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 cost for storing data. While … Continue reading S3 and Typescript
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 specifically. tl;dr Fork the automatically … Continue reading SES, Terraform and TypeScript Starter Project
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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 version 0.12 and that has been … Continue reading Deploy Serverless Next.js to AWS with Terraform 1.1
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 how APIs are developed and deployed. … Continue reading Serverless API with TypeScript on AWS
This post introduces a tool to keep your Yarn workspace and TypeScript project references in sync automatically.
Please find an updated and extended version of this post here: The Ultimate Guide to TypeScript Monorepos. Project references in TypeScript are an amazing feature for building complex TypeScript projects. They enable dividing a large project into smaller, indepedent modules and thereby improving code organisation as well as compile times; since it is easier for TypeScript … Continue reading TypeScript Monorepo with Yarn and Project References
I was quite excited when I discovered that it is possible to embed gist links into WordPress blog posts, and they will render as syntax highlighted code: Gist embedded in Lambda Go Starter Project Since I write most of my posts in Markdown I would previously provide the code with Markdown code blocks, but these … Continue reading Do not use WordPress gist embeds
With every commit, git records the name of the author as well as the committer along with their respective email addresses. These will be public once you push your project to GitHub. So sometimes it may be advisable to change the email addresses of the author and committer for all the past commits in your … Continue reading Overwrite Author in Git History
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