Foreward Since 2012, I have wanted to write a novel. I had envisioned the opening scene many times. I wanted a hacker targeting his prey at a coffee shop. This victim regularly used the coffee shop’s free WiFi. …

A Step-by-step Guide to Building a Serverless App in the Cloud — Foreward I started developing serverless applications on Amazon Web Services in 2018. The team used the Serverless Framework heavily. The framework made it simple to begin developing serverless applications on AWS. Over the years, I wanted greater control of provisioning and updating cloud resources. In 2020, my team and I experimented…

The ts-node package needed the speed boost — The Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit is an infrastructure-as-code solution. CDK allows us to write code (in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, for example) to programmatically deploy resources in our AWS account. CDK is written in TypeScript and uses the ts-node package to deploy. When we run the cdk command in…

Everyone should pay their fair share — I mean everyone. — The United States Government has $33 T in debt, according to the US Treasury. How is the USG going to pay that back? One way is to lower spending, and another is to collect more taxes. The government can reduce spending enough to reduce the debt. That would result in…

Including cyber requirements in your dev cycle can pay dividends over the long term. — You can save your organization up to 1000 times in cyber security costs by simply defining cyber security requirements before you start building your next product. …

Mike walked into the conference room only to find it empty. He scratched his head in confusion. He walked to one of the chairs and put his palm on the bottom of the seat. “The seat is still warm. …

It’s important to have the right tools. It saves a lot of time and makes us more effective. I learned how to pick a lock at the LayerOne Conference earlier this year. Someone lost the keys to a basic lock. I offered to pick the lock and started using two…

Have a consistent development environment for your team on any OS — In early 2022, I was starting a new project on AWS. I was using AWS CDK for about one year at this time. In a previous project, the team members used a mix of macOS and Linux computers. It was only a matter of time before a Windows user joined…

We would like to welcome Junita Gordon, who recently joined our publication. Junita has contributed her “Mindtwister: Is it a date?” book. We now have two fiction books in our collection. Miguel A. Calles also posted the next chapter of “The Short Sale” book.