Sean van Mulligen

Recent Posts

  • March 03, 2019

    Validating JSON in ColdFusion using JSON Schema

    When building any sort of API, proper documentation and consistency are two of the most important aspects. When building JSON based web services, JSON Schema can be a vital component in the developer’s toolkit to validate both requests and responses and ensure that the API contract is upheld.

  • November 29, 2018

    You can now use Ruby (and any other language you want) with AWS Lambda via the Runtime API

    AWS re:Invent has had many great announcements so far, such as Amazon Personalize, Amazon’s machine learning recommendation engine, and Amazon Forecast, a deep learning service for time-series data forecasting.

  • November 21, 2018

    Transpiling And Publishing ES9 NPM Modules With Babel 7

    There is no doubt that 2018 has been a great year to be a Javascript developer. In particular, we have seen adoption of the Node.js 8 runtime by AWS Lambda as well as Google Cloud Functions. Native support for ES8’s async functions using async/await has been much anticipated, and is definitely a much welcomed step forward for anyone using server-side Javascript.