LocalStack I recently needed to be able to test a lambda function locally. Whilst its possible to do this in AWS, the feedback loop was frustratingly long. To speed this up, I decided to leverage LocalStack. This was a fairly interesting exercise so I thought I would share my notes around getting this set-up in the hope that it helps someone! You can find the example code referenced throughout this guide here....
Say what? A recent work project utilised the power of Amazon’s MemoryDB to build a distributed caching layer (if you wish to find out more about Amazon MemoryDB see here). Under the hood, MemoryDB effectively provides a Redis Cluster running in the cloud. The project in question is written primarily in Java and executes as a series of Lambda functions running within a couple of Step Functions. As part of some improvement work carried out on the project we abstracted any execution of Redis commands into a custom repository layer, built on top of the excellent Lettuce library....
GraphQL, MongoDB and Java: An introduction TLDR; Follow the guide below if you are interested in an up to date walkthrough on how to integrate GraphQL, MongoDB and Java - if not head over to my GitHub to view the code. I decided to create this article as although a lot of guides exist today they were either incomplete, irrelevant or out-dated. After struggling to decipher existing tutorials I thought I would contribute my findings back in hope someone would find them useful…...