Introduction Serverless computing is a new way of building and running applications. It promises to reduce cost, improve speed and simplify maintenance, making it easier for developers to build better apps faster. Reduce cost and increase speed There are a… Read More ›

DevOps
Out with the old in with the new
This is still in progress but the new menu service is now in place and the old title bar is gone and has started to be replaced by a more modern looking sidebar.
ezConsole – The AWS Desktop Management Tool
So, some actual progress on productizing my AWS Desktop Management tool called ezConsole this week. For a little while now I have had the task on my ClickUp board to build out the infrastructure deployment pipeline for the landing page…. Read More ›
Full Ahead ezConsole
The collection of applications I have been working on recently is coming together to create an application called ezConsole. ezConsole will be a very handy desktop application specifically designed to work with AWS. ezConsole can be thought of as a… Read More ›
Setting Minimum Protocol Version for HttpsRedirect in CDK
To change the minimum protocol version when using Https redirect route 53 patterns you must first find the RedirectDistribution and then in that the defaultChild then you can add a poroperty override for the DistributionConfig.ViewerCertificate.MinimumProtocolVersion property, setting the tls version…. Read More ›
AWS Stack Manager App
The AWS Stack Manager app is almost ready. The only major work left is user management so I can start distributing the app and manage app licences and some UI/UX styling. This is a guide to using this simple AWS… Read More ›
AWS CDK Fargate Schedular Write to DynamoDB
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. A simpler architecture can be developed using… Read More ›
What is serverless computing?
Today you will hear a lot of talk about serverless architectures but what really is serverless? To start with, it’s worth mentioning that serverless computing, despite its name, is not the removing of servers from the distribution of applications. Serverless… Read More ›
Deploying a site to AWS with the CDK
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 ›
How to install Microsoft Teams on Linux
Most people would agree that Linux is a great tool for us developers and overall, it’s probably the best operating system for software development. With the way the industry works today we often use direct messenger tools to communicate with… Read More ›