How to set up AWS S3 static website hosting with CloudFront and Route53. Handle SEO, HTTPS, logging, and more. — This guide is all about setting up and using an S3 bucket for static website hosting on AWS. I want this guide to be a complete source of knowledge on the topic (aside from the Amazon docs, I suppose). …

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is key to making websites work the way we want them to. How does it protect us from cyber-attacks? — The short answer is IT doesn’t. Have you ever seen this error?

Deep dive into a question from the AWS Solutions Architecture Professional Exam about cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) and static web hosting. — This post details one exam question you may encounter on the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam (SAP-C01). When preparing for an AWS exam, I find it really useful to do a deep dive into several questions to understand the related services and concepts. Studying to a deeper level beyond just…

Debounce user input and props with useCallback, useEffect, & useState. Also, learn how to create your own useDebounce custom React hook. — If you are reading this post, you probably know what it means to debounce user input and want to see how to use it in your React app. Just in case you read the title of this post and said, “Debounce — that sounds cool. What is that?” I’ll go…

Using styled-components and Redux — In this tutorial, we will learn how to build a React app with fully customizable themes using styled-components and Redux. I sometimes get pretty far into a web project and wish I had supported theming (or just done better CSS management in general) from the beginning. There are many component…

How to right-size your AWS deployment. — If you Google how to run WordPress on AWS, you might come across a white paper from Amazon that shows the following:

AWS Solutions Architect Series — Exam Prep — Amazon recently posted a new set of AWS exam questions for the Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01) exam, and I am excited to dig into them. As I have prepared this and other AWS exams, I found dissecting exam questions helpful to grow my AWS knowledge. …

AWS Solutions Architect Series — Exam Prep — As I have prepared for AWS exams, I found dissecting exam questions helpful to grow my AWS knowledge. This post is a bite-sized study guide that will hopefully expand your knowledge of AWS and help you on your journey to becoming a Solutions Architect as well. For each post in…

IPv4 has completely run out of IP addresses. All 4.3 billion addresses used. What now? — In November of last year, RIPE NCC made the final IPv4 address allocation and has officially run out of addresses. The other four regional internet registries ran out years ago. Registries give address blocks to Internet service providers (ISPs). ISPs have pools of addresses that they, in turn, assign to…