Recently I had to deploy a new service to AWS ECS using CodePipeling with CodeCommit as a source provider. I struggled a bit with the imagedefinitions.json file and I decided to write this post to share the resources I used to understand the file format and how/when to generate it, and also to keep a reference for myself. About the service The service was a heat pump performance evaluation tool writen in Python as Web Application using Bokeh framework.

👋 Amazon DynamoDB is managed, serverless key-value NoSQL database that is quite popular among AWS users/developers. It is a great choice for applications that require low latency and flexible data models. When developing applications that use DynamoDB, it is a good idea to have a local instance of DynamoDB running on your machine. This will allow you to develop and test your application without having to connect to the cloud. In this short post, I will share how I set up DynamoDB for local development and for writing integration tests.

Dart Engine: Open source generic API protocol with a Node.js implementation for simple API creation. Problem As a Node.js developer when I need to create a new REST API to access a Data Store I need to go through a process of creating a project, find myself between all the existing packages, choose one, and do a bunch of configurations adhering to the package documentation. This process is very time-consuming and I always end up with a lot of repetitive code.