Posted on Tue 27 February 2018 in Articles • Tagged with aws, apigateway, rest
When I started working with Amazon's API Gateway service earlier today, this is not the title I expected the article would have.
If you read through documentation and blog articles by Amazon, it sounds like API Gateway is an awesome solution for serverless integrations with S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and even …
Posted on Fri 27 October 2017 in Articles • Tagged with kubernetes, docker, sftp
As part of our analytics solution at Ionic, my team was working on a system to push files to customer owned endpoints. We wanted to do a quick validation that pushed to a server outside our network was working.
We already had a test environment running locally with …
Posted on Thu 29 June 2017 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar
Yesterday I started getting a lot of emails from Amazon saying that there were issues with the ELB application that runs my Alexa App.
Something fishy with #ELB on @awscloud over the last 24 hours... (no changes to application and load is stable and low) pic.twitter.com …
Posted on Mon 02 January 2017 in Articles • Tagged with python, scraping, biblescholar
As with any data scraping tool, verifying correctness in BibleScholar's verse scraping utilities was pretty important. After my first run through verses, here is what I was seeing between versions. Note that this is before I added the ESV translation, which as you'll see below is the version with the …
Posted on Sun 01 January 2017 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar, ssl
In my last article I discussed how I created an Alexa application using AWS ElasticBeanstalk. I left off stuck in the last step of getting the site set up with a SSL certificate from a trusted CA.
In general AWS makes the process of setting up SSL for a site …
Posted on Sat 31 December 2016 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar
When I went to the AWS Re:Invent conference this November, every attendee got an Echo Dot. Since then I've been looking for something useful to do with it. So far I've been just asking Alexa about the weather, traffic, and (very corny) jokes.
Several of my long term side …
Posted on Wed 21 December 2016 in Articles • Tagged with agile, design
This article on agile was going around my company this morning: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/
I was originally typing up a response to the email chain, but decided to just make it into a blog post instead.
Agile is great as a communication structure. The ticket …
Posted on Mon 18 July 2016 in Articles • Tagged with engineering, optimization, constraints, robustness
Yesterday I went to Lowes with my wife to get pieces for a modular shelving unit we were installing in our laundry room. Instead of going with a pre-packaged shelving arrangement, we had decided to custom cut the shelving for a better fit. The store had several length options available …
Posted on Mon 04 April 2016 in Articles • Tagged with go, testing
This post is a summary of some of the best resources I've found for explaining how to test golang applications.
The first section of the article is a list of resources and what I learned from each one.
The second section is a high level summary of suggestions, as well …
Posted on Sun 27 December 2015 in Articles • Tagged with meta, this-blog
This post explains how I set up this blog.
I wrote this partly for myself to make sure I had a well documented way to configure development, and partly for my sister @woah_caitlyn so she could copy any useful parts to make sites for herself and for friends.