Serverless Twilio Dictionary
I recently started working at Twilio, a communications company that enables services like voice, text, chat and video globally through APIs. As part of the o...
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EventBridge and EC2 Spot Instances
In a recent project, we were using AWS EC2 Spot instances as part of our cloud test environment. A good solution which catered for cost savings, but as expec...
Automating Dependency Updates
Updating project dependencies is a task that is often neglected, especially in legacy projects that are “done” and just work without changes. It is easy to u...
AWS CDK MFA
The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a welcome contribution to the “Infrastructure as Code” family. It is a development framework that allows you to config...
AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client
Blog post that shows how an AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client can be implemented in addition to an example of an AWS Elasticsearch IAM policy implementation.
AWS Glue Dev Endpoint Deleter
Blog post that describes how you can decrease the costs associated with AWS Glue developer endpoint by implementing an AWS Lambda function that deletes them ...
AWS CLI MFA
Blog post that describes how you can use a CloudFormation Template and AWS CLI profiles to enforce MFA for AWS CLI users.
Introduction to Claudia.js
Introduction to the Claudia.js deployment tool for AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway. Some basic installation guides and a simple code example is provided.
Introduction to Swagger for CloudFormation and API Gateway
Blog post that outlines how Swagger can be used to configure an AWS API Gateway backed by an AWS Lambda function.
Continuous Deployment of AWS Lambda behind API Gateway
Blog about how bash scripts can be used for continuous deployment of an AWS Lambda that is behind an API Gateway. Contains links to GitHub sample project.