Create a website and api with AWS Lambda

[@akshaysinha2711]

This video could trigger an epileptic attack. Please add a warning!

[@DanRusk]

you're right, i'll add one

[@Jeethendrakumar]

Great Tutorial, surprisingly I didn't find the flashing so much disturbing, I just didn't always stare at the monitor constantly,. anyways thanks for sharing this knowledge,... Cheers!!

[@babykavin]

Great tutorial! But the flashing is making it really hard to focus on the tutorial. Any plans on re recording it?

[@francisgithii7532]

what about user authentication, sessions and preventing a user from voting twice.

[@Tugyankreel]

Had to come to the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one see8ng flashes

[@garywoodfine]

It is a damn shame about the flashing. You content is awesome, and I was learning a lot, but I had to stop, that although I am not epileptic, I did find the flashing annoying.

[@necival85]

Gary Woodfine same for me. Great content but the flashing is unbearable

[@RegNatarajan]

Really invaluable tutorial! I don't care about the screen flashing. This saved me hours and hours. Maybe weeks.

[@danrusk7762]

Thanks Reg, I appreciate it and I'm glad it helped you

[@crichessill]

We just tried this example. In our case, the dynamodb doesn't trigger the 2nd lambda function to show the vote tally on our website every time there is an update to the dynamoDB table. Essentially, the data.json file isn't updated automatically till we manually click the test button in lambda. also, the data.json file becomes private everytime there is an update to the file.

[@danrusk7762]

Do you have a trigger set up from your dynamodb table to the lambda? That should take care of the update trigger. For the S3 public content, make sure the bucket is set up for static website hosting. That setting is in the properties for the bucket.

[@crichessill]

yes we had the trigger set up.. will look into the static website hosting.. i think we had that enabled as well

[@gabrieldash721]

This tuturial is very good, it helped me a lot. Everyone crying in comments is an idiot

[@WikumEkanayake]

is there any better way to refresh the graph instead of rewriting the data file and reading it ? is there a way to subscribe for a stream sort of thing ? or a simple ajax call to a lambda function to get data ?

[@danrusk7762]

Certainly there are definitely better ways to do this in production. Your questions could lead to a great solution but this tutorial is an attempt to highlight some interesting things you can do with api gateway/lambda/dynamo without an overload of implementation. For instance, you could add an API Gateway endpoint that reads from the file rather than just reading the file directly as a start.

[@csbhaskar]

So much flickering, please re-record.

[@maridontable]

oh my gooooood the flashing. Got like 3 and a half minutes in, HAD to stop. You're making videos that are probably so relevant, but I can't watch them with that.

[@danrusk7762]

I should have time this summer to record some new videos. I wish I could remove the flashes from this video. I have different screen capture software now so it won't be a problem in the future.

[@MikeRice]

great info, but now i have a headache and not 10min into it either. =C

[@celestial_crash0]

there's got to be some video editing software that removes the flashes by now...

[@danrusk7762]

I looked for free software for a while. I tried writing something using ffmpeg, but couldn't get it to work. It would take less effort to just re-record the video, which I may do at some point. In August, We will be posting another video to the ThornTech channel kzbin.info/door/Tin6nob3CGnmZn7-sokHcA on a very similar topic.

[@vijay.khanna]

Great Efforts.. the presentation is very crisp.. How can i get a copy of the code you have used

[@danrusk7762]

Vijay Khanna glad it was helpful to you! the code and other resources can be found in the associated blog post: www.thorntech.com/2016/10/serverless-website-aws-lambda/

[@noahsuresh6706]

Can you please share your code

[@danrusk7762]

Hey Noah, there is a zip of the code and instructions on the blogpost at www.thorntech.com/2016/10/serverless-website-aws-lambda/

[@JonathanAgoot]

I'm sure the content is great but this is not watchable.

[@aleXelaMec]

wattahack with the flickering?! sending some code by video?! killed me (

[@gordhenschel1419]

I thought I could handle the strobing, I got to 22 min and quit with a brutal headache.

[@danrusk7762]

Sorry for the physical pain! For a more well produced video on the same topic, check out Robert Chen's video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpKmk3x8fcSXb80

[@nickross4059]

This is unwatchable due to flashing

[@danrusk7762]

If you pattern blinking your eyes with the flashes, it isn't too bad

[@danrusk7762]

nick ross check out my coworkers video on a similar topic. it has no flashing kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpKmk3x8fcSXb80

[@krishnapurna]

lots of screen flashes

[@aldebaranh666]

your screen flashes...

[@danrusk7762]

you're right, the screen flashes are unfortunate. I re-recorded some of the worst offenders, but it had to do with recording and casting to an apple tv at the same time.

[@josephastrahan6403]

what I do is pause the video to help with it

[@vishfulthinker]

Excellent content. Downvote for the flashing :(