Stephen Gream's Blog

How to use IAM to connect clients to RDS

A Cloudformation template to spin up an API gateway application authenticated by a Cognito user pool

Been a bit slack on updating this blog, so to make up for it I slapped together a quick and dirty application to tunnel through EC…

I just spent a good month wrangling ECS Fargate deployments with a ton of cloudformation to boot. I’m going to outline the stupid things I…

Forgive the rambly nature of this blog entry, just trying to set my own thoughts straight a little bit. This isn’t intended for anyone else…

UPDATE Feb 20, 2021 I checked my Google search console and realised that most of my traffic comes in through here. Here’s the summary for…

I’ve long been in favour of flexible work policies that allow remote work where possible. While there are many benefits in face to face…

Ever wanted to know how you should get your tooling set up to make testing easier? Start here

First look at Black Hat Go by Tom Steele, Chris Patten and Dan Kottman

How to use and synchronise go routines

I currently work for a company that deals in call centre software, and until this point I hadn’t really started looking into the VOIP side…

Make your Cloudformation scripts better with parameters and mappings

Recently, it’s become apparent at work that we should probably have skeletons in place to make it easier to get a new AWS service up and…

How to assume roles using the AWS SDK

In this blog entry, I'll show you how to set up your first Cloudformation stack