2021-04-28

The Data Standards Authority are holding an open challenge to discover and set a new data standard for vulnerable people services.

2021-04-20

In part 5, we amended our Lambda to write to an S3 bucket; and in this part, we’ll explore triggers to run it regularly.

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 3: APIs and secrets
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 2: Build, deploy and invoke
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 1: AWS

2021-04-19

In previous parts, we’ve built a Lambda that can query the OpenWeather API, using a secret key; and in this part we’ll extend it to write that data to S3.

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 3: APIs and secrets
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 2: Build, deploy and invoke
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 1: AWS

2021-04-18

In part 3, we extended our Lambda to communicate with an API, using a secret key; and in this part, we’ll explore the logs created when the Lambda runs.

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 3: APIs and secrets
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 2: Build, deploy and invoke
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 1: AWS

2021-04-17

In part 2, we build a Lambda function, deployed and invoked it; and in this part, we’ll extend it to communicate with an API using a secret key.

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 2: Build, deploy and invoke
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 1: AWS

2021-04-16

In part 1, we set up the basic infrastructure to support a new Lambda function on AWS; and n this part, we’ll build a Lambda function, deploy it to AWS, and invoke it with some input.

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 3: APIs and secrets
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 1: AWS

2021-04-15

At first glance, Amazon Web Services (AWS) can seem impenetrably complex, but it’s not so bad once you’ve found your way around it…

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 3: APIs and secrets
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 2: Build, deploy and invoke

2021-01-04

There are a many ways to peek inside a data file and reason about its contents. This post is about a triplet of simple, easily available tools that I’ve found handy for searching and querying common data file formats. You might too…

2021-01-03

Anyone can code.

This is a short exploration of the choices for coding beginners out there.

2021-01-02

My Mac likes to go to sleep to save power, and that means any long-running processes I have underway will be suspended when it does.