When working on applications, you want to focus on your business logic rather than spending your time on the mechanics of how to persist your data. If you are working in AWS, there is a good chance you are already […]
Occasionally you want to store information in a database with keeping versioning, so you will be able to retrieve previous versions of the record. In this example, we will use AWS DynamoDB and take advantage of some of its features. […]
My goal was finding an AWS service that will answer the following requirements: Store large amounts of data (split into small chunks) reliably. Accessible from multiple zones/regions. Low read/write latencies. Cheap enough. SQS is a powerful service that is really […]
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a scalable and fully managed message queuing service that allows users to transmit any amount of data through the web without administrative responsibility. Recently, I tried to evaluate whenever the SQS service will […]
In the previous blog post, I’ve described how to build a simple SMS notification system using DynamoDB, SNS and AWS Lambda. In this post, I’ll show how to change it in order to allow each user to choose whenever he […]
As many engineers in the industry, we have on-call duty. The on-call duty is defined at the beginning of each month and the list of the on-call engineers for each date can be found in an excel sheet. Well, this […]
As part of my day job, I write and compile a lot of code. My laptop is not that strong and I find myself wasting a lot of time on compilation. Then I asked myself, why shouldn’t I use the […]