Mark Wolfe's Blog

A mashup is a term that became popular in the 2010s for applications that combined two or more data sources into a single user interface.

For anyone who has been following AI and software development, things are changing rapidly, this includes how we build software.

Connect RPC is a suite of libraries which enable you to build HTTP based APIs which are gRPC compatible.

Over the last few years there has been a push away from using machine identity for continuous integration (CI) agents, or runners, and instead use a more targeted, least privileged approach to authentication and authorization.

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, I am often asked what is the best way to organise datasets in S3 .

As a developer who works with Go in my day-to-day development, I constantly struggle with third party packages or tools which bring in a lot of dependencies.

As a software developer, I have seen a lot of changes over the years, however few have been as drastic as the rise of artificial intelligence.

I have been working with Amazon API Gateway for a while and one thing I noticed is there are a few options for authentication, which can be confusing to developers, and lead to security issues.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is deprecating the go1.x runtime on Lambda , this is currently scheduled for December 31, 2023.

I recently started using Terraform Cloud but discovered that the getting started tutorial which describes how to integrate it with Amazon Web Services (AWS) suggested using IAM user credentials .

Recently I have been looking into automated security remediation to understand its impacts, positive and negative.

I was inspired by others to document the tools I use working as a software developer professionally, and hacking on side projects out side of work.

Billing is an integral part of day to day AWS account operation, and to most it seems like a chore, however there is a lot to be learnt interacting with AWS Billing data.

There has been a lot of press about supply chain attacks recently, these type of attacks are nothing new and understanding them is really important for developers using services such as GitHub Actions , given Continuos integration (CI) tools are a critical

We have all read horror stories of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets being “hacked” in the popular media, and we have seen lots of work by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to tighten up controls and messaging around best practices.

For some time now I have been working on internal, and some product related services which use AWS events, some of this has been paired with AppSync subscriptions , slack and AWS SNS .

Given the changes with Go Modules I wanted to document a brief getting started for Go projects, this will focus on building a minimal web service.

Assuming you read my Starting a Go Project post you should have the starting point for a minimal go web service.

In my spare time I spend a bit of time building and working on a scaled down self driving RC project which uses an opensource project called donkeycar .

The AWS Cognito product enables developers to build web or API based applications without worrying about authentication and authorisation.

Early this year amazon web services released the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which is best summed up by a quote from the GitHub project.

Step Functions allow you to build pipelines involving one or more amazon, or external service.

Background jobs form the backbone of a lot of modern applications, they are used to perform a range of asynchronous tasks, from image processing through to order processing, fulfillment and shipping.

So the DeepRacer was released with much fanfare by Amazon Web Services (AWS) at this years Reinvent conference in Las Vegas.

I have been looking into the Versioned Go Command which was released recently by Russ Cox .

As a user of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in large organisations I am always mindful of providing a mechanism to enable single sign on (SSO) to simplify the login process for users, enable strict controls for the organisation, and simplify on/off boarding for

Over the last few months I have been working on a project which uses DynamoDB almost exclusively for persistence, this has been a big challenge for everyone on the team.

Lately I have been using apex to build a side project, this tool stream lines building and deploying serverless applications using AWS Lambda .

I have been helping a few people get up and running with golang lately and thought it was about time to post a brief getting started.

This describes how to develop front-end projects with webpack inside a docker container using boot2docker on OSX.

With the almost continuous release of new Internet of Things (IoT) hardware platforms and development boards it is not surprising that SDK delivery has seen a shift to piecemeal and “some assembly required” solutions.

Mark Wolfe I have spent the last 25 years working in the software industry, across operations, software development and leadership.

Having worked with Github for the last six years, commercially for the last three I thought I would do a post on security, or more specifically, protecting your projects, and the ones you work on for others, this may be friends, or it could be a company.

This post will illustrate how to use the new syslog logging driver for Docker , along with some notes on using docker-machine .

For the last 6 months I have been using Go as my primary development language and for a large part of that I have been using sublime text 3 .

Currently golang has no standard package manager; this in my view makes it a harder for those new to the language. golang has for the most part been a pleasure to use, built-in features are well thought out and help new users get started fast.

Recently I have been helping Andy Gelme with a project which uses contiki-os , and 6lowpan on a device called a MeshThing .

The aim of this guide is to get people getting started with Node.js and npm , while also showing some of the handy commands I use to bootstrap my projects.

I am currently working on building a simple wireless sensor using the ATmega256RFR2 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit .

Recently I started work for a new employer who runs has a number of applications hosted on Heroku , my typical strategy when faced with a new environment and systems is try and get some monitoring in place as soon as possible.

The aim of this post is to guide the reader through the process of installing ruby 2.0.0 into rbenv with dtrace probes enabled.

For some time I have had a Raspberry Pi languishing on my desk, like many I bought one early on and played around with it for a while and then got busy with other stuff.

To start with a little background, then I will outline the options for authentication of HTTP based server APIs with a focus on HMAC and lastly I will provide some tips for developers building and using HMAC based authentication.

The latest release of the Ruby plugin I develop for Atlassian Bamboo now includes some new configuration options for Bundler along with a number of other additions and improvements.

I have been working on an update of my Bamboo ruby plugin which uses bundler to install all the gems for a given project within the working copy of the project and then run rake using these gems.

I am currently working on new design for my site using HTML5, CSS and a sprinkling of JavaScript.

Having recently developed a plugin (Ruby Rake Plugin ) for Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration (CI) server I thought I would put together a list of tips for those looking to do the same.

Currently I do quite a bit of work in and around the Java virtual machine (JVM), most of the time on Linux.

Having recently started working with chef I have come up with a simple method of kickstarting use of it in the small end of town.

The following post is a review of the new installer added in 4.4 of Atlassian JIRA.