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 -...
8 months ago • 1 min read
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...
12 months ago • 2 min read
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...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Be a Better Dev August 2nd, 2023 AWS News Updates New charges for Public IP Usage Effective February 1, 2024 there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not. This translates to approximately $3.60 per month or $43 per year of extra charges to your account, PER IP ADDRESS. AWS claims that this new change is due to IPv4 address being an "increasingly scarce resource" and is intended to encourage you to be "a bit more frugal"...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Be a Better Dev July 18, 2023 Prime Video Serverless to Monolith Article Causes Internet Backlash By now, most of you may have heard about the Prime Video article outlining an internal Amazon team that ditched a serverless architecture for a "monolith". Monolith lovers took out the pitchforks and spouted "told ya so" far and wide across the twittersphere and reddit. Unfortunately, the internet backlash this article received was out of place and largely based on misguided interpretations of...
about 1 year ago • 7 min read
Be a Better Dev June 24th, 2023 Hey there! I've had a bunch of newsletter subscribers - many that are new to AWS and getting a handle on navigating the cloud. I figured it's a good time to share my Day 1 checklist for new AWS accounts. After all... Tip # 1 - Ditch the Root Account The infamous root account is the most dangerous account a hacker can get their hands on. It's the default user you get access to when you initially create your AWS account and log in using your email address. Any...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
Be a Better Dev May 30th, 2023 Hi all, I wanted to briefly share a new course that I'm working on along with a recap of some of my more popular recent videos this past Spring. In terms of the course, I've recently began working on a Step Functions masterclass. Step Functions are getting more and more popular as developers look to coordinate actions between distributed systems while ensuring reliability. Even personally, I've seen them crop up at work more and more including in a project I'm...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Be a Better Dev March 19th, 2023 Hey there folks, I'm so happy to announce that my brand new course, The AWS Learning Accelerator has just been published and is now available. I've been working on this course for months after realizing so many folks lack the confidence or experience to leverage AWS to solve real life problems. This is a project focused course where I walk you through designing, setting up, and implementing a completely serverless end to end application. You'll learn about and...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Be a Better Dev - #002 February 12th, 2023 Welcome, again! Hello there. Here I am again back in your inbox with Episode #002 of the Be a Better Dev Newsletter. This week, I decided it's time to share a course I've been secretly working on in the past few months. The content is really starting to come together and I'm excited to share it with this group. Afterwards, I'll give you a quick recap of videos published on my channel in the past two weeks. So lets go! -Daniel Upcoming Course - AWS...
over 1 year ago • 4 min read
