I have been operating a tree of millions of nodes in PostgreSQL. Here are some of the things I wish I knew before I started.

Do's and Don'ts of Storing Large Trees in PostgreSQL

A spambot spammed our signup endpoint, causing our AWS SES account to be blocked. I implemented a fixed-window rate limiter in Node.js / TypeScript for Curveball to prevent the attack from happening again.

Rate Limiting Saves the (Sun)day

Ship your AWS ECS Fargate logs directly to Mezmo using AWS Firelens and Fluent Bit, without going through CloudWatch Logs. This will save you a lot of money.

Shipping ECS logs to Mezmo (LogDNA) with AWS Firelens and Fluent Bit

This blog uses Next.js and used to be deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I have since migrated it over to Vercel. In this article, I explain why I migrated and why you too might want to consider Vercel.

Next.js: You might want to use Vercel

Structuring a Golang project for deployment on AWS Lambda with API Gateway using AWS SAM to avoid serverless copy-paste everywhere.

Structuring Golang for AWS Lambda and API Gateway: Modular Monolith

I go over how we can read values from AWS Parameter Store in an AWS Lambda function with a code example in Golang.

Using AWS Parameter Store with AWS Lambda

Tutorial on writing our own DynamoDB Stream consumer using the low-level DynamoDB Stream APIs without using AWS Lambda triggers or the Kinesis adapter.

Consuming a DynamoDB Stream without AWS Lambda

Go 1.18 is about to come out and bring generics to Go. No more passing interface{} all over the place for no good reason. This article is a quick introduction to generics in Go for the noobs out there.

Go got generics

AWS Route 53 sends you Nigerian Prince spammy-looking emails and suspends your website if you don't click the links in them. My domain was suspended. Let's reflect on what went wrong.

My domain was suspended

An introduction to storing hierarchical tree and graph data structures in a PostgreSQL database, using recursive CTE, ltree materialized paths and other schema design techniques.

Modeling Hierarchical Tree Data in PostgreSQL

This tutorial walks you through setting up a minimal CI/CD pipeline for an AWS Elastic Beanstalk app using GitHub Actions.

Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with GitHub Actions

An in-depth walkthrough on deploying a Next.js app with Docker and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, from Dockerizing Next.js to going live.

Deploying a Dockerized Next.js app on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Deploying a Next.js app with Docker and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

We walk through how I built this blog, going over the design and organization of the project and how Next.js, TypeScript and MDX come together in this blog that you are reading.