Most of my blog posts are about AWS, Serverless, Fullstack Development, and Indiehacking. I love to document the journey on how we are building Hashnode, how I tackle different Indiehacking projects, and teach fundamentals about AWS.
I started writing in 2021 and have published 64 posts since then.
💡 In this blog post, we talk about the importance of multi-accounts and how the Observability Access Manager (OAM) can help us with that. If you want to get started with code check out our accompanying GitHub repository. When expanding your work w...
In this article, we talk about Step Function Workflows. One major use case that Step Functions enable is the Wait for Callback pattern. Code Included This edition comes with a special bonus - for the first time, we're including a GitHub repository ju...
Hey 👋🏽 long time no see! Yesterday marked a special day in my calendar because exactly one year ago we published the book: AWS Fundamentals - AWS for the Real World. It is a book aimed at developers, managers, and tech people, who want to learn mor...
One essential feature of any blogging platform is the ability to schedule posts for publication. Hashnode introduced this functionality in June 2022. At that time, the entire feature was based on a CRON job. This CRON job managed all various states a...
AWS offers many great messaging services. Two of their most famous services are Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). While both can be used in a pretty similar way they are completely different services. Thi...
AWS SQS Retention Period is one of the main parameters to configure when working with SQS and queues. Let's see what it means and how to configure it best. Let's go. AWS Simple Queue Service AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a distributed messaging s...
The read APIs are now publicly available for everyone to use 🎉 Let's see what we can build with them using some example code. Here are six recommendations: 1/ Host your Blog on a subpath I think one of the most requested features on Hashnode os the ...
This article gives you an overview of the architecture of Hashnode. The goal of this article is to give you a broad architecture of our involved services. Overall Architecture This is our overall architecture. A request starts on the user's side. It...
This article gives you an overview of the AWS CLI and which operations you can do with it for AWS's awesome Simple Queue Service (SQS in the following). We start with some basic introductions to SQS, CLIs, and the AWS CLI. Then we'll focus on operati...
Rate Limits are a vital part of every API. Especially, since we operate quite a lot of public and unprotected APIs we need to rate limit them. Implementing Rate limits based on IP addresses is fairly easy, especially with Amazon API Gateway and Amazo...
Introduction Amazon EventBridge is one of the newer services in AWS which launched back in 2019. Before the launch, the service existed with fewer features as CloudWatch Events. EventBridge makes it easier to build Event-Driven architectures by integ...
Infographic Introduction CloudWatch is the monitoring service of AWS. It consists of several products including: Logs - All native AWS services log directly to CloudWatch Metrics - You get several system metrics in CloudWatch Dashboards - Dashboa...
Introduction CloudWatch is the primary logging and metrics service for AWS. Every AWS service logs data into CloudWatch. CloudWatch gathers metrics, such as the quantity of Lambda invocations, available storage in your database, or the amount of CPU ...
TLDR; Here is a quick summary of this blog post in an infographic. Introduction Brief Overview of CloudWatch Synthetics CloudWatch Synthetics is one of the lesser-known services in AWS. Synthetics allow you to create so-called Canaries. Canaries are...
TLDR; Infographic Introduction Amazon CloudWatch is the service that is used in almost every AWS application. But still, many developers and administrators out there are not very familiar with how to analyze their logs more efficiently. That's why s...
TLDR; Here is a quick overview 😉 Introduction CloudWatch Overview Amazon CloudWatch is the application monitoring service within AWS. Almost all AWS services send metrics and logs directly to CloudWatch, making CloudWatch the central monitoring pla...
Introduction AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring and logging service that allows businesses to track and analyze their AWS resources, applications, and services. CloudWatch consists of several products such as CloudWatch Metrics: Store & Analyze your AWS...
Introduction CloudWatch and CloudTrail are two services that often get confused with each other. While both are doing completely different things, this post will show you what each service does and when to use which one. Both services are monitoring ...
GraphQL handles error codes a bit differently compared to REST Apis. While we still get HTTP response codes like 200 OK 400 Bad Request 500 Server Error It often happens that an error happened even if we received a 200 status code. This blog pos...
AWS CloudWatch is one of the basic services within AWS. It doesn't matter which type of application you are working on, you need to master CloudWatch. CloudWatch provides real-time data and actionable insights to improve the performance and availabil...