Mark Wolfe's Blog

A mashup is a term that became popular in the 2010s for applications that combined two or more data sources into a single user interface. Recently, I have seen a steady stream of AI-generated side projects, small apps, …

For anyone who has been following AI and software development, things are changing rapidly, this includes how we build software. Over the last few months, I have found myself going from working alone to working with an …

Connect RPC is a suite of libraries which enable you to build HTTP based APIs which are gRPC compatible. It provides a bridge between gRPC and HTTP/1.1, letting you leverage HTTP/2’s multiplexing and performance …

Over the last few years there has been a push away from using machine identity for continuous integration (CI) agents, or runners, and instead use a more targeted, least privileged approach to authentication and …

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, I am often asked what is the best way to organise datasets in S3 . A dataset could comprise data exported by business systems, or data emitted by AWS services, such as …

As a developer who works with Go in my day-to-day development, I constantly struggle with third party packages or tools which bring in a lot of dependencies. This is especially true when you’re trying to keep your …

As a software developer, I have seen a lot of changes over the years, however few have been as drastic as the rise of artificial intelligence. There are a growing list of tools and services using this technology to help …

I have been working with Amazon API Gateway for a while and one thing I noticed is there are a few options for authentication, which can be confusing to developers, and lead to security issues. This post will cover one …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is deprecating the go1.x runtime on Lambda , this is currently scheduled for December 31, 2023. Customers need to migrate their Go based lambda functions to the al2.provided runtime, which uses …

I recently started using Terraform Cloud but discovered that the getting started tutorial which describes how to integrate it with Amazon Web Services (AWS) suggested using IAM user credentials . This is not ideal as …