An approach for working with legacy API and new API
Introduction When we first start working with a third-party API, the version we started with may become obsolete after a few years since the legacy API may no longer be supported by the original creators or contains security problems when we need to migrate to newer versions. There could be a variety of other reasons to upgrade, such as the expense of maintaining the legacy API being greater and inefficient than the latest version, as well...
Managing Python Dependencies in Serverless
Bundle external Python dependencies in your Serverless projects with virtualenv and serverless-python-requirements plugin....
Terra-forming Medialive Resources
We’ve all been there. Learning to use terraform, writing beautiful code to manage our cloud infrastructure; it’s all sunshine and rainbows. Until you realize you work with video and need to use Medialive resources. Now sure, you can create these resources from the aws console like a nomad and pass in the arn to make your CD pipeline do what it needs to do but unfortunately we are not nomads. We are engineers and hackers...
AWS Lambda! but on steroids
Do you ever feel like AWS LAMBDA is great but they are just not enough for what you need to do? Maybe you need more horsepower, perhaps a core or two and maybe the TASK you want to do might not be done within 15 minutes? I know what you’re thinking; duh! We have Ec2 for larger tasks and yes but do you not feel that it gets a little tricky maintaining Ec2 sometimes cause...
Publishing a React website on AWS with AWS amplify and AWS CloudFront with Custom Domain (Part 2)
This post is a part of the series which will help you publish your React based project/website on AWS using AWS Amplify and AWS CloudFront. This part will walk you through the steps to setup AWS CloudFront so that you can access your website using any domain of your own. If you want to learn about how to upload your React project on AWS using AWS Amplify or if you just want to follow along with...
Publishing a React website on AWS with AWS amplify and AWS CloudFront with Custom Domain (Part 1)
In the modern world, we are very much dependent on the internet. And one of the best ways to reach a person is via a website. It’s very easy to build websites using React. But most of the time, people find it hard to deploy the website on a reliable service where there is almost zero downtime and which is very cost-effective. AWS can provide us those features. Anyone can deploy any react project on AWS...
AWS Lambda Function in GoLang
AWS Lambda is a well known and great cloud Function as a Service (FaaS). And Google’s GoLang is a statically typed, compiled programming language. It is widely popular for it is being super fast and it’s built-in concurrency. In this blog post, we will discuss how we can use GoLang in the AWS Lambda function. In this demonstration, I’m using Go1.15. Following things are assumed: You know how to setup GoLang for development in Unix systemsYou are familiar with AWS Lambda As Go is a compiled language, we cannot use the...
Terraform support for job templates and output presets of AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a media transcoding service of AWS. For supporting vast VOD service, MediaConvert is very useful and reliable. Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool which supports multiple Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Unfortunately due to a lot of configurations of MediaConvert, terraform does not support MediaConvert resource and settings management yet. In this tutorial, we are going to take a look at how can we achieve this. MediaConvert Job Templates The job template is a part of...
Customizing Cognito verification emails with HTML using AWS Lambda
This has become very common to use AWS Cognito as an authentication system in modern days. Using Cognito, when a user signs up or gets an invitation from another user, he gets an email with password and verification codes. But the email is in simple plain text. But we can easily configure a lambda function that can customize and beautify this email according to our needs. To configure the lambda, first, we have to understand the...
Demystifying cron job through AWS lambda in Serverless
Some services like video upload to social media like Facebook, YouTube, etc via API need some time to process the request as it takes time to finish the processing of a video by Facebook or YouTube. At Craftsmen, for one of our customers we have a service API where users can send us requests with a video URL, and in which social media platform the video should be uploaded, our API will upload the video to...
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