Brian FoodyBookworms in leadership roles are fucking up your techThe main tech problem in most organisations?Sep 18Sep 18
Brian FoodyinOrganic EngineeringBrazilian Jiu Jitsu and the art of dynamic problem solvingLately I’ve been gleaning some fascinating insights about the art of problem solving from an unlikely class form — on the BJJ mat .Oct 11, 2022Oct 11, 2022
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoScheduling post deployment actions as part of a CloudFormation deployCI Pipelines are great but CI pipelines are also vulnerable to breaking like everything else in tech.Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoInfini-loop with the AWS SDK and the importance of Lambda idempotencyA short story today.Nov 25, 2021Nov 25, 2021
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoAutomated verification of SNS publishing with ngrok tunnels.Yesterday I was writing an integration test to verify that an SNS broadcast topic I was leveraging in front of a DynamoDB stream was being…Jul 9, 2021Jul 9, 2021
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoNot everything is as it seems with AWS FargateA story of being foiled by AWS Fargate in production and how we recovered.May 6, 20216May 6, 20216
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoThings I used to do when I had a development environment, Part 1.Deploy CloudFormation to development and check if it created what I expected.Oct 24, 2020Oct 24, 2020
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoKnow when to open the boxI’ve added a new principle to the way I work as a solutions architect that I thought I would share.Aug 30, 2020Aug 30, 2020
Brian FoodyinLambda Lego“Day One” Cloud Native OrganisationsHere I propose a cloud native architecture that facilitates a dynamic culture of innovation and experimentation within any organisation.Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020
Brian FoodyinLambda LegoA vital AWS gotcha to be aware of when launching a product.Here’s a tricky scenario that will test even the most seasoned AWS veteran’s skills. Even all with those 11 certs ;-)Jun 28, 2020Jun 28, 2020