Josh Simpson

Using AWS RDS with Node.js and Express.js

It's not an overstatement to say that information and data runs the world. Almost any application, from social media and e-commerce websites to simple time tracker and drawing apps, relies on the very basic and fundamental task of storing and retrieving data in order to run as expected. Amazon's Relational...

Deploying Node.js Apps to AWS EC2 with Docker

Once you've written a web application, there are dozens of offerings to get your app online and usable by other people. One well known offering is part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform - Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 is a core part of AWS, and a lot of...

Publishing and Subscribing to AWS SNS Messages with Node.js

A lot of technology that we see relies on a very immediate request/response cycle - when you make a request to a website, you get a response containing the website you requested, ideally immediately. This all relies on the user making the active decision to request that data. Sometimes,...

Deploying a Node.js App to a DigitalOcean Droplet with Docker