Notes from Complete guide to AWS Step Functions
Notes from https://theburningmonk.thinkific.com/courses/take/complete-guide-to-aws-step-functions Define the steps of your workflow in the JSON-based Amazon States Language With AWS Step Functions, you pay only for the transition from one step of your application workflow to the next, called a…
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Notes from AppSync sessions @ Re:Invent 2020
Notes from AppSync sessions @ Re:Invent 2020 More like Re:Mote 2020 Notes from Unify access to siloed data with AWS AppSync GraphQL resolvers by Nader Dabit Three types of AppSync Resolvers: Direct (directly map a GraphQL operation into a data source - DynamoDB, ElasticSearch or Aurora Serverless…
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Velocity Template Language 101
Velocity Template Language 101 Source Creating variables #set( $a = "Velocity" ) The following rule of thumb may be useful to better understand how Velocity works: References begin with $ and are used to get something. Directives begin with # and are used to do something. Comments ## This is a…
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Notes from Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB – Part 2 with Alex DeBrie
Check out the notes from part 1 here Data modeling process Understand your application First of all, make sure you really understand your application. This is true for both relational and non-relational databases, in order to model data properly you need to have a deep understanding of your…
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Notes from Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB – Part 1 with Alex DeBrie DynamoDB basics: Table - a collection of data (similar to a table in a relational database) Item - an individual record in a DynamoDB table (similar to a row in a relational database) Primary Key - whenever you create a DynamoDB…
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The truth about cookies, tokens and APIs - Phillipe de Ryck
Notes from The truth about cookies, tokens and APIs - Phillipe de Ryck Old way: Send an auth request to the server -> get a cookie -> request a resource with that cookie ( Cookie: ID=123 ) The session info is stored in a server side object New way: Send an auth request to the server -> get a…
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Deconstructing "The EventBridge ETL" CDK Pattern
The EventBridge ETL This blogpost is a quick summary of Deconstructing "The EventBridge ETL" AWS Serverless Architecture Pattern by Matt Coulter Check out the pattern here: https://github.com/cdk-patterns/serverless/tree/master/the-eventbridge-etl Or clone it by running: Components: S3 AWS…
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