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β Reading time: 14 minutes π Main Learning: Feature Flags with AWS AppConfig πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ There's no other field where it's so common to have "a small side-project" like in the software industry. Even though it's possible to build things as quickly as ever before due to cloud providers, tools, platforms, and AI, many indie founders (and also large enterprises) tend to fall into the same trap: they tend to build features that users do not...
β Reading time: 17 minutes π Main Learning: Observability at Scale with Open-Source πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ Welcome to this edition of the AWS Fundamentals newsletter! In this issue, we're focusing on observability with open-source tools on AWS. As most of you already know, we can use Amazon CloudWatch and X-Ray to monitor our application from every angle. But what if we want to hybrid setup where we run certain parts of our ecosystem outside of AWS?...
β Reading time: 9 minutes π Main Learning: Polling or WebSockets: Choosing with Amazon API Gateway πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ What would you use for quick and regular data updates inside your web app? Or let's phrase it another way: how would you choose between Polling and WebSockets? π Understanding the nuances between these two communication methods is important, as they both come with their own advantages, gotchas, and side effects that are not very...