Basic Authentication for free with Netlify edge functions
How to use Netlify edge functions to password-protect your staging site on the free plan.
Articles
Tips, tricks, thoughts and just things I've learned along the way, mostly related to the web or the cloud, but not always.
Enforce Data Integrity: Master your JSON with JSON Schema
Struggling with inconsistent JSON data? JSON Schema offers a powerful, standardized approach to validate, structure, and streamline your data management.
JSDoc: Halfway House or All You Need?
Is JSDoc alone sufficient for modern JavaScript projects, or is it merely a stepping stone towards adopting TypeScript?
Where Have All the Classes Gone?
How and why functional components and Hooks became the preferred approach with React.
ECS: Accessing Containers with Session Manager
Access the command line of ECS containers hosted on EC2 or Fargate using Session Manager.
ECS: Simplified Communication Between Containers with Service Discovery
Enable secure and scalable communication between containers in ECS using Service Discovery.
Paginating in AWS SDK
Easy pagination of api calls using AWS SDK's little known built-in utilities.
Transactional mail with AWS Simple Email Service
Send transactional mail securely and at scale, directly from your AWS account—without the need for third-party services.
Setting up AWS EventBridge Notifications in Slack
Get a notification in your Slack channel whenever something occurs in AWS.
Authenticating with AWS IAM using a third-party Identity Provider (IDP)
Setting up an Identity Provider for AWS IAM to ensure secure authentication using GitLab as an example.
Uptime Monitoring with AWS Route53 Health Checks
Stay a step ahead of outages - implement robust, serverless uptime monitoring using AWS's Route 53, CloudWatch, and SNS.
Eventbridge rules - what they are and debugging them.
Automate responses to specific events happening within your AWS services using AWS Eventbridge rules.
Using Eventbridge Scheduler
EventBridge Scheduler offers one-off events, flexible scheduling, and direct integration capabilities that will simplify and even replace existing time-delayed solutions and Lambda functions.
Gitlab parallel matrix pipelines
Excuting a job with multiple configurations in parallel using Gitlab.
Triggering Gitlab pipelines from AWS
Automatically trigger a GitLab pipeline when content changes in an S3 bucket
Triggering Other GitLab Pipelines in Multi-Project Builds
Automatically trigger downstream pipelines on interdependent projects.
Simple rate-limiting with NGINX
Configuring NGINX to protect a login endpoint with rate limiting to mitigate brute-force attacks.
Solving our CMS Downtime with NGINX
How we used NGINX's reverse proxy features to entirely mitigate errors caused by downtime of our headless CMS effectively, whilst always serving the most recent content.