I met Todd Albert, the founder of Boca Code at an AWS networking event hosted by CloudHesive. He got a kick out of the fact that I was a plumber before I got into IT, so he invited me to speak to the 9th cohort of the Boca Code Developer Bootcamp
I found the following package.json scripts very convenient when managing a complex CDK app. The key is the -- operator, which allows us to append additional parameters.
I recently converted a large CDK app to use CDK Pipelines. I LOVE how quickly it was to get working but it generated a UGLY and SLOW pipeline.
I got my AWS Data Analytics Specialty! I already had a lot of experience with Kinesis, Athena, and RedShift but there is A LOT of material in this exam. I highly recommend practice exams by Stephane M
To make prebuilt SPA installers with CDK I like to keep environment configuration outside of the minified code via a config.json file. This allows me to build the app once and move it between environments and stages.
Some AWS customers don’t use the CLI, and will not grant an external contractor CLI access. Trying to get access is a waste of time and resources. Do not fear, there is a solution!
I am now an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional!
AWS Athena provides SQL queries over S3 data. The service depends on S3, Glue, and Athena itself so getting permissions set up can be tricky. Here is what worked for me.
I struggled WAY too long trying to sort out the permissions for EFS. Turns out, there are 2 layers. The IAM role, and the Posix permissions. Both throw a similar-looking access denied. Finally!
I recently came across a weird error in a private package CDK deployment: {dynamo table name} already exists in stack {current stack arn} Upon further investigation it turned out t