Is it Week 3 already!
January 20th, 2022This quarter is going super fast.
I missed the week 2 blog post entirely. That is the first “no show” I have had in the entire program. Gives a pretty good insight to my overall mental status.
The team’s project is fully underway! I have used a mis-mash of old sites to setup and start coding a skeleton for the team. I also used my recent AWS studies to get the site already setup and running in the web. It isn’t my “ideal” setup yet but I will work towards that as the quarter progresses.
The code is currently just loaded directly on a EC2 virtual machine. By the end of the quarter, I would like to get it setup in a Docker container and setup a container service setup that will reload/populate the EC2 instance if it has to be rebooted. That longer term thinking of how to implement a service is something I want to get more practice with.
I also setup a username/password system for the site using dynamoDB. I haven’t used DynamoDB before, so that was a bit of an experience. I am excited to try to setup a system where the user can re-set their password if they loose it through an email. I have found a few tutorials on how to do it with Dynamo in the AWS environment and look forward to expanding my knowledge.
The final big challenge on our site is we are going to try to store our data in dynamoDB based on geographic coordinates so the search for items that are geographically close to the search term is quick. We have found some reference docs and are excited to explore.
Until next time faithful reader(s)
