How We Built a Social Stats Dashboard Using SST and Next.js
This article covers the first steps towards the vision of a customized dashboard with easy-to-understand statistics that gives us an overview of our AWS Fundamentals community. Because you have to kno...
AWS re:Invent 2024: Top 10 Announcements by Ian McKay
We're approaching the end of AWS re:Invent 2024, and we've seen impressive releases. Here are the top 10 announcements I find most impactful for this yearโs AWS re:Invent!
๐ก Ian McKay is an AWS Comm...
Real-Time Feature Toggles with AppConfig
Thereโs a common and critical trap that solo founders, indie hackers, startups, and even large enterprises tend to fall into: they tend to build features that users do not actually need or want.
Most...
OpenTelemetry on AWS: Observability at Scale with Open-Source
Using a real-world project in The CloudWatch Book, we walk you through implementing your observability stack using CloudWatch. Our goal is to provide you with deeper insights into the functionality of...
Polling vs. WebSockets with Amazon API Gateway
Fast data exchange if often a necessity in web applications. But how to choose between Polling and WebSockets? Understanding the nuances between these two communication methods is important, as they b...
DynamoDB is one of the most popular services on AWS. You don't need to manage anything: there are no containers to keep running, no database connection pools to worry about, and none of the usual conc...