Huggies is a side project that I started when working for the NAPI team which pronounced as ['næpɪ], and that is why I named it as Huggies 😉 The team's environments are mostly on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In general, Elastic Beanstalk is a good tool as it abstracts the complexicity of managing Elastic Load Balancer, … Continue reading Huggies – AWS Elastic Beanstalk Automation Tool
Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems? Table of Contents Table of Contents Foreword Preface Part I - Introduction Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The Production Environment at Google, from the Viewpoint of an SRE Part II - Principles Chapter 3 - Embracing Risk Chapter 4 - Service Level Objectives Chapter 5 - Eliminating Toil … Continue reading Site Reliability Engineering
Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management
I was curious about where AWS API Gateway stands in the current API market. To my surprise, it is even not listed in the magic quadrant. A further reading shows that it is excluded because of not meeting this criteria - Generate revenue of at least $10 million (or its equivalent in another currency) per … Continue reading Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management
DNS-over-HTTPS
Just found out Google public DNS supports DNS-over-HTTPS. A single curl command can give you the result in json format. Very nice! Syntax: curl -s https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=xxxx curl -s https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=ap-southeast-2.aws.amazon.com | jq -r . { "Status": 3, "TC": false, "RD": true, "RA": true, "AD": false, "CD": false, "Question": [ { "name": "ap-southeast-2.aws.amazon.com.", "type": 1 } ], "Authority": … Continue reading DNS-over-HTTPS
Use AWS SES to validate ACM certificate request
In case you are not familiar with AWS abbreviation, SES stands for Simple Email Service, ACM is short for AWS Certificate Manager. These two are independent services, each can work without the other. But in some scenarios, you may need to make them work together to solve your problem. For example: The domain does not … Continue reading Use AWS SES to validate ACM certificate request

