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def getParameter(param_name):
    """
    This function reads a secure parameter from AWS' SSM service.

    The request must be passed a valid parameter name, as well as 
    temporary credentials which can be used to access the parameter.

    The parameter's value is returned.
    """
    # Create the SSM Client

alexcasalboni

How to use Python3 Type Hints in AWS Lambda

TL;DR

Static Type Checkers help you find simple (but subtle) bugs in your Python code. Check out lambda_types.py and incrementally improve your code base and development/debugging experience with type hints.

Your Lambda Function code will go from this:

ageis

bitcoind-monitor.py

This is a script written in Python intended to run alongside a Bitcoin node and export statistics for monitoring purposes. It assumes the existence of bitcoin-cli in the PATH and access to the RPC interface over localhost.

It tracks stuff like: block height, difficulty, number of peers, network hash rate, errors, uptime in seconds, mempool size, size of recent blocks, number of transactions within blocks, chaintips, total bytes received and sent, and transaction inputs and outputs. These Bitcoin metrics are refreshed once every 5 minutes.

How it works

Prometheus is a monitoring system and time-series database.