https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/tags/git/ Recent content in Git on James Montgomery Hugo en-gb Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/2020/09/migrating-site-to-aws/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/2020/09/migrating-site-to-aws/ <h2 id="tl-dr">TL; DR</h2> <p>Some time ago, I decided to multi-cloud my site. I&rsquo;ve recently decided to revert to a single cloud hosting provider. I&rsquo;m taking the opportunity to experience Amplify static hosting for this site.</p> <h2 id="challenges-with-the-previous-configuration">Challenges with the previous configuration</h2> <p>Multiple hosting locations meant multiple build processes.</p> <div class="box alt"> <div class="row uniform"> <div class="1u"> <span class="image fit"> <img src='https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/img/2020/09/duelstack.jpeg' alt="Duel stack overview"> </span></div> </div> </div> <p>In effect, the site was built, deployed (to Firebase) then rebuilt and redeployed (to AWS). Admittedly, the latter was rarely an overhead as the AWS Amplify CI/CD workflow was triggered upon commit to the master branch on CodeCommit.</p> https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/2019/02/google-firebase-with-a-side-of-aws-amplify/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/2019/02/google-firebase-with-a-side-of-aws-amplify/ <h2 id="tl-dr">TL; DR</h2> <p>In this post, I&rsquo;ll discuss a rabbit hole that I went down with only a thin excuse as the reason. And here it is, a Reddit reply to a shared post from this site:</p> <blockquote> <p>I can&rsquo;t view on my desktop because your site is blocked on my network. Sorry</p> </blockquote> <p>The rabbit hole in question? Dual stacking <a href="https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/projects/this-site/">this site</a> across Google and Amazon infrastructure.</p> <h2 id="introducing-aws-amplify">Introducing AWS Amplify</h2> <p>I first read about Amplify in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/aws-mobile-gets-amplified/">this blog post</a>. It discussed the launch of Amplify Console as an evolution of the framework that proceeded it into a service offering. Described as:</p>