https://youtu.be/XZwJb4VWkuU This video demonstrates how to connect Route53 DNS entries directly to an API Gateway end point. In this scenario, we use the functionality to perform an HTTP redirect.

This video shows you how to use AWS Application Load Balancer rules to route and redirect traffic based on the incoming URL. This functionality can be incredibly powerful for SaaS applications to control distribution and location of different application components. https://youtu.be/iWVZkUb1RWs

In parts 1 and 2, we build the infrastructure for monitoring real-time prices and storing them in the database. In part 3, we will add a Trading Engine that will analyze each datapoint and then decide whether or not to execute a trade. For now, we will just print output…

In this video, I show you how to enable provisioned concurrency for a Lambda function to enable that your functions will run from a warm start. At the end of the video, you will see how I was able to drastically reduce start-up lag and improve response time by 500%…

In this video, I show you how I fixed a query problem in Postgres be examining the a query plan provided by our DataDog monitoring tool. Simply adding a single column index to a table eliminates a sequential scan that iterates over 1.3M rows, increasing overall performance of the query…

https://youtu.be/E1mV5VrSatI In a previous video, we showed you how to route a whole domain to a specific URL using ELB and Lambda. In this video, we show you how to perform a slightly different scenario: redirecting a specific URL on one domain to a specific URL on another domain using…

In Part 1 of this blog we created the core code for retrieving market prices from Coinbase. In Part 2, we are going to add the ability to store the data into RDS MySQL. Setting Up RDS Create an RDS database using MySQL on a micro instance in the same…

https://youtu.be/1ld_zxDbErE With DNS you can only redirect a domain to another domain - not a domain to a specific URL. In this video, you will learn how to connect AWS Lambda to an Elastic Load Balancer and use it to redirect traffic to a specific URL. There are many operations…

Over the past year I have been spending more and more time with AWS Lambda.  The power of the AWS server-less compute platform is tremendous.  As a side project, I recently decided to test my skills, and Lambda, to see if I could build my own automated crypto trading platform.…