tl;dr If you just want to look through the code and attached README, just straight over to: https://github.com/JoshM1994/cdk-static-website Hosting a static (HTML, JS, CSS and images/video only) website through S3 is one of the “new metas” of the modern internet. …

When Apple first announced and rolled out their Hide My Email service, I was immediately intrigued and an avid early adopter. The ability to generate unique email addresses for each new website I signed up for a huge step towards keeping my personal email free of spam and out of…

What this article is and is NOT It is NOT an introduction to mocking It is NOT a “copy-paste” project It IS a story and example of how to take existing examples/documentation and extend them to less common use-cases. Background Mocking in Python is a far easier task than I ever thought it would be. At the beginning…

with AWS Athena, S3, SNS and Lambda — “Big Data” analysis is all the rage right now but never has it been quite so easy to analyse huge swathes of data for such a negligible cost. AWS Athena is Amazon’s “Serverless interactive query service” — using standard SQL, a data scientist can perform queries on large volumes of…

This article builds on my introduction to building a custom Elastic Beanstalk application using AWS CDK (in TypeScript). Reading that story first will help with the context of the following but it is not required. By way of brief intro, AWS CDK is a very powerful framework for building entire…

Over the weekend I read Ross Rhodes’ fantastic article on generating Infrastructure as Code. Having previously encountered many shortcomings in the Serverless Framework with which I am most familiar, I was curious to see if CDK could be a solution to some of the more complex challenges in terms of…

Motivation Outside of work, I enjoy dabbling in a great many personal projects using a diverse range of JavaScript-related languages, namely: Node.js, React and React Native, some of which are written in TypeScript. I’m a firm believer in linting code and until recently it frustrated me that I needed separate configurations…

Burner disclaimer This project aimed to facilitate communication between camp members over vast distances: to spread news of events and ensure everyone’s safety. It was not intended to distract from the immediacy aspect or to interfere with anyone else’s experience. Motivation As anyone who has been to Burning Man knows, the…

Ever since Node 8 became the new LTS and the default runtime for AWS Lambda, I’ve loved using the async/await syntax: it’s super legible and allows for much easier conditional promise chaining than the previous native alternatives. Before too long I found myself wanting to execute a large selection of…