… and run benchmarks to test auto-scaling — Earlier, I covered how to build a Serverless URL shortener application on AWS using DynamoDB, AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Build a Serverless URL Shortener With Go Using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gatewaybetterprogramming.pub In this blog post, we will deploy that as a REST API on AWS App Runner and continue to use DynamoDB as the database. AWS App Runner is a compute…

Build a WordPress deployment as a cdk8s construct — Constructs are the fundamental building block of cdk8s (Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes) — an open-source framework (part of CNCF) with which you can define your Kubernetes applications using regular programming languages (instead of yaml). In Getting started with cdk8s, you saw how to use the core cdk8s library. You…

Using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway — This blog post covers how to build a Serverless URL shortener application using Go. It leverages AWS Lambda for business logic, DynamoDB for persistence and API Gateway to provide the HTTP endpoints to access and use the application. The sample application presented in this blog is a trimmed down version…

Using CRDs as API — cdk8s (Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes) is an open-source framework (part of CNCF) using which you can define your Kubernetes applications with regular programming languages (instead of yaml). Some of the previous blogs on this topic covered the getting started experience and using cdk8s-plus library to further improve upon the…

Replicate DynamoDB data from one table to another — This blog post will help you get quickly started with DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda using Go. It will cover how to deploy the entire solution using AWS CDK. The use case presented here is pretty simple. There are a couple of DynamoDB tables and the goal is to capture…

Reducing boilerplate code with the “cdk8s-plus” library — One of my previous blog posts covered how to get started with cdk8s (Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes), which is an open-source framework (part of CNCF) using which you can define your Kubernetes applications using regular programming languages (instead of yaml). Write Your Kubernetes Infrastructure as Go Code — Getting Started With Cdk8s Use Go to define your Kubernetes applicationsbetterprogramming.pub

Use Go to define your Kubernetes applications — Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a well-established paradigm and refers to the standard practice of treating infrastructure (network, disk, storage, databases, message queues etc.) in the same way as application code and applying general software engineering practices including source control versioning, testing and more. …

Use change data capture with MSK Connect to sync data between Aurora MySQL and DynamoDB — This is the second part of the blog series which provides a step-by-step walkthrough of data pipelines with Kafka and Kafka Connect. I will be using AWS for demonstration purposes, but the concepts apply to any equivalent options (e.g. running these locally in Docker). This part will show Change Data…

Integrate DynamoDB with MSK and MSK Connect — There are many ways to stitch data pipelines — open source components, managed services, ETL tools, etc. In the Kafka world, Kafka Connect is the tool of choice for “streaming data between Apache Kafka and other systems”. It has an extensive set of pre-built source and sink connectors as well…