If you work daily with AWS – building, deploying, running, debugging, etc… on AWS, then you probably already have all the skills needed to pass any one of the Associate style exams (Solution Architect, Developer, Sys Ops). Having recently taken…
If you want to be to quickly install something, or try something out, but not pollute your environment, then docker is a great way to do that. Here is a one line command that will start new docker bash terminal…
I was recently interviewed by Amazon AWS about some stuff I was working on. You can see the video on the AWS – This Is My Architecture page (https://aws.amazon.com/this-is-my-architecture/) Video:
I will be giving a talk about how we use serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc…) at the AWS Stockholm event (May 3rd 2017). My talk is on the “Deep Dive on Serverless Stack” track. Presentation starts at 15:00 in room A 2. For my…
I have updated my Photobox Downloader application with a bunch of new features and fixes. Photobox recently implemented some heavy throttling for photos download, this update addresses that and more. Change log for 0.3.2: New retry logic will retry failed…
Just a tip, in order for API Gateway test / sandbox area to be able to execute (invoke) a Lambda function that was generated by CloudFormation, you need to explicitly grant the Sandbox permission in your CloudFormation file. As it is…
If you are using Nginx as a reverse proxy and trying to inject client certificates you may run into a Server 400 “No required SSL certificate was sent” error. I spent a few hours debugging this issue and thought I’d…
Just renewed my SSL certificate thanks to StartSSL (using their very nice and fairly straight forward automated system), it got me thinking on all the issues that I have encountered and heard about in regards to SSL certificate and domain renewal.…
Note 2016/12/07: Since this article was written PIA have updated their config. While I have not personally tested this out, some commentators have reported success by doing 2 additional steps: With the new CA file, you now need to specify the…
While playing around with Flux & React I ran into some issues using a yoeman flux generator. It kept failing on “node-gyp rebuild”. If you do any development on Windows you’ve likely run into issues with node-gyp before. The core of the problem is…