Getting Started: Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app (2021 Edition)

This is the revised 2021 version of my Intro to AWS Amplify: Build a multi-tenant SaaS app Series originally developed as part of an event organised by the Melbourne AWS Programming and Tools Meetup. For this 2021 edition, I’ve done a complete update to cover off all the changes in Amplify over the last 2 years and included some additional tips around using cloud9.

Writing your first CloudFormation Template

If you’ve spent any time in the land of DevOps over the last few years you will have no doubt heard of the term “Infrastructure as Code”… The idea of defining your infrastructure environment in source code so that it’s easier to track changes and manage versions over time.

An Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

If you’ve spent any time in the land of DevOps over the last few years you will have no doubt heard of the term “Infrastructure as Code”… The idea of defining your infrastructure environment in source code so that it’s easier to track changes and manage versions over time.

Cloud Lego with the AWS CDK

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Learn how the AWS CDK empowers development teams to write infrastructure-as-code using the general purpose programming languages they already know.

Fast Feedback 101 [DevOps Series]

Today, I’m going to talk about fast feedback, what it is, why it’s important, and walk through an example of how we made it happen in one of our own projects.

As I write this, I’m currently waiting for a Cloudformation script update to deploy a lambda version of a product to a development environment. This is an implementation of Infrastructure as Code, where code stored in version control defines how we build, deploy, and run our product. There’s just one problem.