How to harden your premium Content Deliver Network

Prelude If you miss the beginning of my series, here’s my article about how to build an e-learning platform on AWS. Otherwise, if you are following this serie, the last time we build our backend to safely produce and store our HLS contents (if you miss it, follow the link). If you want to provide premium content you have put in place a solution to ensuring secure and efficient distribution of premium content to end-users....

July 15, 2023 · 8 min

Building an e-learning platform on AWS

Prelude In the past year, I worked on a project to build an e-learning platform (actually, it’s so much more!). I started using AWS Amplify, and I end up testing so many different services around it. I’ll cover the following topics: Choosing the right AWS services; Designing the application architecture; Developing the backend; Developing the frontend; Deploying the application; I hope this article will be helpful for anyone who is considering building an e-learning platform or something similar....

April 17, 2023 · 6 min

From Cloudformation to CDK: the good, the bad and the evil

Prelude As you know might be aware of, AWS has quite recently delivered - but it’s still in beta - the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Indeed, you should also know that I more recently migrated my blog to AWS as part of my migration strategy to the clouds - where my head already sits since 1991. Since I was using a Cloudformation stack though together with one of my colleagues, and since I did some manual changes to it - breaking the rules, I know - I decided it was a good moment to give a chance to CDK....

March 25, 2019 · 14 min

A serverless blog using CodePipeline, s3 and CloudFront

Goodbye old blog 😭😭 I disapperead for a while because as you should notice, first of all - I have a new domain. HAHA. It’s not the first one I own, but to be honest it’s the first time I use a domain for myself. So as I was saying yes, this post is about a migration. Morever, since this is the very first cross platform cross domain blog post - I want to share with you what I learnt and what is still missing, how I did what I did but mainly how someelse did what I didn’t....

February 24, 2019 · 8 min