Learn how to generate the signature required for Alipay Payment APIs using NodeJS. The first step to integrate Alipay to your application is to figure out how to generate the signature needed for authorisation when calling any Alipay Payment API. Why is this a difficult task? Isn't it just a…

Learn how to set up a Snowplow real-time analytics pipeline in your AWS environment. Snowplow is ideal for data teams who want to manage the collection and warehousing of data across all their platforms in real-time. Objective To set up a real-time pipeline using Snowplow open-source. To verify the end to…

Learn how Snowplow is different from GTM or Tealium and how you can integrate Snowplow with GTM or Tealium. Snowplow with GTM Snowplow Snowplow is an analytics platform. Snowplow Analytics is an open-source enterprise event-level analytics platform that enables the data collection from multiple platforms for advanced data analytics. Snowplow is for companies who…

Let us compare Snowplow Analytics with MixPanel to choose the right solution for your analytics use case. Both Snowplow and Mixpanel are analytics platforms. Snowplow is an open-source alternative to Mixpanel. What is Mixpanel? Actions speak louder than page views. Mixpanel is an advanced analytics service that helps improve web and mobile applications…

Let us identify the right E2E testing framework for JavaScript-based client applications and propose an effective E2E testing process in the end. What is End-to-END (E2E) testing? End-to-End (E2E) testing is a technique used to test whether the flow of an application right from start to finish is behaving as expected. In simple terms, a…

Learn how to build a simple interactive Slack bot using AWS Serverless technologies. Let us first set up the Serverless Slack Bot in AWS Below Github repository contains the code for a simple serverless slack bot configured using serverless framework. Github URL: https://github.com/aswinkumar4018/serverless-slack-bot Prerequisite: 1. CLI access to an AWS Account. 2. …

Learn what is GraphQL, Serverless, AWS AppSync and how they can be combined to build a Serverless GraphQL application with AWS AppSync and deployed using Serverless framework. What is GraphQL? GraphQL is basically two things in one name. A simple query language for APIs A server-side runtime to automatically parse and resolve those…

Learn everything about Snowplow Analytics ranging from tracking, collection of events to validation, enrichment and storage of events data. Snowplow is ideal for data teams who want to manage the collection and warehousing of data across all their platforms in real-time.

Learn how to setup AWS API Gateway as a proxy to AppSync. But why need a proxy to AWS AppSync? Reasons: AWS AppSync does not support Rate Limiting OOTB. AWS AppSync does not support installing an SSL certificate without having to use a CloudFront Distribution. Worry not! API Gateway can…