The Open CDK Guide
Publishing an open source CDK guide with an opionated set of tips and best practices for working with the CDK
Recent posts
A Tale of Two Buckets: Investigating Multi-Account IAM Issues in S3 and CloudFront
The story of a bad multi-account deployment and the ensuing investigation to find the truth. A tale of intrigue, identity and access.
CDK All The Things: A Whirlwind Tour
Ever wanted to provision AWS infrastructure with the expressivity of python, the type safety of java and the declarative nuance of CloudFormation?
No Reservations: A Definite Guide to EC2 Reserved Instances
EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) are probably the most effective way of reducing your AWS bill by as much as 75% but are underutilized because of perceived compl...
Building Scalable Serverless Applications on AWS
Slides to my talk on serverless, answering age old questions such as: Serverless, what is it? Why Care? How do you scale it?
My Podcasting Setup
My setup and process for podcasting
Benchmarking Lambda’s Idle Timeout Before A Cold Start
An investigation of how long a Lambda can idle before a cold start. Benchmarks includes Lambdas from 128MB all the way up to 3008MB across multiple regions.
Giving Third Parties Limited Access to your AWS Account
An exploration of various AWS managed read-only IAM policies. Understand what they do and how to apply them to your account the next time you have a third pa...
Luck and Chance
Looking back at my life, something that stands out like a garden gnome in a basketball lineup is that most of the significant moments of my life seemed to ha...
Why I Write
I enjoy the art of creation. Maybe enjoy is too light of a word for what I’m trying to describe. I feel compelled by. I have a need to. I cannot not create.