Finding the most and least frequent list elements in JavaScript

The Problem

I love working through the Advent of Code puzzles, this year I decided it was a good opportunity to learn some JavaScript. Having only ever done some very basic stuff with JS before, there’s no time like the present

Triggering a Cloudflare Cache Purge from S3 Object Events

The Challenge

I’ve have been looking at some cost and performance improvements in some of my infrastructure. This particular environment is essentially a handful of websites which use some shared static assets that reside in an S3 bucket think assets.website.com which is used by website.co.uk, website.nl and website.ie.

CI/CD Agnostic, mono-repo pipelines for Firebase (Hosting, Database & Functions)

I have been trying to teach myself how to build a simple Node.JS API with a NoSQL backend. A few of my colleagues mentioned that Google’s Firebase is probably the easiest place to start and off I went.

Starting with Terraform: Taxing, Tangled & Troublesome

One of the first tools I picked up walking in to the DevOps world was Terraform, I found it a bit challenging to get to grips with one major concept. The language itself is easy enough to get to grips with but actually structuring anything slightly complex just didn’t click for me.

Unified authentication with AWS Cognito!

Attempts to minimise the number of credentials required is becoming more and more common, particularly with the adoption of social logins. Many well known services are backing off their authentication mechanisms to Google, Facebook, GitHub etc and passing a session token back to the initial site.