AWS Amplify Review
Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Recently, I’ve been playing around with AWS Amplify. Wanted to share some thoughts in case anyone is interested in exploring this ecosystem. Disclaimer that these are my opinions and experiences. You may have a different one. This is ok. Why Did I Do…
The Secret Lives of Failed SQS Messages
Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash A common pattern in serverless architecture is to have a queue before a function. This is great because you can create a second queue for all of the messages that failed in the function execution (or, if we want to put it in terms that don’t…
Automated React Frontend Deploys
As the frontend and backend are slowly merging closer together, more and more folks are writing full stack applications. While Serverless mostly is referring to the underlying infrastructure that tends to live a bit closer to the backend side, you can also use a serverless…
Rekognition - Facing My Artificial Intelligence Fears
Artificial intelligence (henceforth referred to as AI for the rest of this post) is becoming more and more prominent in our lives whether we realize it or not. This fact both excites and terrifies me as an individual. It is exciting because AI has the major potential to make all…