Full disclosure, this article is a prelude to a different article in which I will explain how to add automated integration tests to your AWS CodePipeline using AWS Lambda functions. I don’t think it’s a hot take to say that relying on manual testing for your services is… bad. With…

Authenticate Lambda requests with an Application Load Balancer with Infrastructure as Code. — This article is the second part of a series that explains how to build an AWS application that authenticates requests to its Lambda services by using an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The goal of this application is to authenticate Lambda requests with an HTTPS ALB instead of API Gateway using…

Build an Application Load Balancer that uses OAuth2.0 to authenticate requests to Lambda services. — Recently, a serverless pattern was introduced that leverages Application Load Balancers (ALB) in front of Lambda functions instead of API Gateway (API GW). In a two-part series, I will explain how to configure an HTTPS ALB that authenticates through an OpenID Connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider (IdP) using CloudFormation. …

A simple roadmap you can use to streamline your Serverless TypeScript application deployment. — In this article, I’ll discuss how adding a few lines of code to your tsconfig.json, package.json, and serverless.yml can help you deploy your TypeScript-based serverless stack to AWS with one command. If you’re reading this because explicitly defining your data types is what floats your boat, I’m right there with…

Useful Node/AWS recipes you can use again and again. As I work on AWS cloud-native applications, there are certain NodeJS “recipes” I find myself leaning on time and time again. It occurred to me the other day that I should record these somewhere for my own reference, but then I…

Marshal your own data when the higher level APIs will not. If you’re familiar with DynamoDB, you know that transforming (or as AWS calls it, “marshaling”) your data into DynamoDB ‘s consumable form can be cumbersome. Luckily for us developers, AWS offers higher level APIs that will handle data marshaling…

4 Easy Steps to Master the Single Table DynamoDB Design Pattern — As someone who has spent a lot of time working with relational data, I can empathize with developers who struggle with NoSQL database technologies. However, the more that I’ve worked with DynamoDB over the last several years, the more I’ve come to love the freedom and flexibility it provides. However…