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tobilg··on Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
You might have a look at https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites to get a single command deploy including CDN and a domain
tobilg··on Ask HN: Is OpenAPI Documentation Superior?
You might also look at https://github.com/tobilg/api2html
tobilg··on Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL
For a readymade stack similar to what’s described in the article to self-host in your own AWS account have a look at https://ownstats.cloud
tobilg··on Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog
Great job, congratulations from an ex-Mesosphere colleague!
tobilg··on Ask HN: Do you still use test coverage reports
Thanks for the comprehensive answer. I have similar experiences, treating the coverage numbers as a KPI will eventually trigger difficult decisions in writing tests.

What I’m wondering is what would make „more sense“ if one wants to track the code quality and test coverage in a broader sense.

tobilg··on Ask HN: Do you still use test coverage reports
Interesting! Do you upload the reports somewhere and do you track the coverage over time?
tobilg··on AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples
Yes, that’s the way I’m seeing it as well. SLS is a much better fit when developing services with lots of integrations with other services IMO, with much less code than Terraform.
tobilg··on AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples
There’s CDK-TF that was already mentioned in another post. Apart from that I’m not sure what you mean with interoperability, because the resources can only be owned by one stack.

For sure stacks created with those frameworks can use resources that are created by Terraform in other stacks. Serverless for example has its own integration with the Parameter Store for encrypted variables, so that there’s no need to use environment variables in that use case. Terraform would then create the Paramter Store keys which SLS could reference.

tobilg··on AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples
I have personally have nothing against Terraform, and we’re using it for a lot of infrastructure-heavy things on our platform, but I think there are way better frameworks when deploying Lambda function.

Particularly the Serverless framework will save you A LOT of boilerplate IAC regarding all the event-driven integrations Lambda currently has to offer, and manages the full build and packaging cycle with the relevant language specific plugins, e.g. for Node or Python.

Others are the CDK, SAM or ARC.

tobilg··on AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
You might be interested in the new DynamoDB to S3 export feature announced this week: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-export-amazon-dynamodb-...
tobilg··on Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
If you have an AWS account, you can use https://ownstats.cloud to self-host website analytics
tobilg··on Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
See https://simpleit.rocks/web/hostings/redirect-http-to-https-a... for example
tobilg··on Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
If you want to host a static website on AWS with one command, and not clicking around in the Console, have a look at https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites

For fullstack websites, I created https://github.com/tobilg/aws-fullstack-website which will additionally create a API based on API Gateway and its HTTP API feature

tobilg··on Migrating Away from Google Analytics
You can have a look at https://ownstats.cloud if you happen to have a AWS account available
tobilg··on Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
Shameless plug, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats
tobilg··on Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
If you have an AWS account and want a lightweight, cheap and privacy-friendly alternative, you can have a look at https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats as well.
tobilg··on Analytics Without Google
If you run on AWS and want cheap and privacy-focussed website analytics, you might also look at https://ownstats.cloud/
tobilg··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of the architecture of a personal project?
Might be worthwhile to also check out https://plantuml.com/
tobilg··on ESLint 7.0
While this might be correct, in the a lot of cases you'll also use a lot of plugins for both to enable the desired transpilations and checks...

I should have been more precise in my first comment though.

tobilg··on ESLint 7.0
Hopefully it got a little less „dependency-heavy“ than before. Using eslint and babel tends to add 200mb of dev dependencies to a project...
tobilg··on Microsoft is giving parents 12 weeks’ paid parental leave
Germany offers a max of 14 months of „parental allowance“ for new parents. See https://handbookgermany.de/en/live/parental-benefits.html for example
tobilg··on An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
You might have a look at https://ownstats.cloud
tobilg··on An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
If you have access to an AWS account, you can host your own website statistics with very little costs. That’s why I built https://ownstats.cloud/ Would love to get some feedback.
tobilg··on Show HN: Build optimized Python AWS Lambda layers
Thanks, l‘ll have a look. Building binaries should be possible with the used lambci/lambda Docker image afaik.
tobilg··on Show HN: Build optimized Python AWS Lambda layers
Great, looking forward for your feedback. It’s currently just a weekend project, so it might still have some rough edges...
tobilg··on The good parts of AWS: a visual summary
You can have a look at https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites if you want to set this up with one command
tobilg··on Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
I struggled with setting up static website hosting on S3, CloudFront, Route53 and ACM, so I created https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites to automate this via the Serverless framework
tobilg··on Deploying front-end websites to S3 with CloudFront
If you want to do this with one command, check out https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites or, if you want to host an API with Lambda as well, https://github.com/tobilg/aws-fullstack-website
tobilg··on Show HN: Deploy a fullstack website on AWS with one command
Feel free to read the README.md of the repo, in my option it clearly described what gets deployed.

Interesting semantic discussion nevertheless.

tobilg··on Show HN: Deploy a fullstack website on AWS with one command
With „fullstack“ I meant a Frontend together with a Backend... All with one CloudFormation stack :-)
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