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Amazon Cognito MFA with Email Using Lambda Triggers
Amazon Cognito is a great service for easily getting started with authentication. It also has multi-factor authentication (MFA) right out of the box using a cell phone for SMS or a TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) device such as Authy or Google Authenticator. The requirement that I had was to...
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Automating Route53 DNS Updates for Blue/Green Deployments (the hard way)
Blue/Green Architecture A blue/green architecture in some form or fashion is a necessity for highly available systems. This means that you have at least two seperate production environments. The blue one is in use, handling live traffic while the green one is a clone of the production system and ready...
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Migrating from Sequel Pro to Sequel Ace
Sequel Pro is a MySQL/MariaDB management GUI for macOS and it has been around for a long time. Sequel Pro’s first release was in 2008 and at the time of this writing, the last one was in 2016. I’ve been using Sequel Pro for the past seven years but with...
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Restoring a MySQL Database from .frm and .ibd Files on MacOS
Ending 2020 by losing all your MySQL data seems about right doesn’t it? I spent a full day recovering my data after updating to the latest Docker version on a NAS. It nuked my MySQL container in the process. Luckily, I had some database files but they were in .frm...