Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 26

3rd July 2022

Hello friends. Another week passed by! My highlights of the week were the German CDK Happy Hour Meetup on Wednesday where an AWS CDK project was presented which leverages AWS ECS with Blue/Green deployments. That is super exciting as that is not…

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 25

26th June 2022

Hi folks. What a week. Close by the Azure Meetup started happening again after like 2 years. Was great to see my old Meetup friends again. You might think wait what why Azure you are an AWS guy? Yes, true but learning more about the other cloud…

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 24

19th June 2022

In this weekly newsletter, I write a summary of posts that got my attention during the week. I center around topics AWS, DevOps, Architecture, AWS CDK, Data Engineering, Data Analytics and much more. If you like my content follow me on my usual spots…

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 23

12th June 2022

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 21

29th May 2022

What is Serverless?

24th May 2022

To clear up a possible misunderstanding right away! Serverless does not mean that there are no more servers! On the contrary! Cloud providers such as AWS, which offer serverless, have many servers worldwide. In the image below you can see the…

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 20

22nd May 2022

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 19

15th May 2022

Create and delete AWS Accounts programmatically

11th May 2022

Hi. In AWS, it is best practice to create new accounts if, for example, you want to deploy different stages such as dev, qa and prod for your solution. It is also common to create so-called sandbox AWS accounts to provide these new employees for…

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 18

8th May 2022

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 17

1st May 2022

AWS Builder experience so far

29th April 2022

Hi. As of March 2022, I am an AWS Community Builder. In this post, I will explain to you what an AWS Community Builder is and how you can become one. In addition, I will reveal my motivation for why I wanted to become an AWS Builder in the first…

Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 16

25th April 2022

Export DynamoDB Items to S3

3rd April 2022

Hi Storing data like JSON logs in DynamoDB is a great idea as DynamoDB is very scalable. In addition, it is easier to transfer data into a DynamoDB table using for example Lambda and AWS SDK. Also, it makes analyzing the logs easier for example the…

AWS CDK diagrams with cdk-dia <3

24th March 2022

Hi. AWS component diagrams are a great way to visualize complex AWS architectures. For many, they are much more intuitive than, for example, CDK code. I myself work a lot with AWS component diagrams when I develop new AWS systems. What has always…

Private S3 Assets with Cloudfront, Lambda@Edge and AWS CDK

13th February 2022

Hi, Private S3 assets like images or videos are a frequently needed feature for apps. After the user has logged in, those private assets are shown to him. These are typically stored in an S3 bucket. This S3 bucket must not be publicly available. The…

Deploy Lambda@Edge with AWS CDK and TypeScript

6th February 2022

Hi, Lambda@Edge are Lambdas that are executed in the AWS Cloudfront Locations. That can increase performance and reduce latency compared to normal Lambda. Cloudfront together with Lambda@Edge can also being used as a proxy for a private S3 asset…

My first days at kreuzwerker

21st January 2022

Hi, I have decided to go back to working with AWS full time. Even though I had a lot of fun diving into the world of Blazer and Dotnet, I just missed working with AWS too much. So I asked around in the German AWS community if anyone else is looking…

CDK BitBucket Staging Pipeline Learnings (Part 2)

7th January 2022

Hi CDK folks. A few months ago I told you about my exciting project to build a CDK BitBucket Staging Pipeline. Since then, a lot has happened and we have continued to develop the pipeline. Problems with CDK cross-stack references CDK cross-stack…

Thankfulness 2021

30th December 2021

A warm hello, Once again this year I would like to say thank you. The center of 2021 of course was my family. Still my thanks from 2021 are still valid! In this post I would like to say thanks specifically for 2021 and its events. God This year, too…

Asynchronous communication with AWS CDK EventBridge

14th November 2021

Hi CDK folks For a startup I am building a security platform. The rough process for using the platform is something like this. The customer answers a few questions and then gets a security evaluation. For the prototype I decided to use AWS…

A CDK BitBucket Staging Pipeline

31st October 2021

I have been working for a client with very exciting AWS CDK tasks. The customer is heavily into the Atlassian ecosystem. BitBucket is used to host the code. Now the customer wants to move more into the DevOps space and manage their AWS deployments…

Security, Best Practice and Hardening Checks with the Prowler AMI

27th August 2021

Prowler Video (Click me :D) Hi Folks! Developing in AWS is fun and the possibilities to build cool stuff seem endless. But are these cool things secure and do they follow AWS's best practices? With Prowler AMI you can check just that with far over…

