I recently switched to Golang for my language of choice. (In my previous blog you can read why.) But I am also a big fan of test driven development. With Python you have a stubber that helps you mock the AWS API. So how do you do this in Golang? I found 2 ways to do this. One via dependency injection and one via a stubber. In this blog I will share my experience so far.

I was sparked on a XKE to do a short experiment with using Golang for my AWS Lambda Functions. The trigger for this was something my colleague Mark van Holsteijn said. We where talking about sustainability. During this talk Mark made the comment that we should drop Python for our functions then. (He also recently wrote a blog on Golang using Golang for custom providers.)

Hugo is a great tool that let you build website fast and easy. It will render a complete static HTML version of your website. This makes it an ideal candidate to host it on a S3 Bucket. You can then use CloudFront to serve the content across the globe.

Managing more than one AWS accounts can become challenging. AWS Organizations provides a way to manage many accounts. You can automate account creation and management. If you use a naming schema you can leverage landingzone-organization! 

Use StepFunctions to simplify your serverless applications

AWS StepFunctions is a great orchestrating tool for your serverless applications. When you write lambda functions that only contain logic to perform a single task they are easier to test. Especially when there is no orchestration logic within your function. 

If you like blogging like me, you probably post your content on multiple places. For example, I post my content on xebia.com, conijn.io and dev.to. When you do not provide a canonical url search engines like Google are less likely to show your blog.

Did you ever ran into the scenario where you wanted to update files in a repository from your pipeline? I did, a couple of times actually!

I recently created a few blog post on how you can build, deploy and host an application on AWS. This blog post is all about handling DNS records in a cross account setup. You might think AWS got you covered, but the sad reality is that they don’t. (when dealing with cross account use cases.)

A while ago I wrote how you can host your own single page application on S3. But how will you get your application on the S3 bucket? There are a couple of options here, you could upload it by hand? But we both know that is not the real solution here. No we want to automate this process! In this blog post I will show you how you can automate this using AWS CodePipeline.