Are You Paying Attention?
Every time I go out in public, I’ve noticed a trend. People are on their phones almost everywhere I look. We hike to a beautiful waterfall, only to find a crowd of people standing there recording it on their phones for whatever social media site is popular. I go to a live show…
Upgrading to CDK v2 for Typescript
As of re:Invent 2021, CDK v2 is now generally available. 🎉 This post includes a brief walkthrough on upgrading a project from v1 -> v2 as well as some personal opinions. I’ll be using this notes app that we build previously to demo. If you want to skip ahead, the finished source…
My Top Three AWS re:Invent 2021 Announcements
Disclaimer that this post contains my individual opinions and yours might differ. Let’s get started! 1. SQS Partial Batch Retries in Lambda What this means This feature was announced during pre:Invent, but I think it still counts. Before, if…
On Home and Remote Work
I spent the first 22 years of my life in a part of the United States that many would call “flyover country.” To most people this is an insignificant small town that peaked in the 1950s. As my father likes to say “This town was so much better…