Be a Better Dev

So I got this comment on my last video and it genuinely stopped me in my tracks.

I’m going to start with something a bit controversial, and honestly, it’s probably something a lot of you don’t want to hear.

If you’re just getting started with AI, you’ve probably used it as a coding assistant, for answering questions, or for performing small, trivial tasks.

If you’re working with AWS, one of the key skills to master is monitoring and logging application activity.

On June 13th, 2023, customers using AWS Lambda abruptly started seeing increased error rates and higher than normal latencies.

If you’re still creating your AWS infrastructure by clicking around in the console or using annoying CloudFormation template files, then you should really consider using CDK.

AWS Web Application Firewall or WAF for short is an important service for any application that hosts publicly facing APIs.

A couple of weeks ago, an article was posted on medium describing how an empty S3 bucket ran up a massive AWS bill in less than two days.

I recently sat in on a demo for a new tool being developed by some engineer colleagues and noticed a troubling trend in how we choose infrastructure technologies.

Not long ago, reading through application logs was a simple process.