Getting started resources for careers in Tech

The tech industry is a complex beast to navigate especially if you’re new to computer science. I put together this guide for anyone looking to jump into the various career...

Triggering builds on-demand with AWS Amplify Hosting

In this post we’ll explore an alternative way to set up continuous delivery for our full stack application. Out of the box AWS Amplify provides us with a fully integrated...

Five Pieces of Advice for Interns

Every year, Amazon provides opportunities for hundreds of students to work at AWS. For these students it’s often intimidating and nerve wracking to begin with. For me on the other...

A Guide to Understanding Limits for Distributed Applications

Operating a service on the AWS platform can sometimes seem daunting. There seem to be so many moving parts. For example, regions, logs, hosts and more. In spite of the...

Managing Custom Resources with CloudFormation

One of the core tenets of building applications in the cloud is infrastructure as code. The ability to script and automate the creation of cloud resources increases productivity.