GoLang vanity urls on AWS Lambda

 March 21, 2019

After the article on the reasons to use vanity URLs in Go and the one about how to implement a lightweight vanity URLs provider, I’d like to share with you how you can leverage AWS Lambda to implement a vanity URLs provider.

The first thing we will need is to import the github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go package. This package will provide us with the needed functions to easily integrate our Go code with AWS Lambda. In our main we will just need to start the Lambda with a handler like this:

An HTTP server to serve GCS files

 April 12, 2018

As many other clouds, Google Cloud Platform provides an Object Storage service, Google Cloud Storage. As many other Object Storage service, Google Cloud Storage provides an HTTP server to deliver your files quickly. When I started to use Google Cloud Storage and its HTTP server I have not been entirely pleased by how it works and therefore I wanted to re-implement the HTTP server so that I can manage it completely.

AWS at the command line

 February 29, 2016

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest public cloud provider and has released a set of tools to help out sysadmins and developers for integrating with their infrastructure.

The three tools we are going to discuss in this article are three of AWS’s most-used and well-known tools:

• botocore: Low-level Python library
• boto3: High level Python library
• awscli: Command-line interface written in Python

All those tools are currently available in Fedora (22+) and EPEL (7).

Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS by Marcus Young (Packt Publishing)

 July 19, 2015

Today the IT world is moving very quickly from the classic infrastructure with servers, switches, hard disks and so on to virtual infrastructures, where all those things are simple pieces of software faking to be real objects. This has huge benefits, and this is why so many companies are doing this. Along with the advantages, this new way of doing IT has it’s criticality that the administrators have to know to prevent possible problems to happen. A lot of books that speaks about cloud technology forget to start from the basics of cloud and very often skip these concepts. This book does not, and I greatly appreciated it.