Anthony Heddings
Contributing since June, 2015
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About Anthony Heddings
Anthony Heddings is a tech writer and freelance React developer. He enjoys spending most of his time debugging JavaScript and yelling at his terminal.
Latest Articles
How to Mount an S3 Bucket Locally on Linux
In many ways, S3 buckets act like like cloud hard drives, but are only "object level storage," not block level storage like EBS or EFS.
How to Use Google's Cloud CDN to Speed Up Your Website
CDNs, or Content Delivery Networks, are made up of many edge servers all around the world, and cache your website's content or static files for greater performance and significantly lower last-mile latency to the end user.
Are Containers Worth the Headache?
Containers are a Unix concept that allows applications to be packaged with all their required dependencies into one easy-to-run image.
How to Setup Basic Load Balancing in NGINX
NGINX is commonly used as a web server, but it also does a great job of acting as a reverse proxy and load balancer---a network device designed to handle the bulk of your traffic and route requests to multiple different web servers.
How to Get Started with Auto-Scaling Container Deployments on AWS ECS
AWS's Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a compute engine specifically designed for Docker containers.
Automating Continuous Delivery in Containers with CodeBuild, ECR, and CodeDeploy
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is the process of automating application updates, from changes in source control, to automated builds, to automated deployments to your servers.
Audit Your NPM Dependencies, They Account for 86% of Security Bugs
A recent study conducted by Snyk on the state of open-source security has turned up alarming results---for NPM packages, 86% of security vulnerabilities reside in secondary dependencies that you often have little control over.
How Do Attributes Work in C#?
In C#, Attributes are metadata tags assigned to code, including classes, types, methods, and fields.
What Is AWS Glue and How Do You Use It?
AWS Glue is a managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that is able to process data stored in S3 or DynamoDB and convert it into different formats or schemas for easier use in other services like Athena.
How to Automate Safe Lambda Deployments from Git
Lambda has a web-based text editor that you've probably used before for writing your functions.
How to Use AWS VPN to Lock Down Access to Your Servers
If you want to run a server in a private subnet, you'll need to use a VPN to connect to it.
How to Roll Your Own Dynamic DNS with AWS Route 53
If you've got servers running at home, you won't be able to route a domain to them without a static IP address.
How to Use AWS's API Gateway as a Frontend for Lambda Functions
API Gateway is a fully managed service for building, testing, and hosting production APIs.
How to Set Up a Custom Domain for AWS's API Gateway
AWS's API Gateway is great as a front end for Lambda functions and other AWS services.
How Much Performance Does Your Cloud Server Really Need?
Most cloud providers divide their offerings by number of CPU cores and amount of RAM.
How to Transfer a Domain Name to AWS Route 53
AWS's Route 53 DNS service is awesome---it integrates well with EC2, and is able to dynamically change DNS settings based on latency and health of the endpoints.
How to Create VirtualBox VMs from the Linux Terminal
Most cloud providers will rent virtual servers rather than actual hardware.
How to Play Steam VR Games Wirelessly on Your Oculus Quest
Do you have an Oculus Quest VR headset? You don't have to plug it into your PC to play Steam VR games. Here's how to do it wirelessly.
How To Get Started Using Cloud Storage, Google's Alternative To S3
Google Cloud Storage is an object storage service that allows you to upload files to a virtual bucket, providing quick and easy file storage for your applications.