DevOps - Victor Smirnov

DevOps

Tools and techniques to make your code a VIP citizen of the AWS public cloud are discussed here. Namely, infrastructure as a code concept and its practical application, AWS CDK framework and CloudFormation. What we do here we do with pride and CloudFormation. And what does not exist in CloudFormation or any automatic tooling does not exist at all!

Line folding in HTTP headers results in Nginx 502 Bad Gateway error

RFC7230 in section 3.2.4 deprecates line folding in HTTP header fields (except for one particular case). So, in a nutshell, the safest solution would be to avoid line breaks in HTTP headers.

Environment variables to configure TypeScript application

Pragmatic approach to handle runtime settings for TypeScript NodeJS applications using environment variables.

Should we test AWS CDK code?

Should we test our AWS CDK code? Of course, we should, we are the programmers, and we test all the code we write. But maybe we should take another thought on this.