Engineering Blog
Our blog contains posts related to work that we’re doing for our own services in addition to work done on behalf of our clients. Topics range from programming to cloud architecture.
Terraforming AWS API Gateway v2 with VPC Link Integration
Overview
We recently switched a client from an AWS API Gateway v1 to an HTTP v2 API. In API Gateway v1, each route…
How to hide Nginx web server version in responses
Asking for a web server’s version
There are many ways in which an attacker can find a vulnerability in a website.…
Converting a Java application from synchronous to asynchronous using CompletableFuture
Synchronous and asynchronous applications
In a synchronous application, each line of code is dependent upon the complete…
How to accidentally spend $600/month using AWS Cloudformation and Cloudfront
Cloudformation
I’m sure that there are many ways to accidentally spend more than intended using any cloud provider. Here…
Get a public URL for local websites with ngrok
Purpose of ngrok
Sometimes, you don’t know what you don’t know, which is probably the worst type of unknown.…
DynamoDB made easier with PynamoDB
Using the AWS SDK with DynamoDB
The AWS SDK for Python is well written, well documented, and makes it relatively easy to…
Kind-of an SEO guide: what we did wrong so you don’t have to
Getting started
This post is focused on some of the things that we learned about our website’s search rank and…
Using API Star to Quickly Create a Web API [how-to]
Introduction
There are several ways to create an HTTP-based API today, whether that’s using an API gateway…
Unit Testing Python Code that Uses the AWS SDK [how-to]
Unit Testing in Python
Creating unit tests in Python is an excellent way to not only regression test code but also…
Automating Tweets by Processing Events from S3 with AWS Lambda [how-to]
Getting Started
First, before you continue with this post, please read [part one]({{site.base_url}}{% link…
Monitoring Website Requests with Cloudfront
Measure All the Things
Metrics has been a popular concept, and word, for a few years now and justifiably so. Any…
Sending Events to AWS Lambda from S3
Focus
The primary focus of this post is to demonstrate how to trigger an AWS Lambda function when a new object is…
Hosting a Static Site on S3 with Cloudfront
It feels like it took a while to get here but Influential Code LLC is official. Our goal is to provide as much value…