I have a new three-hour long course on building serverless applications from the perspective of a frontend developer. Some of the things you’ll learn include:

• How to deploy serverless frontends on AWS with SSL, a custom domain, and the CloudFront CDN
• How to spin up your first backend APIs with the Serverless Framework
• How to integrate Auth0 into your frontend
• How to use Auth0 to secure your backend APIs

The best part? It’s 100% free! Feel free to check it out here. Let me know what you think on Twitter!

One of my few possessions is an abundance of poorly-chosen Amazon Route 53 domain names with outdated contact addresses from moving between overpriced apartments - I am what you might call a tech typical millennial.

So I wrote a Python package called awsmailman to help do this for me and now you can use it too.

During AWS re:Invent this year AWS announced a new way to make HTTP APIs with API Gateway v2. It now includes things like native support for JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and a vastly simplified number of AWS resources to get an API up and running. You can read about all the updates here in my post on the Serverless Blog.

Amazon Cognito can be a useful service when you want to add authentication and authorization to an existing application on AWS. But I’ve also noticed a few quirks that I couldn’t find answers to anywhere in the documentation. So here’s my attempt to spare some folks idle hours search for answers.

After an exhausting week and a half traveling to conferences I’m back home in Seattle and have my talk and workshop content from the trip to share with you! If you’re interested in getting started with Serverless on AWS and learning how to add serverless applications to your development portfolio you should take a look!