A few weeks ago, I asked my good friends Alastair Cooke & Chris Williams how I could be useful to them & the vBrownBag.com website. Al suggested that I take a look at the automation script, affectionately known as “the meatgrinder” that had been running behind the scenes for years but hadn’t been running for […]
What's in the bag? Behind the scenes at vBrownBag.com
Part 2 of “What’s in the bag?” Behind the scenes at vBrownBag.com
OK, so now that I’ve got this blog dusted off, decided on a new direction and archived all of the old posts, let’s get cracking on part 2 of this series. I’ll be going into very specific detail about what the new meatgrinder/automator process needs to do, and then branch out into how each of […]
Part 3 of “What’s in the bag?” Behind the scenes at vBrownBag.com
In Part 2, we covered the Meatgrinder process flow. In this post, we’ll cover the development environment and change management tools. I decided to write this Lambda function on my Windows 11 machine because I’d started this effort by writing code to “catch up” the website & the podcast RSS file, and naively thought that […]
Part 4 of “What’s in the bag?” Behind the scenes at vBrownBag.com
In Part 3 of this series, I covered the development environment & tools. In this installment, I’d like to show you how I’ve decided to orchestrate the workflow around the Lambda function. You may also want to review the overall process in Part 2, as I’ll be referring to how I decided to implement the […]
Part 5 of “What’s in the bag?” Behind the scenes at vBrownBag.com
Part 4 of this series covered orchestration of the AWS Lambda function using AWS Step Functions & EventBridge. In this post, I’d like to cover Google OAuth with PSAuthClient, decrypting AWS Lambda environment variables, and more. Google OAuth with PSAuthClient Some quick introductory info: there are two ways of authenticating with the YouTube data API. […]