Raphael Jambalos articles - 48 total
AWS Network Challenge 2: Deploy File Upload App on EC2, RDS, DocumentDB
This talk will be/was presented at the AWS Community Day 2024 - Bacolod on November 16, 2024 ...
Full Stack Serverless Challenge #1: AWS Amplify Gen 2
In this challenge, we'll be learning more about Amplify Gen 2. It is an AWS service that allows...
AWS Network Challenge 1: Deploy Web App to EC2 / Two-Tier VPC Architecture
About the Challenge I manage the Service Delivery Team at eCloudValley Philippines, and...
How to Hack (and secure) Serverless Applications
At eCloudValley Philippines, we prefer developing web backends as serverless applications. We just...
Trigger AWS Lambda with TCP Traffic + Static IP Address
In this post, I will walk you through how to trigger AWS Lambda with TCP traffic. By the end of the...
Top 10 Security Best Practices we learned the hard way
Our users entrusted us with their data and it's our duty to keep this data secure as they use our...
Amazon Cognito: The Ugly Parts (and our workarounds)
Don't get us wrong. Amazon Cognito is sufficient as an authentication service. We've been using it...
Challenge #4: Create CI/CD for Serverless Apps
This was presented as a lightning talk last Nov 17, 2022 in the 4th AWSUG F2F Meetup at the GCash...
Field Guide to Surviving DDoS Attacks in your application
One of our customer-facing websites got attacked with a huge DDoS attack recently, to the magnitude...
Use EventBridge for your event-driven architecture in 8 steps
This article was also presented as a talk at the recently concluded APAC Community Summit 2022 in...
How we embraced Amazon EventBridge for our event-driven architecture
This article was also presented as a talk at the recently concluded APAC Community Summit 2022 in...
ElasticSearch: Zero to Hero in 12 Commands
It's relatively easy to get started with ElasticSearch. But as our use cases get more specific, we...
Why we need an MVC-like web framework on top of Serverless Framework
Our team has been working with serverless applications for two years. It changed the way our team...
Optimize your Application's performance with Amazon X-Ray
Fifteen years ago, when we send a request to a website, it is most likely served by a single server....
Black Belt Techniques in Serverless Framework App Deployments
We've been writing Python applications using Serverless Framework for the past 18 months. Throughout...
AWS Community ASEAN - Quarterly Awards for Contributors in 2022
Happy New Year, everyone! To celebrate the new year, our editorial team has worked with...
6 Books from Silicon Valley Authors to help you become a better Tech Manager
In 2021, I started my new role as the Team Lead for Cloud-Native Development. I have been developing...
Lessons I wish I knew when I started dealing with clients as a Dev Solutions Architect
Back in 2019, I was employed as an Infrastructure Engineer in an e-commerce company. Our work was...
Challenge #3: Using Offline Tools to speed up dev in Serverless
Quick Recap In the first two challenges, we created a basic API-based loyalty application...
VueJS Challenge #1: Create a 3-page app to create/display loyalty cards
About the challenge A few months back, some of my friends asked me to teach them about...
Why you should volunteer for a tech user group
1 | You get to inspire others At the core of every user group is a desire to help others....
Challenge 2: Add SQS + S3 Event Triggers for Lambda Apps
Quick Recap In the previous post, we have created a simple loyalty application. It can cre...
Welcome to DEV, AWS Community ASEAN!
Welcome to our Dev.to blog! We have decided to start this blog to help members have more c...
Challenge 1: Create a simple app in Lambda + DynamoDB + Serverless Framework
This article was also presented as a talk last July 17, 2021 for ULAP.org About the...
Simulate Real-World User Behavior in Apache JMeter Load Tests
A realistic load test helps you prepare your application and infrastructure adequately for the surge...
When was the last time you let yourself be a beginner?
As a developer, we all start from somewhere. And when we started, we really sucked. But since we didn...
Quick and Visual Guide to API Performance Testing with Apache JMeter
In this post, we will get our hands dirty with Apache JMeter. If you aren't familiar with load testin...
Develop Frontend Apps Faster with OpenAPI 3.0 and Prism Mock Server
One aspect of dev work that usually has friction is between API engineers and frontend developers. Th...
Create Reliable & Easy-to-use APIs with API First Design
Recently, I had to create an API Gateway for a customer. Coming from a developer background, API desi...
Basics of Load Testing
This is the first post of the Create Realistic Load Tests with JMeter series. This series will help y...