Adding Assets to CDK Staging Bucket
Today I discovered that you can deploy arbitrary files to the CDK staging bucket with a human-readable file name! This feature is awesome if you are pre-synthing CDK apps to CloudFormation Templates.
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My First Sky Dive
I am afraid of heights so I never thought I would do it. My wife never thought I would do it. Yet somehow I did it.
Speaking at Boca Code Bootcamp
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
CDK package.json Scripts
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.
Speed up CDK Pipelines Deployment
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.
AWS Certified - Data Analytics Specialty
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
Write config.json to S3 with AWS CDK
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.
Synth CDK app to Custom Bucket
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!
AWS Certified - DevOps Professional
I am now an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional!
AWS Athena SAM Policies
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.