Automated AWS Security Feedback with Prowler and AWS CDK

17th August 2021

Hi Folks! Toni De La Fluente has developed the super cool AWS Security Tool Prowler. Prowler is a cli tool for performing and consulting AWS Security Assessment, Auditing, Hardening and Incident Response. With more than 180 checks, Prowler provides…

Wordpress Posts automated with AWS CDK

8th August 2021

Hi Folks! My last post was about how to make a wordpress deployment more DevOps friendly using Docker and some cool scripts. Today I want to talk about another exciting task. The customer wants new wordpress posts to be created automatically using…

Wordpress with Docker

3rd July 2021

Hi guys! For my newest customer I built a great AWS backend with AWS AppSync and many other great AWS services. But now I'm faced with the exciting task of making the AppSync or GraphQL API callable in a Wordpress frontend. I have heard a lot about…

AWS Cloudformation deploying with Lambda

7th June 2021

Hi Folks! I am currently working on an exciting project where it should be possible to create Ec2 instances flexibly via an API. These instances should then be made available to the customer for training purposes. The instances should be customized…

AWS CDK Custom Construct Versions Checker

18th May 2021

Hi CDK Fans! With Custom Constructs it is possible to implement certain features as Level 2 AWS CDK Constructs. In fact, many of the AWS CDK Constructs already in use are already Level 2 Constructs. I have already built some custom constructs. There…

AWS QuickSight DataSet and DataSource CDK Custom Constructs

6th May 2021

Hi. In my previous blog posts I showed how to generate analytics from DynamoDB table using AWS QuickSight. Unfortunately, QuickSight is only minimally supported by Cloudformation and QuickSight's DataSource and DataSet are only on the roadmap so far…

AWS DynamoDB Analysis with QuickSight and AWS CDK - Quite big Tables

21st April 2021

Hi. In my last blogpost, I covered exciting work with AWS Athena and AWS QuickSight. If you want to do analytics from small AWS DynamoDB tables, everything should work smoothly. By small I mean a relatively small number of columns in the table. It…

AWS DynamoDB Analysis with QuickSight and AWS CDK

8th April 2021

Hi. AWS DynamoDB is an extremely performant and scalable NoSQL database. Due to the lack of a schema, data, called items in DynamoDb, can be extremely flexible. This also allows a kind of evolutionary development of the items by simply creating new…

A very cool DevOps AWS CDK Todolist

23rd February 2021

Hi. For a long time I've been dreaming of building a platform with a great DevOps experience. I want to have cool stuff in it like: Infrastructure as Code (IAC) CI / CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) A staging e.g. dev, qa, prod…

Scrum and GitHub

11th February 2021

Hi. Our development team does an exciting experiment. We work in Scrum and organize ourselves mainly with GitHub. That works really great1. In this article I describe how we use GitHub for that. Even though I have experience with Scrum for about…

Docker Hub release with Projen

1st February 2021

Hi Projen folks. Projen is becoming popular. I've been using it myself for about half a year now and I'm still totally hooked. Recently I even managed to build a Docker Image Release Cycle to Docker Hub with it. My Docker InfluxDB Repo now…

IOT - Gasmeter goes digital

25th January 2021

Before it begins. Affiliates regarding the IOT devices are in the post Hi. A few weeks ago I presented my new IOT deployment here. It consists of a Raspberry 4 DE US UK, Zigbee Türsensor DE UK and the Zigbee Empfäger DE UK. The software that runs on…

Long term investing with Trading212

17th January 2021

Before it starts! The Trading212 link is an affiliate where you and I get each a share for free. Hi, I started with stocks in November 2020 and since them I am an active user of the trading app Trading212. The main reason is that I do not see a bank…

RC3 Summary

5th January 2021

Hi friends of the chaos, The 37th Congress has taken place from 27 - 30 December 2020 and due to the pandemic everything was remote. So the Chaos Congress got the name RC3. This was my very first Chaos Computer Club event that I attended. How great…

Raspberry 4 IOT with AWS CDK Pipeline automated Deployment

2nd January 2021

Hi Raspberry Friends. Note: I have used commission links in this article and marked them with "*". Since recently I can call myself owner of a Raspberry. On Cyber Monday I bought a *Raspberry 4 with 4 GB. I have had previous experiences with Home IOT…

ALPS Helper Library

19th December 2020

Hi :). The new ALPS Converter I developed makes it possible to convert an ALPS specification (spec short) to OpenApi, GraphQL or other APIs. Other great features of my ALPS unified library are: automatic versioned releasing to NPM, PyPi, Maven and…

