Cloud Development

Articles related to cloud software development (AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, OCI, etc.). This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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• Google Cloud Exposed Service Key

  Posted March 22, 2024  in Cloud Development
  

  At the beginning of the year, I published a post called Leaked Credentials from Google Cloud Project that described an issue I had, well it was an issue I created, with my Google Cloud account. I wanted to show some Google Analytics stats on this site and the only way I, at the time, could figure out how to do it was to run some code at build time that collected the data I needed from Google's APIs and added it to the site. To do this, the code required an API key for my Google Analytics data. I created a read-only key and included that key in my site repository on GitHub. Google freaked out and sent me a series of emails yelling at me for what I did.

• Microsoft Sunsets Visual Studio App Center

  Posted March 20, 2024  in Cloud Development
  

  Back in 2017, I had an opportunity to work on the Visual Studio documentation as a contractor. I was trying to find full time work, but jumped at the opportunity to write some docs for Visual Studio. I wrote/updated most of the docs for Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) and since I had multiple books under my belt about Apache Cordova, I was a perfect fit.

• Google Cloud Multiple Functions in a Project

  Posted January 8, 2024  in Cloud Development, Node.js
  

  In my previous post Coding Google Functions Using TypeScript I showed how to code Google Functions using TypeScript. Something else I wanted for my Google Cloud Functions project was to be able to manage multiple functions in a single GitHub project. This post describes how to do it.

• Coding Google Functions Using TypeScript

  Posted January 7, 2024  in Cloud Development, Node.js
  

  Describes how to code Google Cloud Platform Functions using TypeScript.

• Leaked Credentials from Google Cloud Project

  Posted January 6, 2024  in Cloud Development, Eleventy, Web Development
  

  Describes an issue I had connecting Google Analytics to this site; Google Cloud Security complained mightily about access credentials I stored in the site's public repo.

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