Blogs

Parental Leave (Michael)

Taking care of my family is the number one priority for me. Luckily, Andreas and ...

Parental Leave (Andreas)

This is the last thing on my checklist before I leave for nine months. Until ...

Painlessly create or update a CloudFormation stack in an idempotent way

When integrating CloudFormation into your CI/CD pipeline you are faced with the challenge of creating ...

Own your analytics data: Replacing Google Analytics with Amazon QuickSight

Making decisions based on data is compelling. Especially, when you wrestle with the most straightforward ...

Optional Parameter in CloudFormation

Sometimes you want a CloudFormation Parameter to be optional. Unfortunately a blank Parameter contains an ...

Optional DependsOn with CloudFormation: Metadata to the rescue

When working with AWS CloudFormation, sometimes it’s necessary to incorporate optional dependencies into your template. ...

On the way to sustainable open source projects

Open Source software is the heart of the modern world. Why do we love open ...

NoSQL on AWS: Document-Oriented Databases

A document-oriented database stores keys mapped to JSON documents. You can query all documents in ...

Next Generation Load Balancing: ALB with gRPC and HTTP/2

AWS announced an important update for the Application Load Balancer (ALB) in November 2020: Support ...

New Online Training – Navigating the AWS Management Console

I’m excited to announce that our new Pluralsight course was released: Navigating the AWS Management ...