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AWS

Headless CMS with Gatsby on AWS for $0.00 per month

Can you have a website with a CMS on AWS and not pay just for its existence? I looked at Amazon Lightsail, headless WordPress, and Webiny CMS but found none of those suitable. So I choose Prismic – a SaaS headless CMS, and Gatsby to create the site. Yes, I needed to make a pipeline to build my website after content changes. But when I did it, I got a website with CMS hosted at no cost.

AWS

Choosing between SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge

AWS can overwhelm with the number of services. Especially if multiple services seem to do a very similar job. Let’s look at the cloud-native AWS messaging services – the SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge. What are the differences and when to use which one?

Things I Found Interesting

Things I Found Interesting #3

Here we are again, with selected content from all over the internet about Tools, Tech, Cloud, Programming, Work, and a single article I couldn’t categorize. Probably because I’m still in shock after reading it.

Uncategorized

Don’t help others (immediately)

I know my coworkers and teammates are reading this, and probably my boss as well. But let’s risk it.

AWS

AWS Lambda performance optimization

There are two reasons to optimize AWS Lambda functions performance. First is money – you pay for the Lambda execution duration. The quicker you do the job, the less you pay. The second is latency – the quicker you do the job, the shorter your client waits for the result. It’s a known fact that the decrease of latency improves sales, user engagement, and client satisfaction – so we could argue it’s also the money, in the end.

Things I Found Interesting

Things I Found Interesting #2

Two months after the previous edition, I gathered enough interesting resources to share them. In this edition, you will find content about HTTP, WebDev, Versioning, Tech, and ProblemSolving.

AWS

AWS JavaScript SDK v3 – usage, problems, testing

The new version of AWS SDK for JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js came with a few significant improvements. But does “General Availability” mean “ready for the production”? How to use it? And how to unit test our code using it? Let’s take a look at it.

AWS

AWS Lambda logging best practices

Logging in AWS Lambda functions is simple. You just print the message, and it’s sent to the CloudWatch Logs. And everything is fine until you get a surprisingly big bill for the CloudWatch usage, or you need to actually debug some live system. Here are my tips for logging in AWS Lambda, based on my experience with real-live, big-scale functions running on production.

Things I Found Interesting

Things I Found Interesting #1

Welcome to the first issue of Things I Found Interesting – an irregular series of links to, well, interesting content. Below are eleven articles and resources on various software-related topics, which I stumbled upon in the last several weeks.

Tools

Pin exact dependency versions

Buckle up, for some of you this may be controversial, but maybe for some others – obvious. This is how to prevent a problem causing your application to out of the sudden stop behaving correctly, or, even more funny, stop behaving correctly only on one developer’s computer. We can solve this with ~~one~~ two simple tricks.

Coding is an art. Be an artist.