Until recently, I was skeptical about the AWS CDK. I believe in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), but with the “code” being YAML. But after using CDK in real projects, the amount of heavy lifting it does and the vast reduction of a boilerplate code changed my view.
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Things I Found Interesting
Things I Found Interesting #5
After some time, I accumulated enough articles to share. They are about Cloud, Tech, Programming, and Work, and also include two Games, a petition, and a survey.
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AWS
Decision Tree: choose the right AWS messaging service
Have you ever been stuck deciding between SQS, SNS, Kinesis Streams, and EventBridge? Struggled to pick the right one for your use case? If the answer is “yes”, I’ve got you covered with a simple decision tree to help you make the right decision.
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AWS
Personal backup to Amazon S3 – cheap and easy
In need to backup my personal files in the cloud, I wrote a script that archives the data into the Amazon S3 bucket. After some fine-tuning and solving a bunch of edge-cases, it’s limited mainly by the disk read and my internet upload speed. And it costs me only $3.70 per TiB per month.
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6 Common Pitfalls of AWS Lambda with Kinesis Trigger
The simplicity of setting up a Kinesis trigger for a Lambda function may be deceptive. There are pitfalls that can cause problems we will spot only later, in the production environment. I learned about some of them the hard way, so let’s say I speak from the experience.
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Things I Found Interesting
Things I Found Interesting #4
Two articles about the Blockchain on today’s list. Both are not in favor, I’m afraid. Apart from this, some Tools, Work thoughts and advice, and again an article so weird I couldn’t categorize it.
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AWS
Headless CMS with Gatsby on AWS for $0.00 per month
Can you have a website with a CMS on AWS and not pay just for its existence? I looked at Amazon Lightsail, headless WordPress, and Webiny CMS but found none of those suitable. So I choose Prismic – a SaaS headless CMS, and Gatsby to create the site. Yes, I needed to make a pipeline to build my website after content changes. But when I did it, I got a website with CMS hosted at no cost.
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AWS
Choosing between SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge
AWS can overwhelm with the number of services. Especially if multiple services seem to do a very similar job. Let’s look at the cloud-native AWS messaging services – the SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge. What are the differences and when to use which one?
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Things I Found Interesting
Things I Found Interesting #3
Here we are again, with selected content from all over the internet about Tools, Tech, Cloud, Programming, Work, and a single article I couldn’t categorize. Probably because I’m still in shock after reading it.
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Uncategorized
Don’t help others (immediately)
I know my coworkers and teammates are reading this, and probably my boss as well. But let’s risk it.
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