Welcome to another weekly update! Apologies for the radio silence the last few weeks. A combination of vacation, work and re:invent has really messed up my posting schedule! Hopefully, I’m now back to my usual flow. First of all, I want to give a shout out to my Patreon supporters: Andre Silva, Boseok In, Joe … Weekly update 37 Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-2-1 mentoring. Hi, my name is Yan Cui. I’m an AWS Serverle[...]

The number of Google search results for the phrase "choosing the first programming language" at the time of writing is 15,800. This illustrates just how debated the issue of choosing the first programming language is. In this blog post, I will not actually try to answer the question posed in the title of the post. I will not discuss what language we should teach as the first one. Instead, I will look at a more interesting question. I will investigate the arguments that are used in favour of or against part[...]

I have met many engineers whose career progression seemingly stops at “senior engineer”. It happens for many reasons: They found their sweet spot. Many engineers simply don’t want to be promoted. They love the project they are working on and enjoys being the subject matter expert in their domain. All they want is more of … How to break the “senior engineer” career ceiling Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-2-1 mentoring. [...]

Disclaimer: this is a long list, you don’t need to tick every box to go-live. Think of them as a ladder, the more critical a system the higher you should try and climb. Observability Enable detailed monitoring to get per-method metrics (e.g. latency for GET /index). Without this, CloudWatch only reports aggregated metrics for all … Check-list for going live with API Gateway and Lambda Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-2-1 m[...]

Hello, welcome to another weekly update! I’m trying out a new format to do this via video, hope you enjoy it :-) Links Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theburningmonk Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me New posts The why, when, how of API Gateway service proxies Where does SLS plugin stops and platform starts My advice to junior developers Open source updates … Weekly update 36 Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack chann[...]