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Xavier Reed

@xreedPortland, ORJoined August 2020

Full-Stack Engineer of 4 years | Writes about full stack, from Javascript to PostgreSQL and everything in between

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Interfacing with Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Connecting Your App to Google’s APIs

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google’s own suite of cloud computing services, similar to Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Often times, you’ll need to interface your client’s or perhaps your own personal applications with any one of Google’s many serv...

Aug 6, 2025 · 3 min readfullstax.hashnode.dev

Serverless in AWS: Lambda Functions That Generate and Upload Files to S3

AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven solution for compute that abstracts away the need for us, the developer, to worry about any infrastructure, while S3 is a general purpose storage solution. In other words, we can use a simple script (a “lambda...

Aug 4, 2025 · 5 min readfullstax.hashnode.dev

AWS: Deploy a Real-World AWS Lambda

Create, deploy and monitor a simple AWS lambda function in a real-world workflow, including securely using API keys/credentials, creating separate deployment environments, and more. Note this assumes you’ve already created an account on AWS (if not, ...

Jul 28, 2025 · 6 min readfullstax.hashnode.dev

Top Ways to Improve API Performance

As the fundamental layer between your users and database, your API and its performance are tantamount to how quick and responsive your application looks and feels to your users. Here we will discuss the top ways to increase the performance of your Ap...

Jul 14, 2025 · 5 min readfullstax.hashnode.dev

AWS: How to Set Up Users in AWS for Your Organization

Setting up users for your organization’s employees who need access to AWS is an important initial step when using AWS in your organization, as it controls the tasks each employee is allowed to take as well as the AWS services they are allowed to use....

Jun 30, 2025 · 5 min readfullstax.hashnode.dev

Xavier Reed

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Xavier Reed's blogs

Interfacing with Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Connecting Your App to Google’s APIs

Serverless in AWS: Lambda Functions That Generate and Upload Files to S3

AWS: Deploy a Real-World AWS Lambda

Top Ways to Improve API Performance

AWS: How to Set Up Users in AWS for Your Organization

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Xavier Reed

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Xavier Reed's blogs

Interfacing with Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Connecting Your App to Google’s APIs

Serverless in AWS: Lambda Functions That Generate and Upload Files to S3

AWS: Deploy a Real-World AWS Lambda

Top Ways to Improve API Performance

AWS: How to Set Up Users in AWS for Your Organization