Intro AWS Serverless Application Model or SAM for short is an Opensource dev tool for building serverless applications on AWS. SAM is a bunch of templates that help defining Infrastructure as Code for serverless applications. Think CloudFormation with shortcuts! I was recently working on a serverless app and had to deploy an API gateway with SSL Certs. The domain was hosted on Route53 and that means all of this can be managed using SAM. Read more

Git just announced a new release (ver 2.2.1) of the git client that fixes a vulnerability affecting all git users on Windows and Mac OSX operating systems. Github says this: The vulnerability concerns Git and Git-compatible clients that access Git repositories in a case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystem. An attacker can craft a malicious Git tree that will cause Git to overwrite its own .git/config file when cloning or checking out a repository, leading to arbitrary command execution in the client machine. Read more

Its a long video at a little over 1.5 hours but there is no better resource on the internet that can explain Git like how this video does!

So, here I was trying to setup Vagrant on my Mac. Everything went fine till the vagrant up command and boom: myfirstvagrantproject $ vagrant up Bringing machine 'projectname' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> projectname: The cookbook path '/Users/cruisemaniac/.berkshelf/projectname/vagrant/berkshelf-20140909-37664-1gf5t34-projectname' doesn't exist. Ignoring... Updating Vagrant's berkshelf: '/Users/cruisemaniac/.berkshelf/projectname/vagrant/berkshelf-20140909-37664-1gf5t34-projectname' RuntimeError: Couldn't determine Berks version: #<Buff::ShellOut::Response:0x00000101040360 @exitstatus=1, @stdout="", @stderr="/Users/cruisemaniac/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:298:in `to_specs': Could not find 'berkshelf' (>= 0) among 56 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)\n\tfrom /Users/cruisemaniac/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:309:in `to_spec'\n\tfrom /Users/cruisemaniac/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:53:in `gem'\n\tfrom /Users/cruisemaniac/. Read more

I was recently trying to setup MySQL with Homebrew and noticed that the mysql server that brew installed was not playing nice with the existing setups. The solution is to wipe out any existing MySQL installs you’ve got on your mac and redo everything from scratch with brew. This makes the mysql installed from Brew your main installation. Read up on this blogpost that details the sequence. 5 minutes, a few commands and all is hanky-panky in mysql land :-) Read more