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Interesting and Technical problems solved and explained

  • EFS + Lambda + EC2 a simple Intro

    On the 18th of June 2020 AWS released EFS for Lambda. This is a pretty great release that provides serverless architectures a way to implement common tasks such as large libraries ( Lambda is limited to 50mb per function zipped deployment package, though you can leverage layers to expand this...

  • Build your own PHP Lambda layer in AWS Cloud-9

    We have had custom layers for a long time in Lambda, I have used them for a few mini app I have personally as well as professionally. Then along comes this official AWS Post on the (L)ambda(A)piGateway(M)ySQL(P)hp stack. I host a few Wordpress sites one of which is DevCOP (...

  • Use AWS CDK to deploy an S3 bucket and use Route 53 to point DNS to the site!

    Static sites are commonplace, often I’ll knock something up as a proof of concept and to share that with my friends I’ll make a public s3 bucket and send the link, quick and easy. If I need/want this for a longer period of time I typically create a subdomain and...

  • Using AWS CDK to deploy a Deno layer and sample Deno application

    Overview This is an example project showing: AWS CDK TypeScript Deploying a new layer in a CDK project and deploy a function that will use the layer. Repository Github Link Requirements: AWS CDK npm install -g aws-cdk Node.js - Download Link An AWS account Local credentials ( unless using Cloud...

  • Running COBOL on AWS Lambda

    I have spent part of my working career in Financial services, it’s a great industry and anyone who has spent any time there knows Mainframe, COBOL and Fortran do come up. I know of one COBOL programmer personally ( the wife of a friend ), however have never seen COBOL...