Are you happy with your application's upload speed? Does your application suffer from slow file uploads? Do the uploads seem to get slower as the file size gets larger? Do some users experience even slower uploads based on their geographic location? Are you looking for a better, stronger, faster way to speed up file uploads? Well, I have a potential solution for you! Let me introduce Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3 presigned URLs... What is the problem? In many traditional applications a client (browser, desktop, mobile, CLI) uploads files to an application server such as Apache, Nginx, or perhaps…

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What is LocalStack? LocalStack is a project that allows for simulating various Amazon Web Service (AWS) services on virtually any machine you choose to. Typically however, LocalStack is intended to aid with local development to help simulate a production like AWS environment. Additionally LocalStack can be used within a well-formed automation test pipeline to simulate AWS services. Why Extend LocalStack? First of all, let me state that LocalStack out of the box (or Docker container) is excellent as-is. In many smaller projects you might find that the entire ecosystem is encapsulated in a…

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What am I doing? As I sit down to write this I realize it has been over thirteen years since I have maintained a website for myself. Back in those days it was a pretty simple server-rendered Java JSP app. I ran it on shared PC sitting in a spare bedroom of my house for several years. ... "Wait a minute... What or who is this BlendedSoftware?" ... Excellent question! First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Russell Scheerer and I've been writing code for nearly 3/4 of my life?! Currently I work as a consultant getting involved in cloud migrations, devops automation, application…

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