Short post on unmarshalling a DynamoDB Map into something strongly typed like a Go struct. If you want to jump straight to some code, here are the Github gists
Author: Benjamen Pyle
I'm just a technologist who is passionate about his family, golf and constantly improving in the ever evolving tech landscape. I am an AWS Community Builder so I like to write about topics related to AWS and Serverless workloads using Golang and Node. I will occasionally throw in some golf articles as well
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Handling Change with AWS Healthlake
One of the features that I am currently missing with AWS Healthlake is a proper “event-ing” framework. With DynamoDB you’ve got streams. With RDS you can use DMS. But with Healthlake there is no native change data capture mechanism.
Being that I’m only working on event driven architectures these days, I needed a way to be able to handle change. What I’m going to show you below is not “sanctioned” but it is 100% AWS native and continues with the Serverless theme. With that said, here’s the Github Repository if you just want to jump ahead. The CDK code will deploy a Healthlake instance @ $.27 / hr so please run cdk destroy npx ts-node bin/app.ts` when you are done
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Mapping AWS State Machine output to API Gateway response with VTL
This is a continuation of a previous article I wrote regarding zero code workflows creating Cognito users with Step Functions. Part of using State Machines with API Gateway is the dealing with the response and potentially VTL mapping
Goals of this article are to document some of the tips and things that I picked up along the way.
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Creating an AWS Cognito User with an Auto-Incrementing ID using AWS Step Functions
So there are a couple of interesting topics in here.
- I’ve been really leaning into code-less workflows with AWS Step Functions and this State Machine has nothing but native SDK integrations which include
- DynamoDB (Put, Delete, Get)
- Cognito/User Pools (AdminCreateUser)
- I’ve run into some legacy code that requires a Username to be a bigint and I don’t want to use an RDBMS so I’m using DynamoDB to generate one for me while also being “race condition” proof
As always, if you want to jump straight to the code, here is the Github repository
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API Gateway Base Path Mapping
AWS API Gateway is fantastic for sitting in front of AWS resources like load balancers and lambda functions and it’s also really great for setting nice domain boundaries around you application code. Let’s enhance the API Gateway experience a little more by levering Base Path Mapping
For instance, if you have boundary A with a set of REST operations and a boundary B with another set of REST operations you now end up with 2 API Gateways with their own FQDN to access those resources. But what if you want to have those separate, but also roll them up under a common domain name? This is where using API Gateway Custom Domains and Base Path mapping while turning off the default endpoints is so helpful. Article below is going to be pretty concise but also very specific to this problem and show how to use API Gateway Base Path Mapping with CDK
If you want to jump to the code, here is the Github repos