The Serverless Mindset and Infrastructure as Code
Originally, I wanted to blog about my favorite re:Invent announcements. But as I started, I saw a higher level theme and decided to write on that instead. Disclaimer that this post contains my individual opinions and yours might differ. I welcome your polite/engaged feedback and…
EventBridge Emoji Event Patterns
Background The other day, I was answering some questions a coworker had about EventBridge. He then jokingly said “I wonder if I can use emojis for an event pattern because they are UTF-8.” After that conversation, I couldn’t stop thinking…
My Personal Blog Site's CI/CD
Goals In 2018, I set out to create this blog. Medium and other blogging platforms existed; however, I wanted to have more control and ownership of my content. To me, it’s fine to syndicate blog posts to other places for more reach, but I…
Career Reflections
Growing up, I was given advice from adults often. It was typically some variant of: Go to college Respect authority Work hard You’ll be rewarded Early in my career, I followed this advice and it didn’t work for me. I could write an entire book on…