Web Application Development Learning Path
Firefly vs. Control Monkey vs. cloud-concierge in 2023
Why a Cloud Asset Management Platform? With ever expanding cloud environments, having visiblity for and control of cloud assets is not a trivial task to perform manually. A series of offerings exist to automate this problem, providing functionality to at least: Detect...
Ripping out Python and Reducing Our Docker Image Size by ~87%
Background We built an OSS containerized tool, cloud-concierge, for automating Terraform best practices, and primarily implemented the solution in Go, given that Go generally is the “lingua franca” for Terraform tooling. With some gaps in Go, however, we built a few...
The Real Lesson from Prime Video’s Microservices → Monolith Story
Yes, an Amazon team moved from serverless microservices to a monolith, and saved a boatload in AWS costs. But the real lesson here is to choose an approach tailored for your use case.
Running Remote DB Migrations via GitHub Actions
Motivation Database migrations are an essential component in the life cycle of any relational database. We needed a way to trigger database migrations in our development and production environments within our existing CI/CD pipelines running in GitHub Actions. We...
Complete Unit Testing of a Flask API
How can we create unit tests for our Flask API that test end-to-end endpoint functionality (authentication, database changes, and data formats)? We explore one possible solution.
5 Cookie Tips for Single Page Applications
Cookies are essential for modern web apps.. 5 easy tips for avoiding implementation and security pain.