Category: Technical How-to

Testing a mobile or web app on a real device often requires a secure connection to private endpoints. These endpoints are often hosted on AWS inside a VPC, on-premises, a cloud provider, or a mix of those configurations. In addition, you may want the host machines, to which your devices are connected, to be able […]

Note: This post is an update and extension to a previous blog post “Running end-to-end Cypress tests for your fullstack CI/CD deployment with Amplify Console“ Overview Automating the process of building, testing, and deploying software allows for faster delivery of high-quality software and can help reduce the risk of errors, as developers can catch and […]

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to create GraphQL APIs that can securely access, manipulate and combine data from one or more data sources. When you create a GraphQL API on AppSync, a public endpoint will be generated which can be used to send queries, mutations and subscriptions requests to the […]

Until recently, the primary reasons for rooting an Android device were to install custom ROMS, themes, or have access to file explorer on the device. Now, however, rooting devices is not just for customization but also unlocks utilities that help analyze and improve the performance of your app. With the launch of support for rooted […]

Every day, trucks transport millions of tons of goods across the country, and the efficiency of their routing has a significant impact not only on logistics companies’ bottom line but also on the economy as a whole. Efficient truck routing is an essential component of the transportation and logistics industry, involving strategic planning of the […]

The Amplify Library for Swift is now generally available for macOS. Amplify is an open-source client-side library making it easier to access a cloud backend from your front-end application code. It provides language-specific constructs to abstract low-level details of the cloud API. It helps you to integrate services such as analytics, object storage, REST or […]

Routing optimization for waste bin collection In everyday life, we often use routing services to get directions on how to get from point A (i.e. home) to point B (i.e. work). Behind the scenes of these services, there are algorithms that calculate the best way to reach point B from point A and provide with […]

AWS Amplify makes it possible to add custom AWS resources to an Amplify-created backend using the amplify add custom command and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or AWS CloudFormation. By doing so, developers can easily add and manage AWS resources beyond Amplify’s built-in use cases to their projects. AWS Amplify makes it fast […]

This post builds on the initial post, Deploy a Next.js 13 app with authentication to AWS Amplify, which initialized our project with AWS Cognito authentication and deployed our project to Amplify Hosting and the previous post, Build a Product Roadmap with Next.js and Amplify, where we built an admin page for product managers to login […]

Branch Insurance is an insurance technology startup that provides simple insurance policies and comprehensive bundles to customers in the United States. The company set out to radically simplify the end-user experience for insurance customers by offering bindable prices based on just a couple simple pieces of information – the customer’s name and address. One of Branch’s […]