Arthur Lewis – Medium

Nov 12

Solving the chicken and egg problem — Setting up a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for Nginx

Setting up a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for Nginx deployed in a docker-compose low-memory environment. — While working on my skill showcase project Palette Hub, I ran into a problem setting up a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on a Docker Compose deployment. Let’s Encrypt offers free automatic SSL certificates using their certbot. You install cerbot on your server and Let’s Encrypt validates you own the domain.

Nginx

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Nginx

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Dec 22, 2022

Switching from Base64 to pre-signed S3 URLs using AWS API Gateway and Lambda functions

While working on my senior capstone project, I encountered an issue with our REST API integrated with Lambda Functions. It was set up to send and receive a Base64 encoding of the file in the body for the upload and download endpoints. This worked for early tests with small files…

AWS

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Switching from Base64 to pre-signed S3 URLs using AWS API Gateway and Lambda functions

AWS

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Dec 20, 2022

Setting up a development and production AWS REST API Gateway using the same Lambda functions

Introduction For my senior capstone project, I was tasked with setting up a development and production environment on an existing REST API using AWS API Gateway integrated with Lambda functions. I did this using a combination of API Gateway stages and Lambda function aliases. Using different aliases on the same lambda…

AWS

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Setting up a development and production AWS REST API Gateway using the same Lambda functions

AWS

4 min read