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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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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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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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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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Buildkite is a great tool for running multi-step build and deployment pipelines. Lerna is a tool for managing multiple JavaScript packages within one git repository. Given that both Lerna and Buildkite are quite popular, it is surprising how difficult it is to set up a basic build and deployment with
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Sometimes it feels that it takes more time setting up the infrastructure of an application that actually writing the application code. The following infographic from gruntwork nicely illustrates this by showing the breath of tasks one needs to undertake to get a production-grade infrastructure running:
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I love VPS providers such as RamNode or ServerCheap which provide excellent performance at a low price point. Unfortunately, when going with most VPS providers, there are no easy built-in facilities for backing up and restoring the data of your servers (such as with AWS EC2 snapshots). Thankfully, there is
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On first glance, logging looks like an exceedingly simple problem to solve. However, it is one of these problems which unfortunately become more and more complex the longer one looks at it. I think because of this, there are many frameworks in Java to support logging (since everyone seems to
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As mentioned in my previous post, I have long been looking for a centralised solution for collecting logs and monitoring metrics. I think my search was unsuccessful since I was looking for too many things in one solution. Instead I found now two separate solutions, one for log management (using
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I have been looking around for an easy to use and reasonable priced solution for managing logs distributed among many servers and system metrics for these servers. I had a brief look into setting up an ELK system but I found that looked quite cumbersome. Recently I came across Graylog
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I set up a Jenkins server on a brand new Centos 7 VPS. In the following the instructions for doing this in case you are looking at doing the same: Setting up Jenkins Server * Install OpenJDK Java sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk * Add Jenkins Repo and install Jenkins sudo
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Today I was looking for a simple way to test the latency and bandwidth between two Linux servers. The easiest way, of course, is to just use ping. The ping utility should be available on almost any Linux server and is extremely easy to use. Just login to one of