AWS RDS MYSQL Playground
Do you need a reliable database platform to hammer out some new application ideas? Or, maybe you’d like to learn MYSQL in a disposable environment? This Hashicorp Terraform MYSQL RDS Module will build all the ...
Amazon SES Postfix Relay Docker Image
A Postfix Docker Image for use as SMTP Relay for Amazon SES. If you have a legacy app that needs to send mail via Amazon SES, this might simplify your config!...
AWS Cloud HSM, Docker and NGINX
There is quite a bit of easily searchable content on the security benefits of leveraging a Hardware Security Module to manage cryptographic keys, so I will leave that to the scope of another article. The ...
Understanding Mutual TLS Options in the Public Cloud
When delivering an API over the public internet via a cloud provider, some organizations and frameworks require mutual TLS verification as a part of the interaction for that API. Mutual TLS can be used to ...
ML for Translating Dysarthria Speech (Pre-Part 1)
What is Dysarthria? Per the Mayo Clinic, Dysarthria occurs when the muscles you use for speech are weak or you have difficulty controlling them. Dysarthria often causes slurred or slow speech that can be difficult ...
Setup Spring DataSource from values stored in AWS Secret Manager
I was tasked migrating an application to AWS recently. The company wanted the application to store the database credentials in AWS’s Secret Manager. The issue that I had is that if I setup a configuration ...
Tracking Original URL Through Authentication
If you read my other post about refreshing AWS tokens, then you probably have a use case for keeping track of the original requested resource while the user goes through authentication so you can route ...
AWS CodeBuild Test Reports for Gradle builds
Although AWS documentation has instructions for adding Test Reports for a maven build they currently lack instructions for a gradle build. You can find the maven instructions here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/test-reports-with-aws-codebuild/ Assuming you have your gradle wrapper ...
Deploying a docker container to AWS Part 2
Check out Part 1 if you haven’t already, as this post assumes you’ve got a docker container running in AWS already. In addition, make sure you have the AWS CLI up and running. Using the ...
Deploying a docker container to AWS Part 1
AWS, with its ever growing collection of services, seems to always have an answer to a problem. When it comes to hosting an application with docker, AWS has its Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS has ...