Build without limits - You’ve built and deployed your first app on Amazon CodeCatalyst – great! But now your users are hungry for technical details and you need a docs page, stat. Join this session …

After two years of little to no travel, it picked back up in a big way for 2022. My daughter, Emily, has become a huge fan Dr Martens shoes during the pandemic. She owns four pairs. So I have started …

BX1 - Welcome and Kickoff - My second major update to the AMER team as tech lead, focusing on our progress and direction for the second half of 2022. Event Photos The Builder experience and Cloud …

The Builder Experience (BEX) community is seeking opportunities to collaborate with other communityes and Amazonians in general. We all spend too much time working in isolation and duplicating …

Build and Host React Web Application with GraphQL on AWS Workshop - Modern web applications are developed using JavaScript web frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, Next.js and Nuxt.js. GraphQL has …

FWM201 - Visually build extensible, full-stack apps faster with AWS Amplify - AWS Amplify lets frontend and full-stack web and mobile developers quickly build feature-rich apps on AWS with the …

BX1 - 2022 H1 Offsite Welcome and Kickoff – General update on the community health I did this one from my hotel room as I had COVID, but I did get out for a little fun after quarentine. After …

BX1 - 2022 H1 Offsite Welcome and Kickoff - General update on the community health My first update for the AMER team after taking the tech lead role. Event Photos The presentation room setup for the …

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Accelerate frontend web and mobile development with AWS Amplify - User-facing web and mobile applications are the primary touchpoint between organizations and their customers. To meet the ever-rising …

Best practices for continuous testing and observability – In this session, discover how to improve the resiliency of your applications through continuous resilience testing. Learn best …

I have a few Raspberry Pis around the house doing various tasks and wanted to automate Docker image builds using AWS CodeBuild. I assumed I could build on the Graviton ARM instances and run on the Pi. …

RSQL is a command-line client for Redshift. Unlike the psql command-line, RSQL has control flow commands (IF, ELSE, GOTO, etc.) that are useful for ETL jobs. I want to run RSQL in a Fargate container …

Implementing release management strategies for CI/CD Pipelines Workshop – This workshop will guide you through building CI/CD Pipelines with release management best practices, including …

AWS Amplify is a framework to accelerate web and mobile application development. I needed to build an API that would return a binary object. Specifically, it allows me to download a PDF file. I could …

I published a post this summer with a few simple demo applications I use when configuring AWS infrastructure. I needed something similar for a serverless application on AWS. In other words, a Lambda …

Every Halloween my kids and I build some kind of decoration to scare everyone. The past few years we have been evolving a pneumatic wolf head that pops up and scares you. Then, it takes a picture of …

AWS Directory Services allows you to join AWS resources to Microsoft Active Directory. This includes Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon FSx, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Appstream 2.0, …

I need to run a load test against Redshift. However, rather than repeatedly running a few sample queries, I want to replay all queries from the audit log over a period of time. I had never tried to do …

When doing a customer demo, I often need a simple app. Generally I am discussing the infrastructure – Elastic Load Balancer, API Gateway, etc – and the application is unimportant. I have …

I have been working on multi-tenant OpenSearch (a.k.a. Open Distro for ElasticSearch) project. This article (https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-multi-tenancy) (from 2015) outlines a few isolation …

When moving from SQL Server to PostgreSQL a common issue is case sensitivity. PostgreSQL 12 adds support for nondeterministic collations. These are my notes from testing various scenarios in Aurora. …

In this final post I’ll list a few additional optimizations for reducing the first invocation times. See part one and two for more details. Burst CPU According to this video Lambda functions get …

Enterprise Analytics workshop - Webinar on moving a data warehouse from SQL Server to Redshift using Database Migration Services (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). …