api-gateway
9 posts
A comprehensive technical guide to Amazon Cognito's advanced features including custom authentication flows, federation patterns, multi-tenancy architectures, migration strategies, and production-grade security implementation.
Learn how to build a comprehensive testing strategy for AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions with practical patterns for fast feedback and production reliability.
Learn to build automated preview environments using AWS CDK, Lambda, and GitHub Actions for seamless PR testing and review workflows
A technical case study on implementing multi-version APIs in production. Failed approaches, working solutions, and CDK patterns for managing API evolution.
Setting up a production-grade link shortener with AWS CDK, DynamoDB, and Lambda. Real architecture decisions, initial setup, and lessons learned from building URL shorteners at scale.
Building the redirect engine, analytics collection, and API Gateway configuration. Real performance optimizations and debugging strategies from handling millions of daily redirects.
Why I moved from Express.js to Lambda, the costly mistakes I made along the way, and the TypeScript patterns that saved my team thousands in AWS bills.
Deep dive into migrating Lambda functions, API Gateway configurations, request validations, and error handling from Serverless Framework to AWS CDK with practical examples.
How a 'simple' API change broke an enterprise client integration overnight, why documentation drift causes real problems, and a practical system that generates OpenAPI specs from Zod schemas automatically.