Writing all about AWS related things, as well as general tech and life stuff.

My longer-form thoughts primarily focused on AWS, with a sprinkling of other stuff for good measure, collected in chronological order.

re:Invent 2023 Session Guide

My opinionated view on which are the best sessions to attend at re:Invent 2023.

Introduction

Making EC2 architectures resilient

An introductory post to a series of articles about making EC2 architectures more resilient.

Intro to EventBridge Scheduler

A quick look at one of the newest services for event-driven architectures, EventBridge Scheduler.

2022 in review

A look back at 2022 and what's to come in 2023.

Moving to functionless Step Functions

Step Functions can do almost anything by invoking a Lambda function and running some Python code, but did you know that the workflow itself can do a lot without ever touching Lambda? Find out how.

re:Invent 2022 Session Guide

My opinionated view on which are the best sessions to attend at re:Invent 2022.

AWS SAM Serverless Connectors

A quick look at a new feature available within AWS SAM templates, designed to ease the pains of manually creating IAM policies.

A first peek at Lambda Powertools

We'll look at my five favourite features of Lambda Powertools and how they can be used day-to-day to make development more efficient. Deliberately not going into super detail on how to set up each of these features - the documentation is very, very good and there's no need for me to repeat it all!

2020 and 2021 in review

A look back at the years of 2020 and 2021 and what's to come in 2022.

2019 Year in Review

A look back at the year of 2019 and what's to come in 2020.