Encryption at rest has long been a cornerstone in data security and it’s something that everyone should take seriously. If an attacker is able to get a hold of your data, encryption at rest becomes your last line of defence. For instance, in the recent LastPass security breach, the attacker was able to steal customers’ …
Yes, S3 now encrypts objects by default, but your job is not done yet Read More »
Loose coupling and high cohesion are two of the most essential software engineering principles. Unrelated things should stay apart, while related elements should be kept together. These principles apply at all levels of our application — from the system-level architecture all the way down to individual modules or functions. With this simple principle in mind, …
This is why you should keep stateful and stateless resources together Read More »
As the curtain draws on 2022, here’s my year in numbers: 1 book 2 on-demand video courses 1023 students enrolled in my video courses 4 public workshops 118 workshop students 21 blog posts 4 YouTube videos 14 podcast episodes 16 public speaking engagements Serverless Architectures on AWS In February 2022, after nearly two years of hard …
Testing Step Functions can be a daunting task. However, with a little preparation and effort, the testing process can be simplified and streamlined. In this article, we will provide a practical strategy on how to test Step Functions. So let’s start by setting the stage and introducing the players. What makes Step Functions hard to test? …
re:Invent is almost upon us. Judging by the things that had been announced ahead of re:Invent, one can’t help but be excited about the main event itself! Here is a list of the serverless-related announcements so far that you should know about. Payload-based message filtering for Amazon SNS Here’s the official announcement. This is arguably the …
The biggest preinvent serverless announcements you may have missed Read More »
AWS announced a new feature this week that lets you enable WAF protection for Cognito user pools. And one of the things you can do with this is to implement geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists. Geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists are usually implemented in the frontend as well as the backend APIs. But users (and …
How to setup geofencing and IP allow-list for Cognito user pool Read More »
You might have encountered this issue when using Amplify to host your single-page applications. An image in the public folder would show up perfectly fine when running locally but it was not found on the live site after Amplify deployed your change. Curiously, this only happens with some images – jpeg, avif, webp… The reason …
Amplify: how to fix images that show up locally but not after deployment Read More »
Update 04/08/2022: turns out there are some valid reasons (analytics and potentially SEO) for redirecting from the apex domain to www. Please see comments from Michael Hart, Mike Lamb and Tyler Love to my tweet here for more details. I have used Amplify to host all my single-page applications, including the newly revamped sites …
Amplify: you shouldn’t allow redirect from apex to www Read More »
I recently rebuilt the landing page for both AppSync Masterclass and Production-Ready Serverless. The sites were hosted on Shifter (think serverless WordPress) and Wix respectively. In both cases, the performance of the sites (especially on mobile) left a lot to be desired. A large portion of the user traffics to these sites comes from mobile. …
10 performance optimization tips I learned after rebuilding two course landing pages Read More »
As I rebuild the landing page for the AppSync Masterclass I wanted to give this boring “about me” section a facelift. After taking inspiration from other landing pages, I decided to go with something like this. Notice the gradient effect towards the bottom of each image? It provides a nice backdrop and contrast for the …
How to add a subtle gradient on top of an image using CSS Read More »
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