Published inAWS in Plain English·PinnedServerless Facial Recognition Voting Application Using AWS ServicesRecently I watched the recorded video of the Serverlesspresso team talk at 2022 Reinvent on the AWS Events Youtube Page. I got inspired and decided to take a cue from that video and other lessons from 2022 Reinvent and build an open-source project. The result? FacePolls, a Serverless Facial Recognition…Serverless9 min readServerless9 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·PinnedBuild a Chrome Extension to Monitor Messages and Reply on WhatsApp using JavaScriptI’ll show how, using JavaScript, I built a Chrome extension that tracks messages on WhatsApp chats and replies to them with my supplied responses. Sounds untrue? Well, you are not alone, I thought so myself until I built it. Let’s begin! In case you are only interested in the final…Tracker6 min readTracker6 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Mar 16Deploy a Node.Js Cloud Native Application to Amazon EKSIn this article, I show how to deploy a Cloud Native Node.js application to Amazon EKS via the AWS CLI. Amazon Elastic Container Registry(ECR) is used to store the built docker images. Prerequisites To better follow along with this article, you would need the following: Node.js 12 or above NPM AWS…AWS6 min readAWS6 min read
Published inFAUN Publication·Mar 3Backends For Frontends — My TakeWhat do you get when you have a lot of Microservices to fetch data from before displaying a result — Multiple network calls; add the need to display results based on the requesting client and it becomes a dilemma. Solution? Backends For Frontends(BFF) In this article, we would get to…Microservices5 min readMicroservices5 min read
Published inAWS in Plain English·Jan 9Setup a CI/CD Pipeline Using AWS CodePipeline to Deploy a Node.js Application to AWS Elastic BeanstalkIn this article, we would learn how to deploy a NodeJs application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using a CI/CD setup. It promises to be an exciting piece, sit tight! Prerequisites To better follow along with this article, you would need the following: Node.js 12 or above NPM An AWS account What we would learn CI/CD…AWS9 min readAWS9 min read
Published inAWS in Plain English·Dec 15, 2022Deploying a Containerized Node.js App Using KubernetesIn this article, we would learn how to Dockerize a NodeJs application and run it using Kubernetes. This is usually called a Cloud Native Application. Prerequisites To better follow along with this article, you would need the following: Node.js 12 or above NPM Docker What we would learn That being out of the way, we…Docker6 min readDocker6 min read
Published inFAUN Publication·Sep 6, 2022Event-driven architecture using Apache ActiveMQ, NodeJs, and DockerIn this article, we will learn how to set up an event-driven application using Apache ActiveMQ, NodeJs and Docker. This article shows how interdependent applications can communicate efficiently in a microservice architecture setup. Prerequisites To better follow along with this article, you would need the following: Docker already installed and setup …Nodejs6 min readNodejs6 min read
Published inFAUN Publication·Jun 2, 2022What’s the fuss about DynamoDB Single Table Design — My TakeAs someone who comes from a SQL background, believe me when I say, working with a NoSQL Database was at the very least of my desires. In this article, I give my take on the Why, How, and Benefits of using a Single Table Design in DynamoDB. I am assuming…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
Published inFAUN Publication·Mar 28, 2022Publish Events using SNS, SES, and the Serverless FrameworkIn this article, I would be showing how to use both the AWS SNS and SES to dispatch events, we would learn how to create a topic, trigger SNS to dispatch to the topic, and subsequently integrate SES to send emails once we receive the dispatched event. To help us…Serverless8 min readServerless8 min read
Published inFAUN Publication·Jan 7, 2022Managing environment variables in Serverless using AWS SSM Parameter StoreKeeping and managing environment variables(secrets, API keys, certificates, etc) has for long been a subject of debate amongst experts. From storage in .env files to managed git environment to the usages of third-party storage platforms. All in a bid to secure an application from external threats. In this article, we…Serverless7 min readServerless7 min read
