I'm a professional software engineer with a deep interest in web and cloud technologies.
I started working on an open-source project about a year ago to build an embeddable alternative to Redis in Go. That’s when I started building the EchoVault project. Since then, the project has gained some interest and even a few contributors. This a...
AWS Cognito user pools allow you to manage your app's within the AWS ecosystem. It provides all the basic features you'd expect from an auth system. When I'm building an application on AWS infrastructure, I prefer using Cognito user pools due to its ...
AWS offers an easy way to work with web sockets through the WebSockets API in API Gateway. This article is going to be a short walkthrough on how to get started with WebSocket APIs. Setup This is article is based on a serverless framework project. Yo...
I've previously written an article about basic username/password authentication with AWS Cognito. This article will cover registration and authentication using Google. Cognito offers this functionality built into the hosted-ui. However, if you find ...
Recently, I posted an article about pre signup triggers for AWS Cognito user pools. The article went over setting up pre signup validation using a lambda function. In this article, I'm going to demonstrate how to achieve the same goal, but using the ...
In the last article, we leveraged AWS Cognito to handle user authentication in our application. There was a caveat with the setup, email sharing was allowed. We want to make sure that we only have one user per email. We could build this logic into th...
I’ve written quite a few articles about authentication before. This is yet another user auth article. However, this time it’s a little different. Previous articles have been about managing user authentication yourself. In this article, we will be lev...
If you’re building an application, you likely want a lot of users on your platform. However, you don’t just want a large number of users, you want real and high-quality users who will interact with your app. You want to verify those users. It’s commo...
No authentication system is complete without a password reset feature. I would personally never ship a product that did not have this feature included. It is necessary to provide a way for users to recover access to their accounts/data in case of a ...
