How I setup multiple AWS accounts (for dev, staging, prod, etc.) under a single AWS “organization”, but make it easy to have a single user IAM account one logs in with, and then easily switch among the environment accounts. This keeps your dev and production AWS resources siloed to their…

Are Bontrager’s carbon wheels the best for the price? This is the first article my series “Bontrager: a most undervalued brand?” I’ve now ridden two different Bontrager carbon wheelsets, so this article is based on these: Line Pro 30 TLR Boost 29 MTB Wheels Aeolus Pro 3V TLR Disc Road…

Bontrager makes some outstanding bike parts and clothing — especially when you factor in price. I find myself continuously noticing great value from Bontrager bike parts and clothing. Nearly everything they make is of great quality AND has a far better price than the competition. There are exceptions of course…

Authenticating an API Gateway-based API can be done in a myriad of ways. Here are four possibilities when using AWS Serverless (API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, etc.). — This article covers four techniques for authenticating an API implemented via API Gateway. There are of course many, many ways to do authentication, but these four are ones I’ve used with API Gateway and AWS-only technologies and should cover a variety of use cases. Two of these presume your user…

In my previous article, “Skip Lambda, Save Data to DynamoDB Directly Using API Gateway; Process Later With Streams”, I describe a technique allowing you to skip using a Lambda function in an API, and deliver data directly to DynamoDB. This followup details why, in many cases, you shouldn’t do that. …

AWS’ API Gateway allows you to directly connect it to/proxy many other AWS services. This article discusses doing this with DynamoDB, as a way to create an API that adds data to DynamoDB, without needing to use a Lambda function. There are existing AWS docs on using API Gateway as…

This is the first in a series of articles covering my favorite podcasts. This one covers Teamistry, now on it’s second season. I’m starting this series off with Teamistry, both because it’s probably my current favorite, as well as it surprised me how much I liked it. Why? …

Developers using Postgres on Mac — I’d suggest using Postgres.app, instead of Homebrew to install and manage databases. Postgres.app allows you to run specific, and multiple versions easily and won’t auto-upgrade your Postgres to a version you didn’t want. I really like Homebrew in general for package management on macOS…