Blogs

Migrating to Amazon Linux 2

I run all my EC2 workloads on Amazon Linux. It comes with a superb AWS ...

Migrating CodePipeline to GitHub Actions to improve performance

Recently, we have become increasingly dissatisfied with the time our AWS CodePipeline pipeline takes to ...

Messaging on AWS

Previously, I compared all database options offered by AWS for you. In this post, I ...

Meet us at re:Invent (Update)

Michael and I are looking forward to attending re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas. The most ...

Meet me at AWS re:Invent and have breakfast with me

If you attend this year’s AWS re:Invent, this blog post is for you!

Mastodon on AWS: Host your own instance

While Twitter seems to be in chaos, the free and decentralized alternative, Mastodon, is rising. ...

marbot, our submission to the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition

Three things Michael and I love to do most: prototyping innovative products, playing around with ...

Managing application secrets: SSM Parameter Store vs. Secrets Manager

Many applications interact with external or internal systems like databases or REST APIs. When your ...

Manage AWS EC2 SSH access with IAM

AWS can deploy one EC2 Key Pair to your EC2 instance. But this approach has ...

Maintaining an Open Source library of production-ready CloudFormation templates

CloudFormation is the standard to provision AWS resources. But developing a template is a lot ...