A recent tweet from Helen Anderson prompted me to think of a few things that I’ve done in the past when creating new AWS accounts for myself and others. So I’ve put together a list of five first steps — this is by no means an exhaustive list, but it…
A sizable chunk of time has passed since Part 2 of this series. In the months since my last post, I’ve started a new open source project (more to come later), travelled, and stood up a small, manageable data lake. I’d like to say that my delay in bringing you…
In Part 1 of this series, I shared my plan for rebuilding my personal website. Before I start thinking about changes to user interfaces or HTTP responses, I need to clean up the mess I created with my poorly designed data model. In this post, I’ll focus on my experience…
For a little over a year and a half, guillermoandraefisher.com has existed as a serverless application that is powered by a familiar blend of services: Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB. Things have changed significantly since I first deployed the index.html file — for me, and for some…
If you’re a PHP developer whose cloud provider of choice is AWS, chances are you’ve suffered through a bit of serverless FOMO due to AWS Lambda’s lack of support for PHP. But thanks to the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and Bref — both open source projects available on…
