Cloud Experiences

You probably know what SEO is. The scope of this article is to solve the problem of rich previews when you share a link about your Single Page Application(SPA) on any social media. This problem exists because, as the name suggests SPAs has only one HTML page in which entire application is loaded. This implicitly means that either we solve the problem of meta tags for each application route somehow or follow the workaround as mentioned below to serve content to bots separately. This article makes use of AWS services to achive our goals of rich previews. Assumptions I assume that the SPA is hosted in a S3 bucket and is connected to cloudfront. Read more about cloudfront here .  The concept Maintain a S3 bucket with route names as the folders inside it. Each folder will have an index.html file corresponding to that route. At minimum, this index.html, for any specific route, will have a html document with head section having all the required meta information. When any o...

Azure Functions is a server less compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Azure functions can be used to run piece of code in response to a variety of events/triggers. This include HTTP trigger, Queue triggers, time triggers, etc. Here is the list of all supported triggers in Azure functions. Azure Functions live console This is the live console which gets opened when you click on any of the functions.Whenever the request is made to the function, the logging statements are printed to this live console. The problem with this console is that, its not reliable. It does not give the print statements always. Also when the functions fails with some internal server error, the logs are not printed properly even up to the point before failure. This logs are good for happy path scenarios. Azure Functions Kudu console Its the advance console for azure functions.With KUDU, you can get acess to log files, en...

So now that you have a code ready, next question is how you are going to ship it as a product to end users. The easiest and user friendly solution, is to build the Installer for your product! Building an installer has many advantages, like: User don't have to be worried about the installation steps (the user has to just follow laymen's instructions to get ready to use the product). It eliminates human errors. Makes the product easy to install and use. So now that we have idea of WHY  we need Installers, let see what  packages  offer us to build installers for mac.  Packages is a tool developed for mac. Packages can be either flat or bundle. As per my observations, flat packages cannot be inspected to view the contents of the package. But there are ways to extract the contents for viewing purpose using  pkgutil  utility. In case of Bundle packages, user can view the contents of the bundle directly. Its like a directory. Packages...

Hello People! This article is to share my understanding about cloudsploit and the service they provide to the people. What they do? CloudSploit is a service which analysis your AWS/Azure account for security holes/risks. With people moving to serverless technologies, Azure and AWS are gaining popularity these days at higher rate. Also alot of developers/dev-ops engineers tend to overlook some of the security considerations while setting up services in cloud. CloudSploit is here to address such problems for you! How do they do it? CloudSploit asks you for a access key with read only permissions to your cloud resources. They have a set of plugins, which run using this access key. Each plugin is a javascript function which uses some node cloud SDKs to analyse the services in cloud. Result of what they do When you run CloudSploit, as a final output you get to see different plugins and their test results. The plugins also have recommended actions section which tell...

Hello guys, I am a beginner in Web Development. So it all started with the use of html tags and how the browser interprets and translates this markup for us. I started up with building a small website. Usually when we talk about content websites, the more appealing and user friendly the website is, the more you attract the customers. So i started up browsing for some good UI libraries. In my context, i had assumed that materials UI is only supported by angular. But to my surprise, it was not. Here are the 3 options i could find for materials implementation in simple content websites. materializecss bootstrap-material-design getmdl.io My next worry was, i had to reload the damn thing again and again every time i made some changes either in javascript or html. One of the options that i came accoss is to make use of gulp tasks to automate this whole procedure. This procedure for me involved the following things: Auto reload of browser window on some changes in code. Mi...

Attaching SSL certificate to AWS Elastic BeanStalk's single instance environment Step 1: Create a ssl certificate Go to  this  link to create a free ssl certificate Create folders  .well-known  >  acme-challenge  and put the file which you got while creating a ssl above eg. 2elaFuIeUlvdNUGhnGa3A4NLSPYM21AyK7uHHZNc_s0 The website will need to confirm that you are the legitimate user of the domain for which you are claiming the ssl certificate. To verify, you can go to your node server and add app.get('/.well-known/acme-challenge/2elaFuIeUlvdNUGhnGa3A4NLSPYM21AyK7uHHZNc_s0', function (req, res) { res.sendFile(__dirname + '/.well-known/acme-challenge/2elaFuIeUlvdNUGhnGa3A4NLSPYM21AyK7uHHZNc_s0'); }); Download the certificates Step 2: Upload the ssl certificate to EBS environment Create a folder  .ebextensions Inside this folder, create a file called  https-instance.config  and put the following contents Resource...