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Be a Better Dev February 18, 2024 In a recent video, I expressed my frustration with AWS's definition of "Serverless". The video seems to have resonated with the community, particularly folks' frustration with how AWS is throwing the term Serverless around all willy nilly. The recent announcements of "Serverless OpenSearch" and "Serverless Aurora" come to mind as not-so-serverless serverless offerrings. What are your thoughts? Separately, my recent course - AWS Step Functions Masterclass -...
Be a Better Dev October 21st, 2023 AWS is stepping up their security game by making Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) mandatory for users signing in to root accounts. The new feature is expected to be rolled out by mid 2024 with affected users being notified via e-mail channels. This is a welcome change that probably should have been implemented since day 1. As I've mentioned in previous newsletters and YouTube videos, the amount of users that suffer from inexplicable "hacks" to their AWS...
Be a Better Dev September 17th, 2023 The AWS Architecture Blog As many of you may know, I'm a huge fan of learning about how companies deploy and use AWS to solve their business problems. In our daily jobs, we typically only get exposure to our own problem domain and it's helpful to see how other companies leverage services that we previously may have never touched. In other words, learning through others exposes our blind spots and broadens our horizons. For many years, I've been making...