Alex Kates

Alex Kates @thealexkates

About: Senior Software Engineer at https://creditgenie.com. Passionate about full-stack JavaScript, AWS Serverless, and Extreme Programming.

Location:
Philadelphia, PA
Joined:
Dec 11, 2019

Alex Kates
articles - 10 total

How to Trigger an AWS Lambda from Kinesis

In this post we are going to use the AWS CDK to build an AWS Lambda Function that triggers from an...

Learn More 19 2Jul 14 '21

How to Trigger an AWS Lambda from SQS

In this post we are going to use the AWS CDK to build an AWS Lambda Function that triggers from an...

Learn More 47 0Jul 2 '21

How to Trigger an AWS Lambda from SNS

In this post we are going to use the AWS CDK to build an AWS Lambda Function that triggers from an...

Learn More 20 0Jun 25 '21

How to Trigger an AWS Lambda from S3

In this post we are going to use the AWS CDK to build an AWS Lambda Function that triggers from AWS...

Learn More 25 2Jun 16 '21

How We Scaled Our Serverless SaaS Platform in AWS

I was recently interviewed by Elise Greve of AWS about how we scaled Credit Genie from MVP to a...

Learn More 48 7Jun 11 '21

How to Mock Luxon's DateTime.now When Using TDD

When is this relevant? Ok, here's the situation. You are maintaining a NodeJS...

Learn More 12 2Jun 7 '21

How to Animate a Waving Hand Emoji in TailwindCSS

I recently spent time polishing the mobile reponsivness for my personal site, https://alexkates.dev,...

Learn More 20 0Jun 3 '21

On the Topic of Writing

I've consistently been writing for a few weeks now intending to publish a new post every Friday....

Learn More 7 5May 28 '21

5 Essential Extreme Programming (XP) Resources

Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development methodology that promotes communication,...

Learn More 26 0May 22 '21

How to Trigger an AWS Lambda from DynamoDB

In this post we are going to use the AWS CDK to build an AWS Lambda Function that triggers from...

Learn More 27 0May 14 '21