blog.kdgregory.com

Today I got an email from AWS Health about my personal account: Our records indicate that one or more applications in this account made AWS API calls using the AWS SDK for Java 1.x within the last 16 days.

It's been a little over a year since I bought a CX-70.

This is the third time that I'm writing about this topic.

AWS's recent fait accompli deprecation of CodeCommit and six other services was a shock to me.* Not because CodeCommit was a particularly good product — it wasn't — but because it could have been one with some investment.

AWS just announced a natural language query generator for CloudTrail Lake.

I recently made a minor change to my logging library.

I have a “tax PC”: an old HP running Windows 10, that spends ten months of the year in a closet, and two months hooked up to a segment of my home network where it's unlikely to be attacked by the various network-attached devices living in my house.

Tip 26: “select” isn't broken.

Several years ago I wrote about connecting CloudWatch Logs into into a logging pipeline built on Kinesis Streams and Kinesis Firehose.

Here in Philadelphia, the last day of 2022 was rainy and foggy; a day to stay inside.

I just made what I hope is the last release of my log4j-aws-appenders library.

Chasing a bug can be one of the most frustrating parts of software development.

The mapped diagnostic context is an under-appreciated feature of logging libraries.

A week ago, a lot of Java application developers learned that their applications harbored a severe vulnerability, courtesy of the Log4J 2.x logging framework.

It's back.

You don't have a Feedback link on your site, but it seems that Amazon keeps close tabs on the Blogosphere, so hopefully this reaches you.

A few months ago I wrote a post about startup times of AWS Lambdas written in Java.

A few years ago I wrote a post calling out the poor performance of Amazon's Elastic File System (EFS) when used as the working directory for a software build.

Update, 2024-01-24 Well, I was wrong: AWS is end-of-lifing the v1 SDK.

A few weeks ago I answered a Stack Overflow question about the poor performance of Java Lambdas.

Modules are the primary mechanism for reusability in Terraform.

When I want to package a Java application in a single JAR with all of its dependencies, I normally turn to Maven’s Shade plugin.

In the beginning there was System.out.println().

I like to provide a nice, clean history in my pull requests.

It's generally a bad idea to click on links in strange websites, but this one is key to this post.