Author: Chad Michel
Getting Started with Azure B2C Identity Management
Users are essential for software, but managing users isn’t a unique value-add we are often providing with our software. Letting someone else manage users for us makes a lot of sense and saves many headaches. Thankfully there are many services that do this really well. One of those services is Azure Active Directory B2C. In…
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Beer && Code: One of Our Favorite Local Meetups
One of the great things about Lincoln is its growing number of educational opportunities centered around technology and software development. One of them is near and dear to our hearts: Beer && Code. Started by Don’t Panic Labs software engineer Branden Barber (aka Beebs around the office), this monthly get-together meets at various locations around…
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Setting Up iOS Push Notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
iOS push notifications are often a requirement for mobile applications. But this feature isn’t easy to set up. It involves several steps across various applications, online and locally. And if you’re developing for multiple platforms (i.e., iOS and Android), you can be in for even more work. But with Amazon’s Simple Notification Service (SNS), you…
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Developing Locally Against AWS-Hosted DynamoDB, Part 2
In my previous post, we got our code running locally and connecting to DynamoDB in the cloud. Now we are going to get our code connecting to DynamoDB also running locally. Why would we want to do this? Well, it gives us a great development experience. Each developer can have their own instance of DynamoDB…
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Developing Locally Against AWS-Hosted DynamoDB, Part 1
DynamoDB is a document storage technology hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We have used it for several projects, and it works pretty well for a lightweight document store. Calling DynamoDB from within the AWS ecosystem is pretty easy, but what about calling DynamoDB from the ground, or from your own machine? Why would you…
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Quick Look – AWS Cognito
Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes many common cloud services easy to create and maintain. One of the many AWS services really makes easy is supporting authentication. One of them, Cognito, is a platform for authentication within the cloud. Let’s walk through how to use Cognito along with AWS’s Amplify service to create an Angular application…
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Web Development – Executive Summary
Web development often involves a few components. First is developing the markup (HTML) that runs in a web browser. Second is developing the application style, which is often done using CSS. Third is some client-side application logic, possibly written in JavaScript. Fourth is a backend running on a server somewhere. One interesting aspect of web…
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Continuous Integration – Executive Summary
Continuous Integration (CI) is a strange concept from the perspective of an outsider. Some of our topics in software development make sense from the outside. Unit tests imply we are adding some value to our development process. Requirement gathering makes sense to almost anyone. But the concept of Continuous Integration seems a little bit like…
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Using a REST API with AWS, Part 3
In our previous blog posts (Part 1, Part 2), we have created some Lambda functions that query against a DynamoDB table. Now we will put an API gateway in from our services. One complication of hosting is the point of contact, between the callers and the service. In many systems, the callers call the services…
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Using a REST API with Amazon Web Services, Part 2
In our previous blog post, we started our project by setting up a Lambda function in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We didn’t dive very deep, we barely even described much about those Lambda functions. Our single Lambda returns all contacts in a table associated with a particular groupid. Now we are going to write three…
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