Aggregating data for graphs, analysis, portfolios, or even machine learning can be an arduous task and difficult to scale. In this article, I will go over MongoDB’s new(ish) $merge pipeline that I feel resolves a lot of these scaling issues and automates certain design practices that previously took a lot…

Recently I’ve had to redesign an async queuing system. After researching several options, I went with AWS Simple Queue Service(SQS) and Simple Notification Service(SNS). With a combination of these two services, I was able to duplicate and improve the previous (and failing) RabbitMQ set-up. The great thing about the AWS…

A Content Security Policy helps prevent XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks by limiting the way content is served from different sources and from where. In this Article, I will provide a step by step process on how to implement a CSP3 compliant strict-dynamic CSP policy and properly apply it using…

Abstract GraphQL offers a very compelling solution to a common microservice problem. By implementing an API-Gateway using GraphQL, we can significantly improve the transactions between the consumer and API as well as ease the growing pains as the API and consumer requirements evolve over time. However implementing a GraphQL gateway presents…

It seems like such a simple request at first, “I want data to be ordered by rank or priority, and I want users to be able to re-order the data based on which is most important”. This is an extremely common scenario in app development. You will find this problem…

In this blog post I will go over how to interact with S3 objects via the AWS-CLI. In this case I will follow methods I took to move objects into a different organizational structure to support a Cloudfront distribution standard. Check your credentials and policy The first step to dealing with the aws-cli is to…

A redemption piece on Coding Schools I was recently quote mined by a strongly worded opinion piece on Bloomberg. I felt a degree of guilt for being a part of a message that pushed people away from a potentially life changing opportunity. The piece, I won’t link it here but you can easily find it with…

Uploading files and varying types of media can always be a headache. I was recently tasked with building out a media service; a dedicated Go service that would handle uploads to an s3 bucket. The documentation isn’t completely clear and most of the examples and tutorials are outdated, so I…

This is the third and final installment of my blog trilogy on ES6 based on the information presented by Aaron Frost on Pluralsight. If you haven’t seen the talk, check it out! In this episode, we are going to take a glance at promises, generators, and modules! Promises Promises are one…