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 configure AWS resources using programming…
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AWS CDK MFA
AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client
I have spent some time working with the AWS Elasticsearch Service lately. Regrettably, I found the threshold before being productive was higher than I anticipated. One of my obstacles was…
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AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client
AWS Glue Dev Endpoint Deleter
Development of AWS Glue scripts can potentially add unnecessary expenses to your invoice if you are not careful. This blog post shows one way to avoid some of the cost…
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AWS Glue Dev Endpoint Deleter
AWS CLI MFA
AWS CLI MFA, how about that for title? It translates to Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface Multi Factor Authentication when all acronyms are spelled out. If you have enabled…
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AWS CLI MFA
Introduction to Claudia.js
Serverless architecture and serverless applications are rapidly gaining momentum. In a couple of previous blog posts I have showed simple examples of how RESTful APIs can be deployed using AWS…
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Introduction to Claudia.js
Introduction to Swagger for CloudFormation and API Gateway
When I was writing my previous blog post about Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway, I noticed that CloudFormation also supports Swagger for API Gateway configuration. Curious about what such…
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Introduction to Swagger for CloudFormation and API Gateway
Continuous Deployment of AWS Lambda behind API Gateway
In two previous blog posts I started by introducing scripts for Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda and then I continued to experiment with Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway. This…
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Continuous Deployment of AWS Lambda behind API Gateway
Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway
AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda are part of the Serverless Architecture paradigm shift. The learning curve is steep and for this reason Amazon has a step-by-step tutorial on how…
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Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway
Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda
The quickest way of pushing every code change to production is to use automation, but to do that in a safe and sustainable way also requires test automation. The goal…
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Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda
Route53 configuration for Elastic Beanstalk
The AWS documentation is extensive, yet I find it both incomprehensible and overwhelming from time to time. Recently, I struggled to configure a HostedZoneId in a Route53 AliasTarget targeting an…
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Route53 configuration for Elastic Beanstalk
Custom Resource for Generating Lambdas
AWS Lambda enables you to quickly setup a backend solution for your mobile application. AWS CloudFormation allows you to create templates for your infrastructure that can be versioned controlled. When…
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Custom Resource for Generating Lambdas
Working Efficiently with Gradle Modules
Gradle has the ability to check if a task is up to date and more importantly skip the task if it finds that the task input is unchanged compared to…
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Working Efficiently with Gradle Modules
Reusing Spring Boot’s Dependency Management
If you develop a Spring Boot application and are using Gradle, you have already used the Spring Boot Gradle plugin. It serves several different purposes such as packaging your project…
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Reusing Spring Boot’s Dependency Management
Scaling out with Spring Session
Stateless architecture has become increasingly popular during resent years and for good reasons. However, stateful session based applications continue to play an important role, for example when issuing CSRF tokens…
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Scaling out with Spring Session
jUnit @Rule and Spring Caches
If you have worked a while with jUnit you may have seen jUnit Rules. Simply put, a field in a test class annotated with @Rule is a class that lets…
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jUnit @Rule and Spring Caches