by Chad Michel | Mar 26, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Azure Cosmos DB is a fantastic technology. It provides a very robust document database with multiple query languages supported. But as with many cloud technologies, it has the problem of only being able to run from the cloud (obviously). Thankfully, some cloud...
by Chad Michel | Mar 19, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Chad Michel | Mar 5, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Chad Michel | Feb 26, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Chad Michel | Feb 19, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Chad Michel | Jan 23, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
