We don’t usually revisit and discuss Encryption (at least at a low level) much. Usually, Encryption and Decryption are abstracted through libraries, methods and protocols we use. However, last week, I had the chance to look at a feature that required a bit of work around Encryption and had to…

When selecting a tool to perform API testing, it’s natural to pick one that’s built for this purpose, such as Postman, SoapUI, RestAssured, etc. There are many other similar tools in the market. Also, it’s possible to leverage Http Client libraries to perform API testing. Here are some of these…

If you’ve built a website, whether for personal or commercial use, you probably researched web hosting options. Lots of companies provide this kind of services. In this post, we will build a very simple website, and host it on Amazon S3 (Amazon storage service), which can be used to…

I have a lambda function that’s taking a few seconds to execute, and that’s not related to a cold start. It’s the code in the handler function that’s taking time, and that’s because it’s CPU and memory intensive. Performance problems related to cold start can be enhanced through provisioned concurrency…

Have you ever tried to handle a ton of requests at once with AWS Lambda? What if you had a critical operation that required speed, scaling the performance of a request down to single-digit milliseconds? In a previous article, I discussed how to speed up your Lambda function, touching on…

In the early days of the covid pandemic, and for a significant period, when we went to the supermarket, we had to wait in a queue for our turn to enter the supermarket. Only a certain number of customers could shop together at a particular time. The intention was to…

Are you developing an app and want others to access it before it’s available in the cloud? Or are you integrating with a third-party tool and wish to enable access to your local app for a better development experience? This article is for you. There are many use cases where…

It is common to use multiple accounts in AWS to split up environments, group workload based on the business function, or apply tighter security measures… That’s a correct way to do it, but it comes with the pain and overhead of managing multiple AWS accounts. Should we create a user…

Commits form one of the core concepts in git. They are snapshots of your branch at a certain point, recording your code changes. When you create a new commit, you usually add a message that describes your code changes. The commit messages are the logs of your changes. In multiple…