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AWS NYC Summit 2023 Talk: Scaling Event-Driven Architectures with Serverless Micropayments (DevChat)
At the AWS NYC Summit 2023, I delivered a 30 minute DevChat to ~200 attendees on how I built an event-driven serverless micropayments system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for The Capital Platform. In my talk, I discuss: Cases for serverless vs. serverful architectures, How I used LLMs (OpenAI, Google Bard, and Hugging Face) while building, How I built our serverless payments architectures with Stripe and many AWS services, and What our multi-table database design looks like with DynamoDB. Serverless is more than "just Lambda," and this approach, combined with our Infrastructure as Code (Iac) pipeline, has allowed us to stand up features, front-end-to-back-end, with robust autoscaling and updatable configurations, like payments…
freeCodeCamp: Full-Stack Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Course – Code a Quote Generator
In my 6-hour freeCodeCamp course, learn how to use Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Amplify to build a full stack inspirational quote generator app. You'll learn to use the ZenQuotes' API for fetching quotes and then you'll deep into state management, hooks, debugging, NoSQL database modeling, and much more…
Stacking Serverless Data Structures for a Pomodoro App on AWS
Figuring out numeric sort querying using GraphQL of NoSQL DynamoDB data. This was probably the hardest step for me in this project because at the highest level, when you are running a data stream with chaining, you affect one item and it means you must alter the other elements in the chain accordingly. TL;DR: you edit one item, so you must edit the others accordingly…
Wrangling GraphQL Data Schemas with AWS AppSync
AppSync will help you auto-build your queries and mutations based on the schema you define in your schema.graphql file. Not only does this reduce the possibility of errors in production, but it also increases your ability to turn code around faster with code generation (codegen) and auto-build sequences to configure the database, storage, and authentication privileges in the cloud based on your API endpoint in a matter of minutes. So what happens if you come across an issue where you don't see the /graphql folder in your application…
Build an Inspirational Quote Generator (AWS, NextJS, TypeScript, NodeJS) - 6 HOUR CLOUD PROJECT!
In this epic build, we're going to create a completely serverless quote generator using AWS as our cloud back-end and NextJS/TypeScript as our front-end. What you'll learn in this build is how to: Build a ~cool~ front-end for a quote generator, Write a script to fetch a random inspirational quote from ZenQuotes' API, Use AWS to generate a quote graphic for you in the cloud & then let you download the file, and Deploy live…
AWS re:Invent 2022 Talk: "Become a Full-Stack Developer: Migrating my company from GCP to AWS"
At AWS re:Invent 2022, I delivered a 30 minute DevChat on how to become a full-stack developer through the lens of migrating my company from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you've ever... wanted to build serverless apps, wanted to start your developer journey, wanted to become a full-stack developer, or wanted an excuse to start building something on your mind... then this 30-minute talk is for you…
AWS Amplify CLI Installation Guide (M1/M2 2022 Mac Edition)
I ran into a core issue where I needed to use sudo in front of all of the AWS Amplify CLI commands, which meant I would have to put in my password EVERY SINGLE TIME I ran amplify something. I hope that this guide helps you get up and running with AWS Amplify, especially if you run into the Error: EACCES: permission denied errors that I ran into…
How to Connect Your Local Project’s Codebase to a GitHub Repository Fast!
GitHub is one of the most powerful tools for developers, whether you are working on your project solo or working amongst members of a team. Git and GitHub adds a version control layer to your code so anyone can see the change history, the edits, and also see various branches of the codebase. We are going to review the process of uploading a local codebase repository from a computer to GitHub from the command line…
How DevOps Works and Keeps the Lights On with Jason Schrader & CityCoins
In the spirit of #Hacktoberfest 🎃, I'll be going live on YouTube today at 8:00pm EST (5:00pm PST) for another livestream with Jason Schrader, a big open source technology advocate, as well as a core developer of CityCoins and Stacks blockchain advocate, to talk about how DevOps works and specifically why DevOps is so important for keeping the lights on…
How to Get Started in Open Source (#Hacktoberfest) with Jason Schrader & CityCoins
Today 2 years back, I attended DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2019 🎃 In a couple weeks thanks to some very helpful blog posts, I learned how to work on open source projects on GitHub which are skills I still use today. This changed how I thought about open innovation and coding forever — it was a really transformational experience. In the spirit of #Hacktoberfest, I'll be going live on YouTube today at 8:00pm EST (5:00pm PST) with Jason Schrader, a big open source technology advocate, as well as a core developer of CityCoins and Stacks blockchain advocate, to talk about how to get started in open-source and learn how to contribute to tech projects from anywhere in the world….