… Read More ›
In this post I’ll show you how to create a scheduled Fargate task, in this case a locally developed node js Docker container that can push items to DynamoDB on a 1-minute timer. Checkout the Video version A simpler architecture… Read More ›
In the following we will create a CloudFront, s3 with lambda@edge based website. AWS is not free and you may be charged for services used. So, I got through a renewal email for some hosting I had with GoDaddy and… Read More ›
Infrastructure as code or IaC has recently become a huge topic in the software world. No longer do we live in a monolithic application world that’s only made up of a couple of huge legacy components that changes only a… Read More ›
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