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A javascript application designer must structure her app to asynchronously load configuration and bootstrap its modules at startup. The as...

Introduction An API gateway on AWS provides a scalable and serverless platform for deploying an HTTP API backed by a lambda function , ser...

In nodejs if you have a Bin package that depends on a Lib package, and before publishing a new version of Lib you want to test that l...

There is a small trick to configure an expressjs middleware function to capture a request's run time and status. Here it is: const ...

CICD is awesome. It automates the tasks we want to perform whenever we push code to our repository: test linting audit third party dep...

I host a little website at https://apps.frickjack.com by publishing static web files to an S3 bucket behind a cloudfront CDN. One way to i...

There are many good libraries for developing automated software tests, but we also want to allow non developers to specify test plans and ac...

You just got your brand spankin' new AWS account, and your team is launching like a rocket into the cloud. How should you set this accou...

AWS recently introduced its EKS managed kubernetes service which manages the kubernetes control plane ( API and Etcd services), while th...

I just published a new JSON web token (JWT) parser app under apps.frickjack.com . There's nothing special about this app - it's ...

I recently updated apps.frickjack.com to use unbundled javascript modules to load custom elements and style rules. It worked great, exce...

Running jasminejs tests of javascript modules in a browser is straight forward, but requires small adjustments, since a module loads asyn...

Last week I rolled out an update to apps.frickjack.com that changes the plumbing of the site. The javascript is now organized as un...

First, there's probably a better way to do this with kubectl rollout , but I didn't know that existed till last week. Anyway ......

I've been doing devops work over the last few months at CDIS . One of the tasks I worked on recently was to extend the nginx configur...

I recently setup a Jenkins CICD service to complement the Travis based automation already in use where I work . I worked with job-based J...

I had some fun over the last week setting up a docker image for an S3-copy utility, and integrating it into the gulp build for https://apps....

I've discussed before how I run https://apps.frickjack.com on S3 , but one issue I did not address was how to version updates, so that...