Unlike most of my stories, this one is basically all for me and storing a note to my future self. But I hope that this note helps you as well when you encounter the dreaded: Pre-existing state was found while migrating the previous “s3” backend to the newly configured “s3”…

Earlier this week, I walked into the office and started checking our daily logs. Everything looked fine except there were a few failed Lambda deploys to development overnight. Time to dig in. What came next was a realization of the dark side of using Lambdas heavily at a company that…

We believe in a strong CI/CD strategy and wanted to open-source our CircleCI orbs to help other teams improve on their deployment pipeline. At AirSwap, we believe strongly in solid CI/CD pipelines. It underpins our ability to quickly deploy code and makes a daily production release possible. In addition to…

AWS Access Key security is hard. So I fixed it. Here’s how. If you’ve ever worked with AWS, you know how difficult it is to create a credential rotation program. AWS will tell you it’s best practice to rotate keys “on a regular schedule.” And then the AWS Security Team…

Over the past 5 years, I’ve been a remote worker for teams around the world. I’ve traveled extensively as a Delta Skymiles Diamond member to 4 US states, 3 countries, and 3 continents for work. I’ve worked in coffee shops, airline lounges, trains, buses, co-working spaces, and my home office…

Inspired by a similar post from SpringRole, who shared their process to deploy production code, I wanted to share the result of AirSwap’s own extensive internal discussion about how to create and deploy stable features for Ethereum-driven applications. Blockchains are immutable and using them incurs costs, so testing is a…

On October 10th, 2017, we launched the AirSwap Token (AST). While many Ethereum-based token sales are driven entirely by smart contracts, we did things differently. AirSwap itself is an Ethereum-based decentralized global marketplace, and a token purchase could be a trade on the marketplace. …

I participated in the BattleForTheNet.com form submission to your representatives in Congress and sent a letter to Senator Sullivan. Today, I received this response to my letter. Thank you for contacting me regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2015 Open Internet Order. …

As developers, we’ve all been in meetings with the “business team” where someone from the operations side says they would like to test a certain configuration. All too often, that’s their code for “I’m not yet sure what I want this value to be and I never will be sure.”…