BackSpace is now on Udemy. Get your free access!!!

BackSpace is now on Udemy. Get your free access!!!

Many of you have been requesting we put our courses on Udemy and we have finally listened. We are now listed on Udemy and future courses will also be on Udemy. As an introductory offer we are giving the following deals: FREE access to any existing paid members of backspace ...

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Super Fast Dynamic Websites with CloudFront, ReactJS, and NodeJS - Part 1

Super Fast Dynamic Websites with CloudFront, ReactJS, and NodeJS - Part 1

CloudFront should be an essential component of any web based application deployment. It not only instantly provides super low-latency performance, it also dramatically reduces server costs while providing maximum server uptime. Creating low latency static websites with CloudFront ...

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Attention all exam preppers! AWS Answers

Attention all exam preppers! AWS Answers

AWS has just released a new AWS Answers page that is essential reading for those preparing for the certification exams. It provides a great overview of AWS architecture consideration ...

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YAML and CloudFormation. Yippee!!!

YAML and CloudFormation. Yippee!!!

YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language I spend a heck of a lot of time coding and, like many devops guys, love Coffeescript, Jade, Stylus and YAML. No chasing missing semicolons, commas and curly braces. I just write clean code how it should be and, at least twice as fast. JSON, like ...

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Shared Responsibility 3 - Identify and Destroy the Bots

Shared Responsibility 3 - Identify and Destroy the Bots

Please note: You should have a link in your login for blind or vision impaired people. These techniques will prevent them from using your application. They could be accommodated using an alternative dual factor authentication process. In my last post I detailed how to create ...

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New Classroom Website

New Classroom Website

We have just started updating our classroom website: We now accept PayPal and use Paypal for all transactions including credit cards (no more Stripe). Runs on all browsers. One click login using Facebook (more options will be added soon) Login is no longer with username ...

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Shared Responsibility 2 - Using Dynamic CSS Selectors to stop the bots.

Shared Responsibility 2 - Using Dynamic CSS Selectors to stop the bots.

In my last post I talked about techniques to stop malicious web automation services at the source before they reach AWS infrastructure. Now we will get our hands dirty with some code to put it into action. Don't worry if you are not an experienced coder, you should still be able ...

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