In this blog post I present an actionable, focused checklist for the bare minimum, required SEO. Search engines provide links to useful pages based on user queries. You want search engines to return links to YOUR web page. To improve your chances...
Operational document stores require backups for disaster recovery and data migration. Elasticsearch uses the term snapshot for their backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a fully managed Elasticsearch service that includes both automatic...
Flask, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM and S3 enable massively scalable web database applications. Flask provides a simple, Pythonic Model View Controller (MVC) framework to develop the application logic. Lambda and API Gateway provide pay-per-use...
I deployed my first web database application back in 2002 thanks to the seminal O'Reilly book Web Database Applications with PHP and Mysql by David Lane and Hugh E. Williams. In the past sixteen years, the industry developed tons of frameworks...
Part Two of this HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your S3 hosted website with HTTPS. If you haven't completed part one yet, be sure to click here. Once you complete this HOWTO, you will have a secure website, that Google approves, as seen in the...
This HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your Simple Storage Service (S3) hosted website via Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). While the S3 Representational State Transfer (REST) enpoint supports native HTTPS, an S3 bucket configured to...
All production databases require backups. The AWS Elasticsearch documentation states: Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) takes daily automated snapshots of the primary index shards in an Amazon ES domain... However, you must contact the AWS...