AWS Lambda is a service that confuses many people. For that reason, you may be wondering just how it works and how you’d use it to build a highly scalable event-driven application. And as someone who’s presumably no stranger to the internet, you must have seen the terms serverless,...

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post on ACloud Guru’s blog. You can check out the original here, at their site.

The innovation in the tech industry paved a new way for infrastructures as a service — bringing a new paradigm shift from infrastructure and hardware ownership to a...

A few days ago, I wanted to update millions of records in a MySQL database using Doctrine 2. I did a couple of searches and landed on this doctrine documentation. It suggests combining query iteration with batching strategy to achieve this.

For instance:

Today, we will be exploring destructuring assignment — one of the ES6 cool features. It provides a clean way of extracting items of an array or object or anything iterable.

#1 Destructuring basics

There are 2 sides to destructuring in ES6: the source and the template. The ‘source’ is the object...

With S3 pre-signed URLs, you can create short-lived URLs to upload objects to AWS S3. More often than not business requirements demand that objects are encrypted and sometimes with keys provided by the customer.

SSE-C option allows you to specify your own encryption keys, AWS automatically handles encryption and decryption...

If you are just starting to learn docker, one of the common questions that come to mind is what docker is and why one would need it. In this post, I provide basic answers to some of these questions and finally walk you through...

Lumen is one of the fastest PHP frameworks built from Laravel components and made especially for building APIs or web services. It’s faster and can handle more request per second than Laravel itself.

This is because Lumen is stripped down to bare minimum thus sacrificing flexibility for speed. By default,...

If you have made it to Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial, you deserve some accolades. And If you have not, you need to check 1 and 2 out.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on what we went through and how container technologies...

A few days ago, I came across a link to a post by Thomas Oppong where he exposes techniques he employs to read an entire book in a single day. I jumped at it like a hungry lion to uncover secrets that will make me read more and...

In part 1 of this tutorial, we built APIs for a simple todo application and now we are here to put the front end together with VueJS. Dont worry if you are new to VueJs. I wrote VueJs: The basics in 4 mins and...

In this tutorial, we will build the famous todo application with Node.Js using the ExpressJs framework and MongoDB. Did I forget to tell you? The app will be API centric and full-stack :).

In a...

Design patterns itself, are repeatable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design, one of which is observer pattern and usually applicable to an abstraction with two aspects such that a change in one object requires a change in one or multiple objects.

If you...

Last week, I published an article that shows few ways you can keep your code clean on Code burst. The article was shared multiple times on various social media. If you have not seen it yet, read it here.

Every developer can recognize good and well-crafted code...

It’s roughly a year now that we built an intrusion detection system on AWS cloud infrastructure that provides security intelligence across some selected instances using open source technologies.

As more instances were spun, real-time security monitoring became necessary. We wanted the capability to detect when someone attempts an SQL injection,...