Consideration about cdk-notifier and Tags
Description of the diff consequence of two ways of tagging in CDK
Apr 20, 20242 min read
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Use cdk-notifier to compare changes in pull requests
Use case Especially in serverless environments, features will be created with ephemeral stacks, which will be deleted after merging to the main branch. Comparing the cdk diff between the feature branch and the main branch will help to understand whic...
Dec 16, 20232 min read
Example how to use zod with CDK serverless v2
The AWS CDK Serverless Toolsuite from Thorsten Hoeger helps, among others, to deploy an API Gateway from OpenApi specs and a DynamoDb from DynamoDb onetable data modeling. The advantage is to leverage the type safety from Typscript generated from the...
Aug 19, 20236 min read
Example how to trigger a Dynamodb export and create an Athena saved query with CDK
In this post is described how to get the data to analyze the changes in the dynamodb data. This post describes how to (semi) automate the export of the dynamodb table data and analyze it with Athena. This post describes how you can do that manually. ...
Oct 3, 20222 min read
Example how to visualize DynamoDB item changes with Quicksight (S3 source) created with CDK
This post is about how to visualize the DynamoDb data changes with Quicksight. It’s an extension of this post, which describes how to analyze the data with Athena. The setting for creating the DynamoDb table and putting the data changes to a S3 bucke...
Sep 17, 20225 min read
Example how to create Athena saved queries with CDK
In this post is a example of a Athena query to get the the current data of the DynamoDb table. This post explains how to provide this query with CDK as a saved query in Athena to have the query stored “nearby” the editor and that the query fits to th...
Aug 22, 20223 min read
Example how to analyze DynamoDB item changes with Kinesis and Athena created with CDK
This is the same like described here. To bootstrap the project run this command: cdk init app --language typescriptFurther information are here All the services are in this file. Updates 2022-09-11: Add prefix for kinesis data firehose S3 destination...
Oct 26, 20213 min read
Example how to analyze DynamoDB item changes with Kinesis and Athena created with Terraform
Why? The data of a DynamoDb table is not so easy to analyze as a RDS with e.g., the pgAdmin. It will be somehow possible with scan operation but it’s in the most cases not recommented. Another possibility is the export to S3 functionylity. In this po...
Aug 27, 20214 min read
How to setup AWS Billing metrics in Grafana Cloud via Terraform
Why Terraform? In this post I described how to display AWS Billing metrics in Grafana Cloud. Therefore it was necessary to create manually the data source and the dashboard. With Terraform, you can describe the setup as code and benefit from the full...
Dec 19, 20204 min read