Recently, I got involved in an cloud application uplift project. As part of the project we wanted to use an Aurora PostgreSQL database to offload all read activities from a RDS Oracle Database Standard Edition. Since this was such an exciting and educational experience, I wanted...
In this post I will show how you can use tfsec to run security checks against your Terraform code, and address any issues that it finds. Furthermore, we'll use the Terratest Go library to make sure we don't accidentally cause any functional regressions along the...
Recently I worked on a personal project to help support the Linux distro I use as a daily driver, Manjaro. I set up a package mirror to allow users from the community to connect to my server and pull updates or new packages for install....
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
Gather round disciples, your master is finally ready to reveal the ultimate secrets of the senior developers. Learn how to transform complex, unreadable code into poetry. Or, more accurately, learn what goes through an old developer's head when he's trying to clean up some dodgy code.
AppSync integrates seamlessly with a DynamoDB database. And as demonstrated in my previous article, AWS Amplify CLI can create the DynamoDB tables and generate the API CloudFormation infrastructure from an annotated GraphQL schema. However, using a relational data source with AppSync is more complex as...
Why GraphQL and App Sync GraphQL has taken the API world by storm as an alternative to REST APIs. One of its main benefits is to enable clients to query for just the data they need. All the types that are exposed in an API are...
