The middleware framework Middy reached version 1.0, bringing middleware capabilities to AWS Lambda. This allows cleaner handler code by extracting cross-cutting concerns into reusable middleware.

Luciano Mammino reflects on his 2019 tech career achievements including conference talks, career moves, open source contributions, and blog posts. He also sets realistic goals for 2020 like finding a new job, releasing Middy 1.0, and getting an advanced AWS certification.

Learn how to configure NPM packages to publish only the files needed by users, avoiding bloating node_modules folders.

This article shows how to quickly build web app prototypes using Fastify for the backend API and Preact for the frontend UI. It also covers how to dockerize the app for easy sharing. Key points are the plugin architecture of Fastify, the lightweight nature of Preact, and the use of htm for defining ...

This article explores different ways to create iterators and iterable values in Javascript for dynamic sequence generation, specifically using functions, iterators, iterables and generators. It provides code examples for implementing the Fibonacci sequence with each approach.

A personal 2018 year in review including achievements like migrating my blog to a serverless setup, 8 conference talks, career growth at Vectra, open source contributions, and reflections on side projects. Outlines goals for 2019 like writing more, releasing middy 1.0, and getting advanced AWS certi...

Customize your terminal prompt with Bash PS1 variable and RANDOM function to show a random emoji on each command. Learn Bash arrays, escape sequences, and functions. Emojis make your terminal more fun and keep your morale up during debugging.

This article explores how to simulate multiple return values in JavaScript using arrays and objects. It covers use cases like React Hooks and async/await error handling. The pattern enables elegant APIs but has performance implications.

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam covers a wide range of AWS services. This post shares helpful notes and tips for studying key concepts like EC2, S3, VPC, DynamoDB, and more. It provides advice on the exam mindset and lists official and unofficial preparation resources. The notes summarize...

The AWS CLI s3 cp command supports streaming content to and from S3 using stdin/stdout with the - argument. This enables powerful pipelines without intermediary files.

In 2017, Luciano Mammino gave 17 conference talks, contributed to open source projects like Fastify and Middy, and learned new technologies like Terraform and Ansible. He looks forward to presenting more in 2018 and learning technologies like Rust, Elastic Search, and Kubernetes.

This article explores the history of cloud computing from bare metal servers to serverless, explaining key innovations like IaaS, PaaS, containers and FaaS along the way.

This post explains how to use Let's Encrypt and Certbot to automatically generate and renew SSL certificates for OpenVPN. It provides a complete Terraform setup as a practical example.

Luciano Mammino recounts his experience speaking at the Shift conference in Split, Croatia about Serverless architecture and its pros and cons. He provides links to his talk video, slides, and a Twitter moment.

The author gave a talk on building universal JavaScript web apps at Codemotion Rome 2017. He updated his Judo Heroes demo to v2 with React 15.4, React Router 4, Webpack 2, and Express 5. The talk got positive feedback from the audience. Slides and video are linked.

This article explains how short URLs work and provides code examples to expand them in Node.js using request module or tall library. It covers basics of URL redirection, shows how to disable auto-redirect in request module, and introduces tall - a promise-based Node.js library to unshorten URLs.

This post summarizes a talk about building a serverless architecture on AWS Lambda using the Serverless framework. It covers topics like authentication, authorization, testing, CI/CD, and cost monitoring. The presenters share lessons learned from real-world experience building a production serverles...

A personal review of 2016 highlights career growth through a new job, open source contributions, conference talks, and co-authoring a Node.js book. The post also covers learning new technologies like Elixir and AWS, while noting failures like lack of focus on a side project.

This blog post summarizes a talk about building a Universal JavaScript application with React given at Codemotion Milan 2016. It includes commentary for each slide, photos from Twitter, and a video recording. The post explains what Universal JavaScript is, its benefits, challenges, and walks through...

This blog post explains how to build a distributed application using Node.js and ZeroMQ that cracks JWT tokens. It provides a step-by-step guide on implementing the application and links to two in-depth articles on RisingStack that cover the theory and coding details.

Luciano Mammino recently participated in two interviews discussing his work with Node.js and JavaScript as well as his experience as an author writing books about Node.js design patterns.

This article explains how to build a simple Universal JavaScript application using React, React Router and Express. It shows how to implement server side rendering with React and Node.js to create an isomorphic app.

By using a combination of curl, grep, cut, sort, uniq and other common bash utilities it is possible to extract structured data from Wikipedia and compute insights without writing a full program.

The author announces the release of "Node.js design patterns - second edition", a new book covering design patterns for Node.js and JavaScript. It includes updated code for Node v6 and ES2015 across 11 chapters and 100+ examples.

This post shares 6 tips to build fast web applications based on a talk at Php Dublin in March 2016. It includes slides and covers topics like caching, compression, database optimization, and more.

We explore two approaches to support both callbacks and promises in async JavaScript modules: 1) promisify callback functions, 2) make callback optional and return promise. The second allows flexible use of callbacks or promises.

GitKraken is a new cross-platform graphical interface for Git currently in private beta. It has useful features like interactive commit graph visualization, easy branching/stashing, and GitHub integration. The post shares invites to try the private beta version of GitKraken.

Gulp-cozy is an experimental NPM package that allows you to separate Gulp tasks into small modules inside a dedicated folder, making them easier to maintain. It brings Node.js modularity principles into your Gulp workflow.

This tutorial explains how to use Gulp and vinyl-ftp to watch local files for changes and automatically upload updates to a website via FTP. Useful for quickly editing legacy sites only accessible through FTP.

The mongo-uri-builder Node.js package easily generates MongoDB connection strings from configuration objects, supporting features like authentication, replicas, and options. It integrates well with config for managing different environments.