I have been a “power customer” for over a decade, and a Prime member since ~2008, and now I have the luxury of being part of the Amazon machine working within the AWS group. Even if none of that were true I have a fascination with business leaders as anyone Read more…
Today was my first real day working at Amazon; specifically AWS. I’m blessed with the privilege to lead the Amplify Console team within the AWS Amplify group, and I could not be more excited.
A very simple buildspec.yml using a shell script to fetch an environment file from S3. You’ll want to make sure permissions are setup on the S3 bucket to properly manage this from CodeBuild.
First, we need to setup our workstation to have a docker image that we can use to mimic codebuild in the wild. For this I’ve setup nodejs, but you can browse the binaries and freely use whichever you want. Below is a simple list of commands to get setup. Note Read more…
Part 1 of building a “Serverless” Slackbot is to define the serverless configuration.
The point is we identify many similar reusable components, and so we reuse them, all-the-while maintaining our uniqueness across pipelines. If we later determine the testing step needs to be separated, the change process is very straight forward and as simple as cloning the original and updating the new Lambda.
How many of us as technology leaders are told in our regular 1×1 with our team members that folks want to learn new things and work on the latest and greatest? Hopefully all of us, right? A quick and painless way of enabling people to scratch the surface is with Read more…
Assumptions: You have installed and configured AWS CLI You have a third party mail service setup already (we use mailgun for this example). The entire process for this simple effort requires a handful of steps: Install SAM Local Define your Lambda in AWS Console (can also do so using CLI) Read more…
I am so excited to be going to re:Invent this year. Coupled with the opportunity to visit with some family, it’s going to be an extremely action-packed week of pure awesome. It felt like college course selection all over again, except there were too many that I was interested in Read more…
Tired of the permission errors with your cache/logs in a Vagrant environment? Me too! After being mildly annoyed with having to manually delete /var/cache and /var/logs repeatedly during “local” development, I decided to brut force matters into my own hands and solve this little annoyance once and for all. Ironically, Symfony 3.3 Read more…