Required Reading

This article talks about allowing access to a linux web app (previously app service) only via a CDN (Azure Front Door) for security and caching reasons. Here are the steps needed to make that happen with terraform: Create a front door instance with a backend (inside a backend pool of…

Github Actions make deployment super simple with its CI servers already having Docker and AWS setup. This article outlines how to use them for deploying a task definition with two containers. Prerequisites: You need to have ECR setup along with an ECS cluster (with an EC2) and a service inside…

Breakdown of some of the core principles regarding unit testing and modular code design — One of the most important skills that a developer has to have is the ability to write tests. Tests ensure that the code is robust and extensible/modular. Testing can be broadly classified into three categories: unit, integration and system (or E2E). A unit test is one which puts the spotlight…

This article provides an example of debounced and fuzzy search for filtering through a list of dealers. We will make use lodash.debounce for debouncing and fuse.js for fuzzy search. Lets dive into it! Our Dealer interface looks something like this: export interface Dealer { Id?: string; Name?: string…

This article will outline how to add NGINX as a reverse proxy in front of an app. We will pull SSL certificates from an S3 bucket and update them automatically using a cron job. Note: We are running the app and NGINX inside docker, and both are being deployed on…