Our project began with a small ask: build a small Python back-end using AWS
Lambda and API Gateway (with just a handful of endpoints to support a few pages)
and use Serverless [https://serverless.com/] to manage the Cloud Formation
setup.
Not very involved, not much code, not even much configuration for the deploy.
Next came authentication. In pursuing the joint dreams of DRTW ("don't reinvent
the wheel") and WALCAP ("write as little code as possible"), we selected AWS
Cognito over other opti