Published inNBTL·May 30How CDK-nag can help your engineering teams improve & accelerateHow do you validate that your CDK infrastructure adheres to your company’s best practices? Imagine you’re building away in your application, creating all the necessary infrastructure. Is there a way you validate what you produce? Enterprise companies often have a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) that paves the way for…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published inNBTL·May 5Diving into AWS App RunnerWhat is it, and crucially, is it worthy of running our apps? 👨⚖️ Is AWS App Runner worthy of running our apps? The verdict To be honest.. Not really. It’s a great tool for non-enterprise users that are getting started with running their own workloads. However, the lack of an official CDK library (yes, looking at you experimental library) and…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inNBTL·Jan 24, 2022Generating text from audio using Amazon Transcribe and AWS LambdaIn this example, we will build an AWS Lambda function in Python that listens to an S3 bucket for audio uploads and automatically transcribes them using Amazon Transcribe. The whole application will be built using AWS’ CDK. Requirements We’re going to assume you have used AWS CDK before. First time? …AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
Published inNBTL·Oct 31, 2021🏦 Analyzing my monthly expenses with S3 triggers and AWS Lambda using AWS CDKAWS S3 offers event notifications that can send messages to your destinations upon a specific event. You can use these for things like data hygiene, extra security measures or low-cost serverless processing. Supported destinations for notifications include: Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) integrates it with virtually any significant system…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inNBTL·Oct 26, 2021Building a scraper Slack bot using Amazon EventBridgeI’m a big fan of vinyl records. I’m not sure where I got it from, but I’m picking up something new at least once a month. When buying these records, I prefer to stay away from the big shops like Amazon but go for the local dealerships. However, most of…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inNBTL·Oct 22, 2021Save time — Launch Pycharm (Jetbrains) from your terminalI’ll keep it short this time: the other day I was searching for the Jetbrains equivalent of code . to open up a project in my Jetbrains IDE through my terminal. I thought they must have something. The official documentation was a bit hard to find and outdated but it’s…Jetbrains2 min readJetbrains2 min read
Published inNBTL·Sep 22, 2021Getting started with AWS CDKAWS CDK is here to stay. It allows you to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. If AWS is a toolbox, CDK is the machinery to operate it. …Aws Cdk2 min readAws Cdk2 min read
Published inNBTL·Sep 19, 2021How to use Docker in AWS Lambda with CDK?Size. Much more size. With Docker images you can package and deploy Lambda functions as container images of up to 10 GB in size. In this way, you can also easily build and deploy larger workloads that rely on sizable dependencies, such as machine learning or data intensive workloads. In…Aws Cdk3 min readAws Cdk3 min read
Published inNBTL·May 12, 2021Using external DNS providers with Route53 & AWSAmazon Route 53 is AWS’s highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. The design gives developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications. However, many companies will already have hosted their DNS with another party before starting AWS…Route 534 min readRoute 534 min read
Published inNBTL·May 7, 2021☁️ Using external libraries in your Python AWS Lambda in AWS CDKAre you including external libraries in your Python Lambda with AWS CDK? You’ll be looking to install your dependencies from your requirements.txt. How do you make sure these external libraries are available at runtime for your execution? By using @aws-cdk/AWS-lambda-python. What can you expect? We’ll walk through what the requirements.txt is…Aws Cdk3 min readAws Cdk3 min read
