Warren Parad articles - 64 total
AWS Auth Caching Strategies
Caching is difficult to get right and often means you need to pull in additional frameworks into your...
API Gateway Authorizers: Vulnerable By Design (be careful!)
I had the benefit of joining the AWS Community Day in Zürich this week, most went as expected but,...
The Blog Post Release Automation
The Blog Post Release Automation I made this mistake this week of believing I wanted to...
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The Risks of User Impersonation
What is user impersonation? User impersonation is anything that allows your systems to...
Migrating CloudFormation to TF
One day you might find yourself in the unfortunate position of wanting to migrate away from...
Are millions of accounts vulnerable due to Google's OAuth Flaw?
This article is a rebuttal to Truffle Security's post on Millions of Accounts Vulnerable due to...
AWS Advanced: The Quota Monitor Review
$78,641.25 Per Month. That's the predicted amount of running the official quota monitor...
Idempotency in DynamoDB
It shouldn't be any surprise that we rely on DynamoDB over at Authress for a variety of things. For...
AWS Advanced: Getting SES Production Access
Authors: Warren Parad, Eduardo Santana We made this decision because we believe that your use case...
Securing your secrets in AWS
Secrets and credentials are everywhere, we use them to access third party systems. At Authress we...
How does machine to machine authentication work?
Machine to machine auth is how you ensure secure communication between individual services, and each...
AWS Advanced: Serverless Prometheus in Action
(Note, this article continues from Part 1: AWS Metrics: Advanced) We can't use...
AWS Metrics: Advanced
Normally I'm the last proponent of collecting metrics. The reason is: metrics don't tell you...
AWS VPC: Private Subnets Increase Risk
Should I put my service in the private subnet or the public one? This age old question has...
Marketing your Product effectively
Often I've come across what can only be describe as a Beg-Ad. That's: I built something, please,...
The Devastating Failure of Technical Leadership
I'm going to tell you a story, one that may even have happened to you. The sad truth is this a very...
Denylists and Invaliding user access
This article is part of the Authress Academy and discusses the different ways to invalidate a user's...
Myths about API HTTP clients
Having built many Product APIs in my experience for multiple companies, there are a number of Myths...
You are probably testing wrong
How to think about testing, which tests you need, and when to write the right test.
Breaking up the monolith: Breaking changes
Before we get into how to handle a breaking change, we should first identify what is even a breaking...
Measuring team success
It should be a inevitable conclusion that you to need to measure the success of your teams. After...
The Required team meetings
The required team meetings There is no shortage of advice out there on knowing when to...
AWS CloudWatch: How to scale your logging infrastructure
An obvious story you might decide to tell yourself is Logging is easy. And writing to the console or...
Step-up authorization
Step up authorization is the process of converting a user’s auth from a base level to an elevated or...
Breaking up the monolith: Zero downtime migrations
It’s pretty common in monolith architectures to have to handle migrations. But this isn’t the only...
Adding Custom Domains to your SaaS
You're building out a SaaS solution and realize for one reason or another supporting custom domains...
AWS Cognito: Don’t go to production
AWS Cognito is AWS auth solution, it’s much better than Azure’s and many others that think Auth is...
My DNS doesn't work
Making changes to your DNS and it still doesn't work, here's a troubleshooting guide
AWS Step Functions: Advanced
The optimized step function This is the advanced guide to using AWS Step Functions. Step functions...