Jul 27, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Get Product by Id. Supporting Updates Sooner or later, there will be a need to modify a product. Except in the case of immutable data stores, rarely are there entities that are truely “insert only”. In order to support...
Jul 26, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Listing. Add Get By Id At this point, we have only one way to get Products. We have to list all products and page through them to find the one we want. However, a lot of the time, a...
Jul 25, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Monitoring. Add listing Clients of our service will need a way to find products. For that, we need a product listing service. DynamoDB provides an operation for listing the contents of a table called a ‘scan’. (As a table...
Jul 24, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Monitoring How do we answer the question: “Is our application performing correctly?” With just one application server we could remotely log into the server, look at CPU and memory load, run grep on the log files and then determine that everything is fine. This approach is manual intensive and obviously...
Jul 23, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Validation. Add Integration or Smoke Tests So far, our testing strategy has consisted of only Unit Testing, testing each module in isolation. While this type of testing covers most business logic, it does leave some gaps. It does not...
Jul 20, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Put. Add model validation We now have a service that allows us to create product records but does not provide any mechanism for ensuring those products contain all the required data we need in the correct format. For this,...
Jul 19, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - DynamoDB. Create put test/endpoint First, lets write a spec for our POST /products endpoint. Create a file called products/createProduct.spec.js with the following contents: const proxyquire = require('proxyquire'); describe('products', function () { describe('createProduct', function () { beforeEach(function () { process.env.PRODUCTS_TABLE_NAME...
Jul 18, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Authentication. Add DynamoDB Before we can start building out our product endpoints, we need a place to store them. For that, we are turning to DynamoDB. Tables are the main component, not a “database”, so we can create just...
Jul 17, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Prerequisites This article builds on the prior article: Node Reference - Cognito. Adding authentication In order to leverage our new identity provider, we need to add a middleware into our Koa pipeline. This middleware will reject requests that do not contain valid tokens. We can accomplish this by using two...
Jul 16, 2018 By Paul Rowe, Matt Vincent Cognito setup In order to secure our application we are going to leverage OpenID Connect. Each request to our application from either another service or a logged in human user will contain a JSON Web Token (a.k.a. JWT) as a “Bearer” token in the Authorization header. This token not only...
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