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AWS announced multi-attribute composite keys for DynamoDB global secondary indexes on November 19th.

AWS just released flat-rate plans for CloudFront and related services, wrapping together WAF, Route53, CloudFront Function, logging, and more.

I completely missed that AWS added pull through cache rules for private ECR (Elastic Container Repository) repositories earlier this year.

Last month, I tried out using Bun as a custom JavaScript Lambda runtime and was surprised by the performance difference between Bun and AWS's managed Node.js runtime.

I've previously tried out Lambda functions with a custom runtime using Deno, and it had great security and convenience benefits.

Have you ever been on a team where it seemed like it took forever to get anything done?

There's been an explosion of tools claiming to make your job easier and touting GenAI, and I'm sure many of them can be very helpful.

Recently AWS’s Fauly Injection Service (FIS) added support for AWS Lambda, maybe it’s the other way around, but either way, they now work together.

Ever since the first release of web components I’ve been interested in them.

The other day, I took and passed the new AWS Certified AI Practitioner beta exam.

I’ve used Kubernetes here and there, but nothing too in depth.

I recently spoke with Johannes Koch, an AWS Hero, on his YouTube channel about Amazon CodeCatalyst.

The other week, I was helping a client work through an interesting challenge.

In my last post, I raised some concerns with Amazon CodeCatalyst and how it might be received in an enterprise environment, especially the single sign-on capabilities.

I’m very interested in recent advancements in cloud-hosted development environments.

I spoke at Indy.Code() in Indianapolis, Indiana, earlier this month.

Deno is an alternative JavaScript runtime that was released back in 2020.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a widely adopted cloud computing platform offering diverse services to businesses and individuals.

I recently started consolidating the DNS for all the domains I own to AWS Route 53.

Across all my experience with microservices, coupling has been the single most significant cause of headaches.

Do you remember the AWS outage in December 2021?

Did you know AWS has a library of guides, strategies, and patterns that have been reviewed and can help in a variety of situations?

I recently tried out Plausible as an alternative to running my own Countly.

This past week AWS announced Lambda Function URLs, public endpoints you can enable for Lambda functions to allow them to be invoked.

I’ve noticed people trying to return HTTP status codes from AWS Lambda functions when those functions are set up to receive events from SQS.

A coworker of mine recently was having issues with calling an AWS API Gateway he had deployed.

Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals Remember those super cool videos from Spotify on how they set up their agile teams?

My favourite Git commit It’s worth it to put some effort into git commit messages, especially when the change is truly consequential.

All Pluralsight Content is Free in April Pluralsight has opened up its content for free in April.

Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture An internal development group was tasked with building an application that would touch a wide variety of data sources across the entire business.

GraphQL In Action: Introduction GraphQL has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, and some of that for good reason.

Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated The war between open source and Amazon/Insert Large Cloud Corporation Here is going to continue for a while.

Best Practices for Secondary Indexes with DynamoDB - CloudProse This is an excellent overview of AWS DynamoDB Secondary Index best practices.

Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta If you work with GitHub and are frequently working in your terminal you may want to take a look at the GitHub CLI tool that is now in beta.

Conference Talk Proposal Examples Speaking at conferences is a great way to help your career, it gets your name out there and helps you learn public speaking.

Clean Code concepts adapted for JavaScript Every example I can remember in Clean Code was in Java.

No, dynamic type systems are not inherently more open There is a battle between static and dynamic typing in the programming world, and the battle will likely always be there so long as humans write code.

From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean’s tale of tech debt Tech debt can be a nasty thing, but when the scale of your application or infrastructure keeps growing that tech debt can turn into a many-headed hydra.

Deming’s Rules of Management and Agile Methods This article lists out W.

Beware SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise), an Unholy Incarnation of Darkness I’ve recently started on a project that is using SAFe, so this was an especially interesting article for me to read.

It’s been another one-article kind of week.

I started a new project this week so it’s been long and I’ve been busy.

The Relationship Between Modularity and Polymorphism How much of your Object-Oriented theory do you remember?

Announcing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable future for WebAssembly – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog Recently the Bytecode Alliance was formed with Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat as founding members.

Addressing Technical Debt Let’s talk about technical debt.

Technical Considerations to Help Scale Your Product It’s important to ensure you “right-size” your application.

How To Maximize Value at Tech Conferences (as an Introvert) Conferences can be nerve-wracking and draining for a lot of people.

Rules of Thumb for Software Engineering There are plenty of great sources for details on programming guidelines, but it takes a bit of time to get through them.

Don’t lead by example The title is a little misleading, it’s not that you shouldn’t lead by example.

Hacktoberfest presented by DigitalOcean and DEV Hacktoberfest is here!