With the addition of JPA entities to the weather data collection project I’ve been writing about recently, all of the pieces are finally in place and it all works as I had intended. …

What I learned while implementing JSON logging in my Spring Boot-enabled Java Lambda function. — As I was working on my weather data collecting AWS Lambda function, I came across an article suggesting structured JSON logging as a best practice for using CloudWatch logs. In this article, I’ll go over what I learned while implementing such logging in my Spring Boot-enabled Java Lambda function. Since…

No, CloudFormation isn’t going away, but I’m absolutely done with it! I wasn’t planning on writing this article for a while, but after a rough couple weeks at work struggling with CloudFormation (CF) I’m ready to rip it all out of my little weather data project. I’ve decided to use…

Spring Boot is a Java framework that offers a lot of benefits for developers. It provides a streamlined development experience and reduces the amount of boilerplate code needed. It comes with built-in support for monitoring and management tools, caching, data validation, and security. The framework has a large and active…

In previous articles, I showed you how to store a password in AWS Secrets Manager and how to deploy an AWS Lambda function with SAM. This tutorial is going to build on both of those articles so if you haven’t read them, you might want to start there. Now that…

In my previous two articles, I showed you how to deploy a Java function as an AWS Lambda using AWS SAM and how to stand up a MySQL RDS instance using Terraform. My larger goal is to show you how to set up a system leveraging Spring Boot and other…

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows developers and system administrators to manage infrastructure resources in a declarative and version-controlled manner. With Terraform, you can define your infrastructure as a set of declarative configuration files, which can be used to create, update, and delete resources across…

I’ve found that AWS SAM is a simple way to deploy and manage an AWS Lambda function and it’s associated services. In this article, I’ll describe what I learned as I used it for a bare bones deploy of a simple Lambda function. The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is…

Hi, I’m Paul Eggerling-Boeck. I’ve been in the software development industry for over 25 years. In that time, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a wide range of employers and clients, and I’ve used my expertise to design and implement RESTful APIs, web applications, big data ETL systems, and…