Rehan van der Merwe

In this post I will explore 4 different methods that can be used to pass configuration values to the AWS CDK. We will first look at using the context variables in the cdk.json file, then move those sa...

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Demonstrating DynamoDBs high throughput rate, by writing 1 million records in 60 seconds with a single Lambda function streaming from a S3 file and then importing into DynamoDB using the Batch API

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We use CloudFront running a SPA to reverse proxy to an API Gateway backend. This eliminates CORS which can hugely decrease request latency up to 50%.

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This article documents the thought process and steps involved in refactoring a distributed monolith to microservices. We are going to remove API GW, use Amazon Event Bridge and implement BASE consiste...

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A CDK construct that consists of a serverless backend, frontend and client side code to track website analytics

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The client library that is used to ingest data into the backend of the https://github.com/rehanvdm/serverless-website-analytics CDK component

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