AWS Serverless Framework Authentication and Logging with AWS Cognito Over the past few days, I've spent some time re-assessing the Serverless Framework to see if it can help bootstrap new ventures in a faster way. The Previous VentureIn my last venture for a major Australian bank, we used Auth0 for authentication and a series of Golang microservices on a
serverless Alexa Custom Skill Gotchas with Serverless Framework If you're looking to build a custom skill for Alexa using Serverless because you don't want the hassle of a manual deployment or the other setup fluff you've come to the right place. This will be a list of gotchas that I ran into when working with the Alexa SDK
AWS Creating a Slack Bot with Serverless Framework and AWS Lambda In case you didn't already know, Serverless works with AWS' API Gateway and Lambda functions which does away with the need for infrastructure. There are certainly some limits to it which I won't get into here. But for tasks that take < 5 minutes and things such as building a
AWS Getting GitHub Unified Diff Emails using AWS Lambda and API Gateway I just wanted to share some code to get a unified diff email from GitHub webhooks. The above image is the end result due to my lack of design skills nevertheless the source code is available for those who wish to customize it. The interesting thing about this little interesting
AWS Using AWS Temporary Security Credentials on EC2 with Node.js Applications that run on an EC2 instance must include AWS credentials in their AWS API requests. You could have your developers store AWS credentials directly within the EC2 instance and allow applications in that instance to use those credentials. But developers would then have to manage the credentials and ensure
AWS Deploying a Dockerized Node.js App onto Elastic Beanstalk with TeamCity Setting up a TeamCity deployment pipeline to AWS was a bit tricky so I'm putting it together here in case anyone runs into any issues as well or just need a guideline on how to do it. I won't go into what Docker as there are plenty of tutorials out
AWS Deploying a .NET Web Application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk through TeamCity Deploying to Elastic Beanstalk can be pretty simple if we prepare our AWS environment first. I'm using the Visual Studio AWS Toolkit which you can find in Extensions in Visual Studio. Deploy Using the ToolKit### First we can deploy our application to Beanstalk provided we have the right permissions to
SQL Using AWS Data Pipeline to Export Microsoft SQL Server RDS data to an S3 Bucket I spent the day figuring out how to export some data that's sitting on an AWS RDS instance that happens to be running Microsoft SQL Server to an S3 bucket. After it's in the S3 bucket, it's going to go through Elastic MapReduce (EMR). The provided Data Pipeline templates provided
Scala Running An Apache Spark Application on Amazon Elastic MapReduce This is a series of guided screenshots on how to run an AWS EMR Spark application. Last time we wrote a spark count application that found the list of channels with more than 24 hours of programming. We will run that same application this time on EMR instead of the
