Articles
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Is the sky falling? Or, how to prepare for AWS outages.
Self-hosting or multi-cloud are knee-jerk reactions to every cloud outage. Start with multi-region, if you must!
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Companies and People to Avoid in Your Software Engineering Job Search
Software engineers, steer clear of Aura Frames and Canoe Intelligence!
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Realistic Testing: Shareable AWS Lambda Function Test Events
Use CloudFormation or Terraform infrastructure-as-code to provide "shareable" test events for realistic, not just local, testing of AWS Lambda functions...
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My Mom Changed Her Own SIM Card Yesterday
Seniors make great beta testers, and having a choice of telecommunication services saves money
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Reduce, Recycle, Realign: The AC Transit App Sucks!
When you try transit, do you find the official apps frustrating? This article examines a San Francisco Bay Area transit app that leaves you guessing where your bus stop is.
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Time-Wasting Interviews, but Did I Dodge a Ponzi Scheme?
If you're promised a call with a startup VP and you get a junior manager instead, hang up!
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Transit Agency Apps Suck!
When you want to try public transit, do you find the official apps frustrating? This article examines a San Francisco Bay Area transit app that has trouble finding the agency's own stations!
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Step Functions Are for Kids
Have you had great results with a technology that others made fun of? My latest blog post discusses Step Functions, a low-infrastructure, low-code, visual programming paradigm from AWS.
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Idempotence: Doing It More than Once
Basic Amazon Web Services commands handle repetition differently. This article suggests ways to assure consistent software designs and implementations across your own organization. You do not need to know programming or AWS.
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