leadership
Why You Should Become and Engineering Leader (or Not)
Are you up for a promotion or want to plan out your career path? This article provides some useful questions to ponder before you make your decision.
openai
Optimise OpenAI Whisper API: Audio Format, Sampling Rate and Quality
Provides guidiance on how to reduce latency when working with the OpenAI Whisper API
coding
A Guide to CSS Modules with React
There are many different ways to provide styling for React components, such as importing plain CSS, using styled components, JS-in-CSS or CSS Modules. These all have various advantages and disadvantages. To me, it seems CSS Modules provide the best solution overall for beginner to intermediate use. We can use the
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Enabling Compression for Lambda with AWS HTTP APIs
AWS HTTP APIs provides a new way to deploy REST-based APIs in AWS; providing a number of simplifications over the original REST APIs. However, when working with HTTP APIs we need to be aware of a few gotchas, such as what types to use for handler arguments. REST APIs also
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Beginners Guide to DynamoDB with Node.js
I have long been very sceptical of so called NoSQL databases. I believe that traditional SQL database provided better higher level abstractions for defining data structures and working with data. However, I have received a few queries for a DynamoDB template for my project builder Goldstack and I figured a
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S3 and Typescript
AWS S3 is a cloud service for storing data using a simple API. In contrast to a traditional database, S3 is more akin to a file system. Data is stored under a certain path. The strengths of S3 are its easy to use API as well as its very low
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SES, Terraform and TypeScript Starter Project
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a serverless service for sending emails from your applications. Like other AWS services, you can send emails with SES using the AWS REST API or the AWS SDKs. In this article, I want to look at how to send emails using SES with TypeScript
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Next.js 12 Templates
Next.js 12 has been released a few months ago. It is a major update to the Next.js framework that includes a lot of new features and improvements. Goldstack provides two templates based on Next.js: Next.js Template for building vanilla Next.js applications Next.js + Bootstrap Template
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Next.js + Bootstrap Boilerplate
I has been nearly two years since I first wrote about a Next.js + Bootstrap starter project on this blog. Since then I have been extending the base template and made it easier to configure and use. It is now available as one of the templates on Goldstack: Next.js
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Deploy Serverless Next.js to AWS with Terraform 1.1
Terraform for better or worse is frequently updated with new versions. Many of these introduce incompatibilities with previous versions that require manual rework of Terraform definitions as well as require updating the local or remote Terraform state. I originally developed a solution for deploying Next.js to AWS using Terraform
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Serverless API with TypeScript on AWS
There are many ways to stand up a REST API. Nearly every programming language provides a way for us to develop a simple web server, such as Express.js, Go Gin or Python Flask. However, with the advent of serverless computing, we need to rethink some of the fundamentals of
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Update TypeScript Project References for Yarn Workspaces - magically!
As I've written in an earlier post, TypeScript project references and Yarn Workspaces are powerful tools for managing complex TypeScript projects. Yarn Workspaces manages dependencies between multiple JavaScript packages within one project, and contains tools that let us easily deduce which packages depend on which other packages in