Xero migrating to OAuth 2.0 from OAuth 1.0

"OAuth 2.0 is a protocol that lets your app access a user’s account without accessing their password. Your app requests specific permission scopes and is granted an access token upon a user’s approval."
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Vercel Serverless Functions vs Cloudflare Workers · Moiva.io Blog

"Vercel provides a good solid solution for Serverless Functions and makes the process of their creation seamless and hassle-free. Cloudflare Workers offer more functionality out-of-the-box (e.g. key-value data store, CRON) and look more mature and sophisticated."

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Operating Lambda: Building a solid security foundation – Part 1

"In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This two-part series discusses core security concepts for Lambda-based applications."

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Building a serverless multi-player game that scales

"This post is written by Tim Bruce, Sr. Solutions Architect, Developer Acceleration. Game development is a highly iterative process with rapidly changing requirements."

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What is SvelteKit?

"SvelteKit is an upcoming app framework built around Svelte. As the next evolution to Sapper, it inherits much of its functionality such as file-based routing, Server Side Rendering, and TypeScript support."

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How can I get query strings in my Amazon S3 static website?

"I am hosting a static website on Amazon S3. Some of my client-side javascript parses the query strings to control the HTML. This works fine locally, but on the S3-hosted version, the query strings seem to get dropped from the request."

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Using your own domain with AWS S3 and Cloudflare

"If you’re using a CNAME on your root domain, you’re gonna have problems. That’s just a DNS thing – and if you want to host a root domain on S3, you won’t be provided with an IP address by AWS."

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Configuring an Amazon Web Services static site to use Cloudflare

"Learn how to set up your static content site using Amazon Web Services S3 buckets and Cloudflare proxying. You can use Cloudflare to proxy sites that rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store static content using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3)."

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The Missing Guide to AWS API Gateway Access Logs

"I’ve spent a fair bit of time with API Gateway over the past few years. It’s an awesome (if occasionally frustrating) service for building serverless web APIs using Lambda functions."

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One-liners | Basic | Cheat sheet | Linux Command Library

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The modern web on a slow connection

"A couple years ago, I took a road trip from Wisconsin to Washington and mostly stayed in rural hotels on the way. I expected the internet in rural areas too sparse to have cable internet to be slow, but I was still surprised that a large fraction of the web was inaccessible."

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The Pros and Cons of DRY Code

"Clean code is like clean garbage – it’s only truly clean if it doesn’t exist. In other words, the only clean code is no code. Let’s start with an acknowledgment that a perfectly clean (empty) codebase is useless."

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Security Overview of AWS Lambda

"This whitepaper presents a deep dive into the AWS Lambda service through a security lens. It provides a well-rounded picture of the service, which is useful for new adopters, and deepens understanding of Lambda for current users."
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Understanding DynamoDB Condition Expressions

"If you’re working with DynamoDB, you’re likely to rely on Condition Expressions when manipulating items in your table. Condition Expressions can ensure you don’t overwrite existing users, allow bank account balances to drop below $0, or give Admin access to every user in your application."

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