1 day of planning and 4 days of coding. Last year, while on the lookout for my next contract opportunity, I realised that I was a little out of practice with AWS. My last couple positions involved mostly web development with an aspect of infrastructure management, but nothing too in…

For the last few years I’ve been a part of several brand new and phase one projects. No matter the size of the team or business this project has begun with, mistakes are going to be made. Here I’m going to outline some of the most impactful decisions and their…

tldr: inside an s3 bucket with site hosting add a redirect.html file, a CloudFront distribution that loads the file and a route53 record set that adds an ‘Alias’ for the CloudFront distribution. Solution and code below. My Journey to this solution Recently I re-launched a new design of my personal site, this also involved moving…

Building an AWS native, Node.js, serverless, event-driven system to back up an IOT device capable of real time messaging and events. — In August last year I had the opportunity to work on a greenfield project within the financial sector. The pitch to me was: An AWS native, Node.js, serverless, event-driven system to back up an IOT device capable of real time messaging and events. I was very intrigued.

www.joshuatoth.com It’s been an interesting couple weeks diving into React-Native. First of all, why did I try React Native? I’ve been toying with an app idea and wanted to give app development another shot. It’s been a few years since I last tried. Initially I built the api with Nodejs and a semi functional frontend with regular React. Looking…

Something that seems to come up a lot when using git on windows is wanting to use an SSH client to manage keys. When you want to use something like PuTTY its a fairly simple, but somewhat hidden process. By default, git will look in your C:\Users\<username>\.ssh for an id_rsa key and load that. To get git to load keys from an SSH client instead, you need to add an environment variable (GIT_SSH) pointing to the directory of the client you are using:

Git extensions has an annoying default setting of showing when a commit was authored, rather than when it was committed to the repository. You can change this by right clicking on a commit, going to the view menu and deselecting ‘Show Author Date’. You can also deselect ‘relative date’ to show an exact date-time for the commit instead of something like: ‘4 Months ago’. Joshua Toth

Joshua Toth Breaking apart a monolith is something that takes a while… a long while. There are a few things that while not reducing code, can have a pretty large impact on the overall agility of your product development. Separating out your Front-end code from your monolith’s repository/project/deployment life-cycle is…

Joshua Toth For the last few years I’ve been on a journey of breaking down a monolith application. Quite often monolithic and legacy applications are subject to a painfully slow release cycle. …