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.