ALPS API combined with AWS CDK

14th December 2020

Hi :). AWS offers many exciting Api technologies. Those include the AWS Api Gateway which is an implementation of a REST Api or AWS Appsync which implements a GRAPH QL Api. Each of these AWS Api implementations has its advantages and disadvantages…

Thankfulness

8th December 2020

A warm welcome, As we are now approaching the end of 2020, I would like to take this opportunity to show my gratitude. For this I would like to dedicate a whole blog post :). Even if it was different for many, for us 2020 was the best year as a…

Optimised Fasting

28th November 2020

Hi Low Carber :) In the last few months I have successfully lost a lot of weight with Optimised Fasting. Per week I have lost about 500 grams, that is half a kilo. I have already gained a lot of experience with fasting like water fasting. Optimised…

Alfresco 6.2 with OCR

24th November 2020

Hi Alfrescans. Object Character Recognition (short OCR) is a cool tool as it allows you to make your scanned documents incredible useful as it recognizes characters and words and makes those accessible in your document like through a PDF sandwich. A…

AWS Cognito Auth Mock

16th November 2020

Ahoi AWS'ler In my AWS project, where I can start, stop and schedule instances of Alfresco via REST API, I use AWS Cognito as identity provider for user management. Cognito makes it easy for me to create new users and give them the rights to access…

AWS CDK - PipelineApp Library - Automated Testing

9th November 2020

Hi CDK Fans, Recently I published a blog post about the AWS CDK PipelineApp Library I'm working on. If you are interested in the AWS CDK Pipeline you should read that one! Meanwhile I have used the library dozens of times in my projects and have…

AWS CDK - PipelineApp - A Library for Staging Pipelines

24th October 2020

Hi CDK Fans, Building AWS CDK pipelines is fun. Since the middle of this year (2020) there is even a high level CDK pipeline which brings many advantages like self-mutate, a simplified cross-account deployment and a better abstraction from the…

AWS CDK Let's build a Platform - Api Gateway

13th September 2020

Hi CDK Fans, Welcome back to my little series "AWS CDK Let's build a platform". In the previous episode AWS CDK Let's build a Platform - Frontend I explained how we build a cool static React Web App with AWS CDK for my company unimed.de. AWS CDK is a…

AWS CDK Let's build a Platform - Frontend

6th September 2020

Hi CDK fans, Since I have the great opportunity to help building a platform for my company unimed.de, I want to explain how it looks like. At the moment we are working on an exciting platform for efficient storage and retrieval of internal data. My…

Alfresco Signatures with Sinadura

14th August 2020

Sponsored by PMGA Tech Hi Alfrescans. Digital signatures are one of the most used forms of integrity checks on the Internet. Integrity check here means whether the document in question is the original and therefore not a fake or a modified version…

Create ACS Infrastructure easy with AWS CDK

26th July 2020

Hi Alfrescans. Infrastructure as code has been popular in DevOps for quite some time. One of the first pioneers of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is AWS with Cloudformation. For this, cloudformation templates must be written in JSON or YAML. This works…

AWS CDK Apps deployed with Lambda

11th July 2020

Ahoy AWS CDK Fans Creating any number of Ec2 instances with a Lambda is no problem. But if you want to create more complex deployments such as LoadBalancer, Securitygroups, Scalingroups, etc. with a Lambda that is tricky! CDK Apps are a good choice…

Optimise Infrastructure with CDK Solutions Constructs Part II.

4th July 2020

Hi CDK Fans In the previous Part I I have built the DynamoDB Stream to Lambda Solution Construct into my Alfresco Provisioner CDK Deployment and discussed the benefits of doing so. This week I integrated more CDK Solutions Constructs. CDK Solutions…

Optimize Infrastructure with CDK Solutions Constructs Part I.

28th June 2020

Ahoy AWS'ler Recently the first CDK Solution Constructs were released. It promise a new level of abstraction for CDK Constructs by combining often used Cloudformation patterns into their own CDK Constructs. For example, if you want to use an API…

ACS and APS Integration

14th June 2020

Hi Alfrescans. Some months ago I reported about an exciting project with the customer where we used the latest ACS and APS version. So far everything has been running smoothly. But now we were facing an exciting challenge. We wanted to start…

OpenApi generated Restic REST Server

6th June 2020

Hello folks :). In this article I want to tell you how easy it can be to create a backend REST server using OpenApi specifications. My ultimate goal is to make backups and the restore process of Alfresco data as easy as possible. After much research…

Alfresco meets Let's Encrypt

30th May 2020

Hi Alfrescans. During the Alfresco Hackathon in May 2020 I implemented a Docker Companion extension for the Docker Alfresco Installer to manage SSL certificates. These certificates can be used for HTTPS connections. The SSL certificates are issued…

