How to: create a fleet of container-based-go-lambda with one command

         coding · golang · aws      coding · aws · lambda · golang · grafana · sentiment · analysis

Introduction As you might know, at the re:Invent AWS recently announced the capabilities of running Lambda by getting the code directly from a docker image you provide, as illustrated here. Moreover, they also announced the Amazon ECR Public and Amazon ECR Public Gallery that you can reach at https://gallery.ecr.aws/. And this was pretty much my reaction: What you might need to know before begin First of all: keep calm, because there’s already a Github Repo to build an entire fleet of microservices - with their respective ECR-based repository - with only one command from the shell.

My team run VSC in the browser and they are just fine - Part II

         coding · aws · immutable      coding · aws · cloudformation · guide · route53 · cfn-init · vsc · traefik

Introduction This is a repost of an old article :) In the first part of this series - I run VSC in the browser and I was just fine - I wrote many stupid things around the possibility of having a VSC server instance running inside AWS over a simple, immutable, ec2 instance. The template {that can be easily deployed by a Lambda function [that can be easily deployed behind a route53 record (that can be easily placed as the endpoint of a custom Slack action)]} let you start your IDE and code from wherever you would like to.

I run VSC in the browser and I am just fine - Part I

         repost · coding · aws · immutable      coding · aws · cloudformation · guide · route53 · vsc · cfn-init

Introduction This is a repost of an old article - that actually also inspired my talk of the last year at FullStackConf2019 :) Serverless and managed things are the best choices if you don’t want to deal with infrastructure (3 2 1: fight) buuuuut…even immutable things are not so bad for this purpose - at least, if they are immutable for real 🤣 Today I wanna talk about a useful way to run an instance(s) of VSC server in AWS and code from everywhere (yes, even your iPad): let’s start!

A Golang Turing machine library

         repost · coding · golang · miscellaneous · algorithms      coding · golang · busy-beaver · tibor · computational · theory

Preamble This is a repost of an old article :) In 1962, Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó introduced the Busy Beaver competition for Turing machines: in a class of machines, find one which halts after the greatest number of steps when started on the empty input. Even if it could seem trivial, the Busy Beaver competition has implications in computability theory, the halting problem, and complexity theory. I decided to use GoLang to implement a Turing machine library and accomplish three goals: first, having a Turing Machine model to play with for learning purpose; second, learning how to use interfaces and the factory pattern, other then testing package to test my code and let it be more flexible for future enhancement (at least I hope!

?(DRY(KIS(afe)S)) => CF(ALB+TLS+SM);

         coding · aws      coding · aws · guide · alb · ecs · fargate

Intro If you work with AWS, you might be involved in building infrastructure to enable some of your customers (both internal and external) to use a particular service, or just to try one of the hundreds open-source application available on Github. Furthermore, most of the ML/AI tools are shipped in docker containers and the philosophy -> if it runs on docker, it runs everywhere has been spread up to the highest level of management (nice, but… sometimes dangerous 😅 ed.

A monadic reasoning around function composition in Golang

         coding · golang      coding · golang

Introduction Function composition is something we as developers do every day, more or less. This concept come from Mathematics: if you search on Wikipedia, you find out that function composition is an operation that takes two functions $$f$$ and $$g$$ and produces a function $$h$$ such that $$h(x) = g(f(x))$$. In this operation, the function $$g$$ is applied to the result of applying the function $$f$$ to the input $$x$$. That is, the functions $$f: X \rightarrow Y$$ and $$g: Y \rightarrow Z$$ are composed to yield a function that maps $$x$$ in $$X$$ to $$g(f(x))$$ in $$Z$$.

The await/async concurrency pattern in Golang

         coding · golang      coding · golang · channel · goroutine · algorithms · benchmark

Introduction First of all…happy new year! I decided after a while to come back online speaking about Golang. In this post, I will focus on parallelism and concurrency and how you can achieve the same behavioral pattern you can achieve with Node.js using await/async statements, without the difficulties (hopefully) of dealing with Single Threaded Event Loop and these primitives (that, btw, keep things really simple). Let’s start! A bit of confusion Concurrency and parallelism are two terms that are bound to come across often when looking into multitasking and are often used interchangeably.

My team run VSC in the browser and they are just fine - Part II

         coding · aws · immutable      coding · aws · cloudformation · guide · route53 · cfn-init · vsc · traefik

Introduction In the first part of this series - I run VSC in the browser and I was just fine - I wrote many stupid things around the possibility of having a VSC server instance running inside AWS over a simple, immutable, ec2 instance. The template {that can be easily deployed by a Lambda function [that can be easily deployed behind a route53 record (that can be easily placed as the endpoint of a custom Slack action)]} let you start your IDE and code from wherever you would like to.

I run VSC in the browser and I am just fine - Part I

         coding · aws · immutable      coding · aws · cloudformation · guide · route53 · vsc · cfn-init

Introduction Serverless and managed things are the best choices if you don’t want to deal with infrastructure (3 2 1: fight) buuuuut…even immutable things are not so bad for this purpose - at least, if they are immutable for real 🤣 Today I wanna talk about a useful way to run an instance(s) of VSC server in AWS and code from everywhere (yes, even your iPad): let’s start! This time I will go native: so no CDK, I’m sorry, but pure Cloudformation instead.

A serverless OCR with Polly and Rekognition unveils the power of stack inheritance in CDK

         coding · aws · serverless      coding · aws · cdk · guide · serverless · polly · rekognition

Introduction In the last two weeks, I released a few CDK stacks: I made some experiments around API Gateway and service integration that came out in two serverless forms, the Contact Form and the Upload Form, read to be deployed in your static web page 😎. Actually, with CDK you can do so much more and so much more easily. The last stack I released - a producer-consumer chain presented here - it was a way I used to introduce how you can leverage Typescript inheritance to recycle an old stack and build on top of it.