I have been doing a ton of livestreams and video podcasts this year. I prefer to present at a standing desk and my office is not well set up for this. I have been using the bar in the basement, but it …

I have been doing a talk about Agentic coding at Amazon. Below are a few links to additional Information. I’ll add more as the talk evolves. Blog Posts Quantifying the Impact of Developer …

I was talking to Jeff Barr last week and he mentioned his Magic Mirror project from a couple of years ago. I have been working on a goal tracker workflow in Obsidian (more on that soon) and thought …

I launched an internal podcast this year for community enablement. A month in, the format has been a great for sharing knowledge across the organization. There are several benefits that made this …

The Kiro CLI is adding so many awesome features that it can be hard to keep track of them all. So I created this cheat sheet and hope others will find it useful. I’ll update it as new features …

My son bought me this set of 3D printing accessories for Christmas. We have had a 3D printer for a few years but have only printed trinkets we downloaded. We have never printed anything custom that we …

I have meaning to update my profile pictures for a few years now. The old one was nearly 20 years old and look a lot different. At least my hair is a lot greyer. Of course, I am never happy with a …

NOTE: This issue was resolved on May 17th 2024. There is an issue with the sign-in flow in the v1.4 of the Amazon Q Developer extension release last night. This only impacts Code Server used in the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I’m abandoning the multi-cloud blog hosting model that I was using in favor of AWS Amplify to simplify TLS configuration. But I thought I should document the old approach a little further in …

In part one, I looked at what happens the first time an ASP.NET application is invoked in Lambda. When we left off, we had a roughly 3 second initial response time. In this post I’ll focus on …

The ability to host an ASP.NET project in AWS Lambda is a great way to get started with serverless. However, cold starts can result in a slow first invocation of the ASP.NET function. In this post …

In the post, I will show you how to build a Linux container in Visual Studio running on a EC2 Windows Instance. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio allows you to deploy your project to Elastic Container …