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During my maternity leave I've tried not to take on too much that's not baby related, and I've certainly been glad for it!

Looking back on 2024!

It's been 10 years since AWS launched AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS!

2023 has been a massive year.

If you're looking to get started building serverless applications on AWS, this resource guide is for you!

One of the top requested features for my daily Chinese vocabulary app was the ability to hear the audio pronunciation for words.

It's been a packed year!

This blog post is Part 2 in a series on refactoring my daily Chinese vocab app to a single-table design in Amazon DynamoDB.

This blog post is Part 1 in a series on refactoring my daily Chinese vocab app to a single-table design in Amazon DynamoDB.

Through the ups-and-downs of 2021, there's a lot of great things to look back on - personal coding projects progress, speaking, a new role at AWS, new hobbies, and getting to do a little bit of travel!

When should you unit test Lambda functions locally?

It was such a privilege to be able to give a re:Invent talk this past year, especially one that is so important to me!

I'm so excited to share one of the projects that's kept me busy over the last few months - moving from Seattle to London for a new role at AWS!

Over the past two years, I've learned the basics of Python and JavaScript in order to develop web applications in my free time.

For deploying my applications, I have a CI/CD pipeline that uses the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), GitHub, and CircleCI.

Update, Nov. 2020: Since writing this post, AWS released a new feature that allows you to export data directly from DynamoDB to S3.

I joined James Beswick on Serverless Coffee Break for a quick chat about my serverless development journey.

I recently migrated a few core components of my daily Chinese vocab app - including contact lists, subscribe/unsubscribe API, and email sending functionality - from SendGrid to a custom built backend that uses DynamoDB, SES, Lambda, and API Gateway.

In my daily Chinese vocab app, I built the ability for users to review past daily words by adding a database.

I built a website, mtg.emshea.com, that lets you search for Magic: The Gathering cards.

Passing the Associate Certified Solutions Architect (CSA) exam was one of the top recommendations I received on how to get more technical depth with AWS services, along with getting hands-on experience.

I built a web app for Chinese language learners to receive daily vocab words, Haohaotiantian.com.