- 2019-08-016 minWhy CDK?
Early this year amazon web services released the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which is best summed up by a quote from the GitHub project. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development …
#042 - 2019-05-123 minServerless Background jobs part 2
Step Functions allow you to build pipelines involving one or more amazon, or external service. Some examples of this are: complex customer on boarding processes jobs which provision resources then send a welcome email …
#041 - 2019-05-112 minServerless Background jobs part 1
Background jobs form the backbone of a lot of modern applications, they are used to perform a range of asynchronous tasks, from image processing through to order processing, fulfillment and shipping. Wherever there is a …
#040 - 2018-12-225 minUsing AWS DeepRacer for ROS development
So the DeepRacer was released with much fanfare by Amazon Web Services (AWS) at this years Reinvent conference in Las Vegas. This combines an off the shelf radio control (RC) car chassis, with an intel based compute …
#039 - 2018-03-014 minDiving into vgo from the Golang project
I have been looking into the Versioned Go Command which was released recently by Russ Cox . In summary this project is a pretty rethink of how golang retrieves and stores packages used to build applications, and more …
#038 - 2017-11-054 minAWS User Federation with Keycloak
As a user of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in large organisations I am always mindful of providing a mechanism to enable single sign on (SSO) to simplify the login process for users, enable strict controls for the …
#037 - 2017-05-255 minSo you want to use DynamoDB?
Over the last few months I have been working on a project which uses DynamoDB almost exclusively for persistence, this has been a big challenge for everyone on the team. As a developer, most of us are comfortable using a …
#036 - 2016-08-133 minbootstrap an apex golang project
Lately I have been using apex to build a side project, this tool stream lines building and deploying serverless applications using AWS Lambda . While working on this project I have helped others get started with golang …
#035 - 2016-08-122 minbootstrap a golang project
I have been helping a few people get up and running with golang lately and thought it was about time to post a brief getting started. This is primarily for OSX as this is what most of my colleagues use. Firstly you will …
#034 - 2015-08-082 minDevelopment with Webpack and Docker
This describes how to develop front-end projects with webpack inside a docker container using boot2docker on OSX. So firstly why would we even do this? The main aim of using docker for development is: Portable build …
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