NotesWith Serverless, it's easier than ever to deploy production-ready API endpoints. However, using AWS API Gateway results in odd hostnames for your endpoints. Further, these hostnames will change if you remove and redeploy your service, which can cause problems for existing clients.
In this guide, I'll show you how to map a custom domain name to your endpoints.FeedUnfurl
NotesI remember reading about the no-www movement years ago. At that time it struck me as a cool thing to do, but I now know that no-www is a really bad idea in general. Thatâs because the DNS system lets you assign CNAME records to subdomains, including the www subdomain, but only A or AAAA records to root domains. In other words, you can say that www.example.com is the same as test.example.org, but you can only say that example.com is the same as a particular IP address.Unfurl
NotesEver seen those sites with using anything.domain.com as URLs? An example from yesteryear would be ytmnd.com. If you want this on your site, read on.Unfurl
NotesAfter a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet search engines" and "all social media websites"âexplicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Googleâto "de-index" the domain names and to remove them from any search results.Unfurl
Notes"Or, for the sheer geeky joy of it, he could reroute all of .com into his laptop, the digital equivalent of channeling the Mississippi into a bathtub. It was a moment hackers around the world dream ofâa tool that could give them unimaginable power. But maybe it was best simply to close his laptop and forget it. He could pretend he hadn't just stumbled over a skeleton key to the Net. Life would certainly be less complicated. If he stole money, he'd risk prison. If he told the world, he'd be the messenger of doom, potentially triggering a collapse of Web-based commerce."Unfurl
Notes"After offloading some website traffic to S3 I started to wonder if there was a way to get rid of the S3 URL and replace it with something that has my own domain in it."Unfurl
How to set up a custom domain name for Lambda & API Gateway with Serverless
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook