AWS – David Kryzaniak, LLC https://davekz.com The Trials and Tribulations of a Programming Ninja Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:46:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 43582094 Adding an API Key to your AWS SAM Deploy https://davekz.com/aws-sam-api-keys/ https://davekz.com/aws-sam-api-keys/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:46:19 +0000 https://davekz.com/?p=3810 The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI is a pretty slick way to start building microservices quickly. One thing I struggled with for a while was, how do I prevent bad people from accessing my API? This ended up being

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]]> https://davekz.com/aws-sam-api-keys/feed/ 0 3810 Serverless HTML to PDF API with AWS Lambda https://davekz.com/html-to-pdf-api/ https://davekz.com/html-to-pdf-api/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:43:46 +0000 https://davekz.com/?p=3701 Before you begin, I’ve had some bizarre issues getting this to work correctly on Windows. The zip file that gets uploaded to AWS has some odd permissions on it, which cause things to break. I recommend using OSX, Linux, or

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]]> https://davekz.com/html-to-pdf-api/feed/ 0 3701 Docker on Amazon Lightsail (Quick Install) https://davekz.com/docker-on-lightsail/ https://davekz.com/docker-on-lightsail/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2016 05:22:36 +0000 https://davekz.com/?p=1327 Amazon Lightsail is a new service on AWS which appears to be targeted at hosts like Digital Ocean and Linode. There’s a pretty neat “Launch Script” feature! Here’s a quick guide to automated Docker installs. Login to AWS, jump to

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]]> https://davekz.com/docker-on-lightsail/feed/ 4 1327 Scaling Out: WordPress and Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) https://davekz.com/wp-relational-database-service/ https://davekz.com/wp-relational-database-service/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:47:04 +0000 http://www.david.kryzaniak.com/?p=570 Like most ìmodernî content management systems, WordPress relies on a MySQL Database to store content. In most cases, this database is rather small. Only text like Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, and general settings are stored in this database. Images and other files are stored on the server by default. As sites grow, so does the content and, consequently, so does the number of queries to the database. MySQL is a very resilient system, but like most things, there is a point when it canít get any bigger, faster, or safer.

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]]> https://davekz.com/wp-relational-database-service/feed/ 3 570 Failover DNS and Route 53 = Zero Downtime https://davekz.com/failover-dns-and-route-53/ https://davekz.com/failover-dns-and-route-53/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:46:50 +0000 http://www.david.kryzaniak.com/?p=313 Just a few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services announced Failover DNS records in Route 53. I’ve played with them a little bit, and so far they’re amazing! This is useful because you shouldn’t need to worry about outages anymore. If

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