Until recently, my personal projects (including this blog) were hosted in Linode. At this point, private networking is a must-have for me, and Linode does not support it in a way that works well in practice (and this is a common complaint about the platform) - so I decided to create an AWS account and VPC for my stuff. I will outline everything I had to do to get it to work in this post.
Read more →Private subnets in an AWS VPC must be associated with a NAT gateway or a NAT instance to be able to access the internet. A NAT gateway will always be the best choice for a production environment - they are managed, highly scalable, and highly available. But NAT instances are still a good option for hobbyists who want to minimize their monthly cloud bill.
Read more →Lately I've been writing a lot of Lambda functions in C#, and I've found myself using a few patterns in particular over and over again with good results.
Read more →Web workers, which we already took a look at in a previous post, are very useful for parallelizing long-running CPU-bound work client-side so it doesn't freeze up a website while it's running. If you're using Webpack, you have the option of compiling your worker script as a separate bundle using the worker loader.
Read more →Webpack is an awesome tool for building and bundling your web assets, and I've used it in all of my web projects for a couple of years now. Although it's possible to use just Webpack and nothing else for your client-side builds, I've found that using it with a task runner like Gulp gives you the most flexibility and helps to keep your build pipeline as simple as possible.
Read more →I'm a full-stack developer with more than a decade of experience designing, building, deploying, and monitoring web applications and APIs. My specialties are AWS, JavaScript, and .NET. You can read more about me on the about me page.
This is my personal dev blog. Not everything I write about here is work-related or even useful, but I do try to keep it interesting.
