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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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