Deploy AWS Lambda with Terraform without storing the Zip archive
Terraform is a great tool but managing AWS Lambda is arguably not one of its strength. In this post I'll describe one approach that I follow to work around this limitation.
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Building a basic Jamstack webmail client with Vue 3
Vue 3 is going to be released soon and I wanted to see how easy it is to create the simples possible useful application with it. It turns out it's pretty easy with vue-cli and serverless tools! Here I share my findings.
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Automate database backups with AWS Fargate, S3 and CDK
I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.
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Setup free WHOIS monitoring to avoid unwanted domain expirations with Serverless on AWS
A few days ago I forgot to renew one of my registered Internet domains which I believed was set to auto-renew and received a few alerts when affected services started to fail. I hence took the chance to setup a simple and free monitoring solution to avoid incurring again in this same problem once and for all. Powered by AWS CDK, Python and WhoisXML
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For simple tasks plain vanilla is still my favorite flavour of JavaScript
I developed a simple JS audio player for a recording studio website and put it on GitHub. In this article I share my thoughts and findings.
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Add free performance monitoring to your websites with Lighthouse and AWS CDK
Google's Lighthouse is a powerful free resource that helps developers build performant, accessible and SEO friendly websites. Here I show one way to make use of Lighthouse to add performance monitoring for web pages using Serverless components on AWS.
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Centralise GNU/Linux email delivery like it's 2020
The technological side of Email has always occupied a bittersweet corner in my nerdy heart. In this article I dive a bit in the history of SMTP and share a simple but effective solution that I currently use to rationalise system and users' email delivery for a few of the Linux systems I manage.
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Setup Atom/RSS feed as event source for AWS Lambda invocation with CDK
In a previous article I described how to develop a serverless event-driven application to automate social media updates. Now I show how to make use of RSS/Atom Feed and AWS Lambda + CDK to add the missing bit and make it 100% automated.
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Automate router WiFi bridge setup with Raspberry Pi, Node.js, Puppeteer and Ansible
Automate router WiFi bridge setup with Raspberry Pi, Node.js, Puppeteer and Ansible
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Replace p2k.co (Pocket to Kindle) SaaS with an event-driven serverless application based on AWS
For my reading habits in the recent years I've been using p2k.co service to send Pocket articles to my Kindle. I decided to fix some of p2k shortcomings replacing it with an event-driven serverless application built with AWS Lambda, Fargate and CDK
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An AWS Lambda execution report webpage built with Lambda Destinations, CDK and Svelte
Moving from a previous CDK article I expand the publish-to-social code base to add a nice report functionality. In this article I show you how easy it is to introduce Lambda Destinations in your CDK project and make use of them for this particular use case. For the frontend part I use Svelte web framework to present the Lambda report JSON output as web page content.
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Setup AWS Lambda-to-Lambda invocations between CDK Stacks
With CDK is easy to organize AWS resources and share them between Stacks when needed. In this article I show you how I split an `api` Lambda in two, one for handling the API Gateway requests and the other for sending messages to an external notifications service.
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Automate social media status updates with AWS Lambda, SNS and CDK
In the previous article I introduced AWS Cloud Developer Kit and wondered if and how to make use of code abstractions when designing IaC. Today I show you one way to extend the previous codebase and deploy a typical event driven (pub-sub) serverless application built with Lambda and SNS.
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Introducing AWS CDK with a real life Lambda and API gateway example
After successfully replacing Terraform with CDK in a real life project I take the chance to wrap up the new knowledge along with some Terraform vs. CDK kind of considerations. I also synthesize the acquired know-how in a mini tutorial based on the actual code used in the production scenario.
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Remaking my curriculum vitæ with modern web technologies
For a while I wanted to manage my CV in a more flexible way. I stumbled upon a great article on CSS-Tricks that made me think I had no more excuses to procrastinate. In this article I present my solution along with some considerations.
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My quest for identity in Software Engineering
A wrap up of my last 20 years as a professional in IT, along with some considerations about the current state of the art.
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Setup a custom domain REST API endpoint on AWS Lambda: a step by step tutorial
Setup a custom domain REST API endpoint on AWS Lambda: a step by step tutorial
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Migrating the blog to Jekyll and Firebase
Migrating the blog to Jekyll and Firebase
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sslnotify.me - yet another OpenSource Serverless MVP
sslnotify.me - yet another OpenSource Serverless MVP
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Lastversion: a Go serverless proof of concept developed on OpenWhisk
Lastversion: a Go serverless proof of concept developed on OpenWhisk
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Integrating Sonos with Spreaker RSS feed
Integrating Sonos with Spreaker RSS feed