For me, one of the biggest challenges of having a blog is “what to write about?”. Overthinking about writing kills any momentum before the habit even has a chance to form. That’s why I really liked Simon Willison’s post What to blog about. In his post, he mentions two categories of content that are easy to write and can help getting over the mental trap of thinking we have to write something new and unique: “Today I learned” and “Personal Projects” (he later added a third category “Things I found”). ...
Ephemeral environments
For the last few years, I’ve been building serverless projects in AWS, and testing these projects can sometimes be quite challenging. Our serverless applications often rely on a myriad of AWS services (SQS, DynamoDB, Step Functions, etc), making it difficult to ensure everything works as expected. However, one approach that has worked well for my team is leveraging ephemeral environments—temporary environments that are spun up, used for testing, and then destroyed. ...
Hello World
Yet another blog built with Hugo!