AWS

Proper URLs for your SPA on S3 behind Cloudfront

In this post I’ll show you how to use Lambda@Edge to give JavaScript frontends (“Single Page Applications”) on AWS S3 behind Cloudfront proper URLs even when all you have is a single HTML file and some JavaScript.

October 10 2020AWS

Devops! Dev? Ops!

There is currently no shortage of companies in the IT world boasting about doing Devops. But are they really? If the solution is a “devops team” or job ads for “a devopser,” unfortunately the chances of getting the best that devops has to offer are slim.

December 17 2019AWS

When the AWS Bill Skyrockets

It’s easy to get up and running in the cloud. Unfortunately, it’s also much too easy to end up in a situation where you’re practically throwing money in Amazon’s direction. What do you do when you discover that the AWS bill is much higher than you expected?

September 25 2019AWS

AWS Free Tier

This is a short story about how EFS almost killed our Kubernetes cluster, and how you can avoid ending up in the same pickle — even if you don’t use EFS.

July 24 2019AWS, EFS