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AWS CDK MFA

Post published:March 23, 2020
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / JavaScript / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
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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…

API Chain using IFTTT and AWS Services – Knattra 2018

Post published:January 22, 2019
Post Author:Hugo Hjerten
Post Category:Cloud / Events / IoT / Other
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We hosted a hackathon where the participants created an API chain using IFTTT, with an infrastructure based on some AWS services. Checkout the aftermovie! Knattra - The Hackathon Under the…

Speech recognition using Google Dialogflow

Post published:October 29, 2018
Post Author:Adam Tibbing
Post Category:.Net / Architecture / Cloud / IoT
Post Comments:1 Comment

Following the recent release of Google Home in Swedish, I have been exploring how speech recognition in Swedish can be leveraged in various applications. In September 2016, Google acquired a…

Understanding Istio Ingress Gateway in Kubernetes

Post published:October 22, 2018
Post Author:Anders Janmyr
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Other
Post Comments:15 Comments

Traditionally, Kubernetes has used an Ingress controller to handle the traffic that enters the cluster from the outside. When using Istio, this is no longer the case. Istio has replaced…

Face recognition with AWS and Android Things

Post published:September 27, 2018
Post Author:Henriksson Fredrik
Post Category:Android / Cloud / IoT
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This blog post is part 2 in our series about Wallace, our four wheeled, Android Things on an RPi3 powered company house robot. You can find the first part of…

AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

Post published:September 11, 2018
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / JavaScript
Post Comments:13 Comments

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…

DIY “Face ID” door lock using AWS Rekognition

Post published:August 24, 2018
Post Author:Gustaf Nilklint
Post Category:Cloud / Embedded / IoT / Other
Post Comments:10 Comments

DIY "Face ID" I recently started to learn and explore the services at AWS, and the face recognition service seemed particularly interesting. In this post I want to share with…

AWS Glue Dev Endpoint Deleter

Post published:July 3, 2018
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:4 Comments

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…

AWS CLI MFA

Post published:November 22, 2017
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:6 Comments

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…

Microsoft Build 2017 – Day 1 – Chat bots and AI

Post published:May 11, 2017
Post Author:Per-Olof Bondesson
Post Category:.Net / Cloud / Events
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First day of build is now over. One thing is for sure, it sure was a lot more focused than previous years. If, Chat-bots, IoT, machine learning and cloud catches…

Introduction to Claudia.js

Post published:November 6, 2016
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud
Post Comments:3 Comments

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…

Introduction to Swagger for CloudFormation and API Gateway

Post published:September 18, 2016
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:9 Comments

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…

Continuous Deployment of AWS Lambda behind API Gateway

Post published:September 7, 2016
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Testing / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:4 Comments

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…

Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway

Post published:August 17, 2016
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud
Post Comments:29 Comments

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…

Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda

Post published:July 7, 2016
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:9 Comments

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…