Removing Metadata from files before you post or share them is a critical step in protecting your privacy. Many people don’t realize that photos and videos, especially those taken with your cell phone, contain extra information called Metadata. Some of this Metadata is safe and boring. It includes things like the exposure information from the…
This is the post on AWS Lambda Layers I wish I had been able to read at the start. AWS Lambda Layers are actually extremely simple. A Layer is a zip file, whose contents will be unzipped into /opt/ when the Lambda executes. That’s it. That can be files, libraries, executables, etc…. My most…
Using this free open source AWS S3 Lambda upload example and tutorial you can get your website handling user file uploads to AWS S3 in a secure and scalable architecture. And it will just take a few minutes! The Problem It’s a common use case to have users of your site upload files. The typical…
What we discovered trying to run Java Spring applications on AWS Lambda. Learn from our mistakes!