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Automated Tweets with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Another article about Amazon Web Services (AWS), this time creating a Lambda (or Serverless or Function as a Service) which tweets about this very blog at regular intervals, using DynamoDB as its data store. I also use AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) to trigger an e-mail to let me know the tweet has happened.
As an added bonus, there is also a refresher on functional programming in Javascript, and Javascript promises.
A CD Pipeline in Amazon Web Services
Friday, 1 September 2017
In a previous article, I described serving a website from an S3 bucket, with CloudFront allowing us to apply SSL. This article looks at the other side of the process — how we populate the S3 bucket in the first place. I would typically use Jenkins to set up a build and deploy pipeline for this, but here I look at using the build tools AWS provides.