- How to actually call your on-call engineers — In a previous article I went over how to create a Slack bot with Serverless Framework, to get the person on-call from a PagerDuty on-call rotation and respond with name and number in Slack. The bot described in that article is actually preceded by…

As you progress your career as a developer there is one thing that I think all senior developers can relate to. The more experience and “higher up the ladder you climb”, the less time you have to just write code. Being a Staff Engineer means you work by an entirely…

Using AWS Lambda and other AWS services to build a cost efficient, highly available email formatting and delivery service with event tracking. Creating email layouts is hell on earth. Manually writing HTML from ’99 with tables and blink tags more or less. CSS is restricted, JavaScript out of the question…

Securing APIs with token introspection — Creating secure APIs can be challenging… Should you use API keys or Access tokens? Build your own Authorization server or use an existing one? One thing is certain, you need to know that those calling your endpoints are authorized to do so. OAuth 2.0 is a de-facto standard for authorizing…