VAVictor Anuebunwainlog.victoranuebunwa.com·May 30, 2025 · 6 min readYour application should be PCI-DSS-compliant. 🔒If you’ve ever had to write an app to process card payments, not like integrating PayPal, but like being PayPal. You’ve probably heard of PCI DSS. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard for organiz...01J
VAVictor Anuebunwainlog.victoranuebunwa.com·May 21, 2023 · 5 min readAWS Lambda and RDS Connection Nightmare (How I Got Out) 🧟♂️Some years back, I remember feeling fancy about my AWS Lambda and RDS setup until we had to process some large data from a CSV. In summary, it was a bad day. Database memory usage flew up, database connections flew up, my heart flew up, and the whole...02JA
VAVictor Anuebunwainlog.victoranuebunwa.com·Sep 7, 2021 · 5 min readHow we reduced our NodeJs app size on AWS Lambda by over 80% 😮This article highlights the steps we took to reduce the size of our NodeJs apps running on AWS Lambda but it still relates to any Node app running anywhere. In the end, you'll find out how we dropped our 50MB - 75MB (compressed) node apps to 8MB - 10...02KPKA
VAVictor Anuebunwainlog.victoranuebunwa.com·Sep 2, 2021 · 15 min readList of node packages pre-installed on AWS Lambda runtimeIn the desire to make our node_modules folder as small as possible when deploying on Lambda, we thought about reusing node packages that could already be existing on Lambda in my team. But after searching and rephrasing keywords severally, we couldn'...01V
VAVictor Anuebunwainlog.victoranuebunwa.com·Aug 31, 2021 · 3 min readHow I survive testing on NodeJs and Jest 🤒Coming from a PHP background and with PHPUnit testing, I started my journey into writing tests on NodeJs with some expectations. For most, I was disappointed but for some, I was blown away. I guess this is a feeling you have to get used to with JavaS...03EKL
