Posted on March 17, 2021
If you need to run an agile sprint this document might help. Timeline The timeline for a 2 week sprint Day Day of Week Description -…
Posted on March 15, 2021
The Node Version Manager is an easy to way to run multiple versions of Node. Having upgraded to macOS 11 recently I found that I had…
Posted on September 26, 2020
All AppSync API keys have an expiration time between 1 and 365 days from when they are created. After creation you can extend the API key…
Posted on August 16, 2020
I had a front end developer comment that one of API's was slow. The developer was trying download all of the products and their related…
Posted on May 28, 2020
Typically I combined AppSync with Cognito User Pools for authorization. This works great for API's where the user is logged in but what if…
Posted on May 15, 2020
If you want to start a flame war in the AWS AppSync community then ask if you should use a single or multiple table design for DynamoDB…
Posted on June 10, 2019
I've been wanting to switch from the Serverless Framework to SAM for a long time now. While the Serverless Framework has been an excellent…
Posted on May 31, 2019
If you've ever tried to debug a Lambda that isn't working correctly then you'll know the pain of adding console.log()'s all over the code…
Posted on May 13, 2019
Many AWS AppSync customers will have noticed a change in the AWS Console during the last 24 hours with the release of support for multiple…
Posted on January 04, 2019
A few weeks ago I responded to a question about API Gateway custom authorizers and how it caches the policy with. With custom authorizers…
Posted on November 28, 2018
I love GraphQL and serverless architectures so it shouldn't be a surprise that I'm a huge fan of AWS AppSync. It's quickly become my default…
Posted on August 30, 2018
A common question on the Serverless Framework forums goes something like Why are my environment variables replaced during Serverless…
Posted on July 19, 2018
A couple of years ago I started building Shopify apps using serverless architectures. My first attempts were React applications using REST…
Posted on June 14, 2018
With the Node 8.10 runtime AWS added a new async handler syntax while continuing to support the old callback handler syntax. From the number…
Posted on May 17, 2017
Like many developers I avoided using Cognito for a long time. It just seemed too complicated. I only stared using it after AppSync was…
Posted on May 17, 2017
It's almost a right of passage. You give a talk about “serverless” then someone in the crowd points out you're still using servers. This…
Posted on April 07, 2017
Occasionally you need to know the API Gateway URL for your services inside your Lambda. This happened to me recently when one of my Lambda's…
Posted on March 31, 2017
NOTE: This has been tested using Node 6.10, NPM 4.5 and Serverless 1.11. I don't know the first version of those packages that this works…
Posted on January 22, 2017
In a previous post I wrote about using per stage environment variables with the Serverless Framework. That article showed how you could set…
Posted on December 29, 2016
One question that I keep hearing is "Can I have more than one handler in my AWS Lambda function?". This usually in the context of someone…
Posted on November 27, 2016
As developers we all know that it's best practice to keep configuration outside of the application. This serves two purposes: It makes it…