Content Creator, Developer, and Fullstack Serverless.

I'm Michael, aka Focus Otter 🦦. I'm a software engineer living in the midwest United States. My passion is taking complex aspects of development and simplifying them through written and video tutorials. Current focus is React, TypeScript, NextJS and AWS.

How to Deploy Sharp as an AWS Lambda Function Layer

Sharp is a popular library for resizing images in Node.js. However, getting it to work in an AWS Lambda function can be tricky. This post shows how to deploy it as a Lambda function layer.

The Complete Guide to Integrating Clerk with an AWS Backend

Clerk is more than just a auth provider. It's an entire user management platform that makes it really simple to get authentication setup. However, adding a third-party SaaS when the rest of your application backend is built on AWS can seem tricky. That's why in this post, I'm going to show exactly how to put the two together.

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    Focus Otter Solutions, LLC
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