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 …
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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 …
A client emailed me a while back and asked what advice I’d give to someone just starting out on their career. As I began to write my reply, I realised that everything that popped to my mind was generic recitals that you can find after 10s of googling. “Be curious” “Work hard” “Ask lots of …
A few of you have asked me whether I was on Patreon and how you can support me in my work. And for a long time, I couldn’t think of interesting perks to offer you in return. But now that I’m spending a good part of my time as an independent consultant, I am much …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Let’s work together in 2020 Are you still on the fence about serverless and need strategic guidance on how best to safely introduce serverless to your organization and reap its benefits? Are your engineers lacking experiences with AWS and serverless and you need help upskilling the teams? Or maybe …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Let’s welcome back Blue Matador as this month’s sponsor! Blue Matador is monitoring alert automation for AWS and Kubernetes environments. Our proactive alerts take the time and toil out of monitoring. Trying to understand baselines and thresholds, and configuring alerts, especially in black boxes like Lambda and K8s, requires …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! I’ve been busy since the last time we were here, and I have lots of cool updates to share with you. New blog posts How to use the power of CloudFormation custom resources for great good. In this post, I described an approach for invoking a Lambda function as …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update :-) Let’s welcome Snap.hr as this month’s sponsor! Snap.hr is a transparent job hunting platform built for developers by developers. On Snap.hr, 3rd party recruiters are banned, and companies are always up front about the role and salary. Snap puts developers in the driving seat, so you never feel hassled …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update :-) New posts Getting the most out of CloudWatch Logs. In this post, I took a deep dive into the CloudWatch Logs service, looking at how it works, its features (including metric filters and CloudWatch Logs Insights) as well as limitations. How to do blue-green deployment for Step Functions. …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update :-) Let’s welcome Blue Matador as this month’s sponsor! Blue Matador is monitoring alert automation for AWS and Kubernetes environments. Our proactive alerts take the time and toil out of monitoring. Trying to understand baselines and thresholds, and configuring alerts, especially in black boxes like Lambda and K8s, requires …
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