The Alfresco Provisioner

19th May 2020

Hi Alfrescans. Have you ever installed Alfresco on an AWS Ec2 instance? Maybe even with Docker Compose? Even though Docker has made installing Alfresco easier, it is still a lot of work! First af all you have to create an Ec2 instance. To do this…

Alfresco Virtual Hack-a-thon May 2020 Summary

15th May 2020

Hi Alfhackas. The Alfresco hack-a-thon was great. What I liked most were the personal conversations with many great ex-colleagues and other Alfresco folks. In addition, I was able to learn valuable information about planned projects within Alfresco…

Alfresco Virtual Hack-a-thon May 2020

8th May 2020

Hi Alfrescans. On May 11, 2020, Alfresco will host a virtual hackathon. You can find the current project ideas here at hub.alfresco.com. With this post I want to invite you to participate. Why Participate? There can be several reasons why you should…

AWS CDK Multistacks for Test and Produktion

19th April 2020

Hi AWS Fans, Last time I described how well AWS CDK is suited for describing infrastructure as code. This article is about how CDK could look in a test and production environment. In my private project I have already implemented something like a…

ACS and APS Deployment with Docker Compose

12th April 2020

Hi Alfrescans. It is time again to report about an exciting Alfresco partner project from me. For a customer here in Germany I am developing a POC which should use ACS 6.2 and APS 1.10. After a bit of persuasion, I was able to convince those involved…

AWS CDK Api Gateway with Swagger

5th April 2020

Ahoi AWS'ler and Swagger fans In the last post I showed how AWS CDK can be used as a welcome alternative to YAML for describing your cloud infrastructure. Working on my CDK project from I encountered a problem handling Swagger files. But first I want…

AWS CDK Tutorial with Travis Deployment

29th March 2020

Ahoy AWS folks For a private project I have been working on an AWS CDK example in the past few days. AWS offers a range of great AWS CDK examples. The experience I had was so good that I decided to write a blog post about it. I was fortunate to work…

Bash Script Contribution for the Alfresco Docker Installer

22nd March 2020

Hi Alfrescans, I made great experiences in my last project with the Alfresco Docker Installer. You can read more about it in my previous blog post. Now I am of course excited to add valuable new features to it. One of them is the Start Script which…

Alfresco's Amps and Jars Testing with Docker

17th March 2020

Hi Alfrescans, In this article I will describe how to use Docker to test Amps and Jars extensions for ACS. Share Customizations and Custom Content Models were developed for a customer of OBJECT, which I wanted further develop and test quickly and…

My Smart Home Experience

6th March 2020

Hi folks. As in October 2019 I had the amazing opportunity to buy a house in the beautiful town called Ludwigslust in Germany. It is an old but recently renovated lovely house. As I'm much interested in tech I couldn't wait to try some cool Smart…

ADF App Bauen vom Scratch

29th February 2020

Good day Wie im vorangegangen Blog Post erwähnt, arbeite ich an einem spannenenden AI Prototyp welcher ACS Community als Content Managment System verwendet. Darüber hinaus laufen noch gewisse AI Services welche über die ACS Schnittstelle wie CMIS und…

My First Exciting Week at OBJECT

20th February 2020

Hello. In this article I briefly summarize the first week at OBJECT. For myself that has a couple of advantages. On one hand I practice writing articles and on the other hand it serves as a reflection on the previous days. As well for some of my…

From Alfresco to OBJECT

9th February 2020

Dear reader. I am happy to announce that I will switch to OBJECT on February 14th. This is a partner company of my current company Alfresco. OBJECT mainly operates in the German and Swiss ECM (Enterprise Content Management) market. Below I list my…

Alfresco's Kubernetes DBP with AWS EKS and Fargate for managing Pods

22nd January 2020

Hi AWS Fans. On 3rd December 2019 AWS announced the general availability of Fargate for EKS (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/). That unburdens the need of managing the infrastructure for the pods. In…

AWS Solution Architect Professional Exam Preparation 2019 (SAP-C01)

27th July 2019

AWS, endlessly services, we are writing the year 2019 the 9th July at 1 pm. I finally smashed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam. After two failed attempts the last screen on the third attempt contained the lovely words…

Water Fasting Experience

12th June 2019

Water Fasting what is that? As the name describes, you are only allowed to drink water for the time of the fasting. No teas, coffee, sugar-less or sugar-free drinks except, of course water. As from personal experience it is much easier than juice…