In today’s connected world, billions of devices generate vast amounts of data every second — from industrial sensors to smart home devices. Sending all that data to the cloud for processing can be slow, expensive, and sometimes impractical. This is… Read More ›
DevOps
AWS Innovations 2025: AI Tools and Infrastructure Updates
As we navigate through 2025, AWS continues to push the boundaries of cloud computing, introducing a suite of services and enhancements that cater to developers, AI enthusiasts, and infrastructure architects alike. Here’s a curated overview of the most impactful AWS… Read More ›
Use Projen to deploy custom packages to AWS CDK
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.
Why Use AWS CDK?
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 ›
Creating a Lambda Warmer with AWS CDK and TypeScript
In this guide, we’ll create an AWS Lambda function that acts as a “warmer” to keep another Lambda function warm, reducing cold start times. We’ll use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and TypeScript. Prerequisites Ensure you have the following… Read More ›
AWS CDK – API Gateway Custom Domain
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 in AWS CDK
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 ›
Catch DynamoDB TTL Events
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 ›
AWS CDK Costs to Slack
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 ›
AWS CDK Lambda Scheduler Write to DynamoDB
The following stack will be a simple example of a triggered schedular that will call a lambda function that writes to a DynamoDB table. The stack, seen below, contains 3 main elements. Starting at the bottom; The first element comes… Read More ›