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James Miller

@bensie
Constantly building, mostly @gethotsock. Lots of AWS, lots of Go.
San Diego
Joined July 2008
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  • @bensie
    James Miller
    @bensie
    Oct 14, 2024
    Per-message retention here is backed by @dynamodb TTLs. Such an under-appreciated database feature that is handled flawlessly in DynamoDB and S3. Deleting data should always be this easy!
    @gethotsock
    Hotsock
    @gethotsock
    Oct 14, 2024
    Just released in Hotsock - Message Storage! - Store messages and configure retention on a per-message basis. - Clients can fetch message history with granular channel-level permissions on how much history is available to each connection. hotsock.io/blog/message-s… #serverless #aws
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  • @bensie
    James Miller
    @bensie
    Sep 24, 2024
    Is this an @awscloud permissions oversight? If you can write to any CloudWatch Logs log stream, you're implicitly granted account-wide CloudWatch Metrics publishing permissions - any metrics in any namespaces. Just write logs to the stream using CloudWatch embedded metric format.
  • @bensie
    James Miller
    @bensie
    Aug 30, 2024
    Weird discovery - seems it’s darn near impossible to get @awscloud Lambda invocations to run (billable) in less than 1ms, even if they’re doing absolutely nothing (Go / provided.al2023 / arm64). I can consistently get 1.08-1.2ms, but all that time is pre-handler overhead.
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  • @bensie
    James Miller
    @bensie
    Aug 30, 2024
    Along with @gethotsock earlier this week, I released a pre-built CloudFormation stack where you can invoke a Lambda function that signs JWTs with secure key custody in either KMS or Parameter Store.
    GitHub - hotsock/jwt-issuer: Issue JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) securely from Lambda in your AWS account...
    From github.com
  • @bensie
    James Miller
    @bensie
    Aug 28, 2024
    Been working on this for awhile and pretty excited about it! Hotsock is a serverless real-time messaging service that installs to your AWS account. Data is always private, and there's no maintenance because it auto-updates and backing services are all fully managed by @awscloud.
    @gethotsock
    Hotsock
    @gethotsock
    Aug 27, 2024
    Today is the day! Hotsock is released! 🚀 Power real-time features like chat, multiplayer use cases, document collaboration, and more - all fully-private and securely hosted in your own AWS account. hotsock.io/blog/hotsock-v… #serverless #aws #iac #privacy
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