Dangers of Console-Driven Development
What is Console Driven Development (CDD)? AWS offers the ability to login to a web UI dashboard. In this dashboard, you can add, edit, and deploy various cloud resources. When I was first getting started with AWS, this is where I began for two reasons: It seemed the easiest way…
Computer Science for Everyone - Queues
Motivations TL;DR. I come from a non-traditional background and never knew basic computer science concepts before getting into the industry. As I interviewed for software engineering roles, I found this to be a blocker at some companies. So, I’ve…
Lambda Layer Update
Background Earlier this year, I did a walk through demo on how to use lambda layers with NodeJS. We build a helper function that takes in a string and returns the string backwards. Now that AWS SAM and the SAM CLI has support for building layers, it’s now easier to get this setup…
Building My Own Jamstack
The trend of the frontend and backend coming closer together is continuing and even has a name now…the Jam stack. Last year, I discussed my excitment about the backend and frontend slowly merging closer together and did a walk through on how to deploy a JavaScript based frontend…