This is first part of articles about partial failures which focuses on SQS. We will discuss here why we need partial failures, how to use them and when you should use them. Pre-requisites First of all, let’s get some perspective on what we’re talking about here. Let’s say our business logic…

Recently I found a great product for mocking APIs — Mockoon. It’s not only easy to use, well-designed, versatile and beautiful. It can also be deployed in multiple ways and can support your complicated test case scenarios. Intro / TL;DR Mockoon can be used to define mocked APIs using dynamic response templates, simulated…

In this part we will find way to “by-pass” CORS. Please do not use it for serious production workloads. It should be done only as a last resort. If you just opened this part and have doubts whether you fully understand CORS I strongly recommend to go and read part…

I often find that experienced developers do not understand CORS. These articles are for them — devs who have been in IT for a long time and at this point are afraid to ask how CORS works in detail. …

I often find that experienced developers do not understand CORS. These articles are for them — devs who have been in IT for a long time and at this point are afraid to ask how CORS works in detail. …

TLDR; There is no CloudFormation support for SNS platform application, but you can make it work with custom resource that can be found under: https://github.com/SodaDev/sns-platform-application Motivation I had to create infrastructure for sending push notifications to mobile devices. I decided to do it using SNS with Firebase. You can set it…

Actually it does not officially and it was click-bait… sort of, but please give me a minute to explain. TLDR; AWS does not support creating identity store users using CloudFormation, but I have created custom resource that can help you doing it https://github.com/SodaDev/aws-identity-center-custom-resources Motivation I wanted to create Identity Center (SSO) for…

Motivation Dashboards Dashboards are great for getting an overview of systems health, performance, KPIs and current situation in your workloads in general. Everyone knows that and there is no doubt that they are necessary. The only problem with dashboards is that usually you have so many resources and projects in the cloud…

In the previous article we have showed you how to setup RDS Aurora cluster with triggers invoking AWS lambda on every data changes to mimic DynamoDB Streams behaviour. Below we have summary of things worth to consider when choosing this solution in your system. Lambda throttling We have tested lambda throttling behaviour…