Avdi Grimm, Code Cleric
The problem with infinitely flexible building blocks is that there are always a half-dozen well-documented ways to do things wrong. I wanted my AWS Lambda app (I refuse to call…
In which I get an AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) hello-world app up and running in a reproducible Docker dev container (with code on Github)!
If you’ve used the RightAWS tools to talk to Amazon Web Services, you’ve probably seen this warning before: warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session No one…
The only way to retrieve multiple items at a time, along with their attributes, from Amazon SimpleDB is with the Select operation. Typically, you query for some property of the…
So I was profiling our app the other day and discovered it was spending a significant amount of time in REXML. “REXML?” I thought. “Who uses REXML in 2009?” For…
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been updating the DataMapper SimpleDB adapter for DataMapper 0.10, an effort which yesterday culminated in the release of version 1.0.0. Testing against Amazon SimpleDB…
Just a quickie today. Amazon SimpleDB has no built-in way to copy a domain – for the purposes of backing it up, for instance, or for populating a development domain…