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 ›
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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 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. Checkout the Video version A simpler architecture… 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 ›
GitOps
So what is GitOps you may ask? Firstly, I wouldn’t say that GitOps is a particularly new concept. GitOps is more of a re-badging of some existing processes that are combined together. The main idea behind GitOps is that it… Read More ›
AWS CDK – True infrastructure as code
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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