Microsoft Clarity - An easy to use User Behavior Analytics Tool

 

Microsoft Clarity is a free service that helps users to understand how users are interacting with their websites.

The services offers the ability to record user sessions and also generates a Heat Map for clicks.

Using Gitlab for backing up data to AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage

Gitlab has a generous free tier for CICD called "Gitlab Pipelines", that can be used to store build artifacts (or anything) in AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage for free.

Grab the code here: GitlabToCloud.

Using AWS lambda as a Proxy for any service

Amazon Web Services has a generous free tier for Lambda which involves 1 million free invocations.

With the release of HTTP API for API Gateway, you can use Lambda as a proxy for any service.

The source code is available here -> AWS Lambda Proxy using Nodejs

Getting Started with Fortio for Load testing

We look at Fortio, which is a powerful load testing tool which is free and powered by Google's Go language.

It is a rightful successor to Vegeta which is favourite among Go developers.

New User SignUp with Welcome Email using Firebase FireStore, Cloud Functions and Mailgun

Cloud FireStore and Cloud Functions can be easily used to save user details when a new user creates an account. An email can also be sent easily using an external service like Mailgun.