Using GitHub Actions to Build a Self Updating README
The Project Idea A few months ago, Github enabled the ability to add a README section to your profile in addition to the pinned repositories. Personally, I find this pretty exciting. I’m sure many other software engineers can relate that we have some throw away projects and…
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…