Erik Lundevall Zara articles - 36 total
Quick blog set-up with Quarto and Fly.io
This is a quick tip to get started to set up your own blog website, similar to my blog website...
An opinionated AWS CDK project template for Python
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a nice framework to use if you build infrastructure for AWS....
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 8
In this article, we are going to wrap up this article series on using AWS CDK for managing...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 7
In this article, we are going to expand on the service in ECS we have already defined in part 6 and...
Infrastructure-as-code - where is the customer obsession, AWS?
AWS has a problem with its handling of customers’ adoption of infrastructure as code. This applies to...
How to set up ad hoc (developer) environments
Have you had a task to fix a supposedly simple thing in a project, a code or configuration change,...
Take a cue to supercharge your configurations
Do you have a love/hate relationship with YAML or JSON for configurations? Are your configurations...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 6
In this article, we are continuing with building our AWS infrastructure, which is a container-based...
How to migrate from CloudFormation to AWS CDK - part 1
Have you, at least partially, adopted AWS CloudFormation to have better management of your Cloud...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 5
Now it is time to build a service, running in Elastic Container Service (ECS)! In part 4 of our...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 4
It is now time to create an infrastructure in AWS to run container-based solutions! We will use the...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 3
Refine the EC2 deployment In the previous article, we performed a basic set pf an EC2...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 2
If you have not read part 1 in this series of articles, you may want to have a look at that first. ,...
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 1
Do you want your Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure to be resilient and consistent? Do...
7 Ways to Implement Infrastructure As Code on AWS
It feels daunting, does it not? Infrastructure-as-code promises to provide consistent, reliable,...
How to Create Awesome Repeatable Project Setups for AWS CDK
Are you excited about using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to define infrastructure-as-code? Do...
How to simplify project setup with Projen - project setup as code
Whenever you start a new software project and set up a repository for it, what do you do? Run a...
How to detect messed up CloudFormation resources - part 2
In part 1 we introduced an AWS CloudFormation feature called Drift Detection, with which we can...
How to detect messed up CloudFormation resources - part 1
If you use the principles of infrastructure as code to provision your cloud infrastructure, you get...
How to avoid unexpected AWS costs
Have you experimented with some new and interesting AWS service and their features, learned a few...
Is AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) right for you?
If you are looking to automate your AWS infrastructure provisioning, you may have heard of AWS Cloud...
100+ free online AWS workshops
If you are working with AWS or dabbled with the AWS services, you have most likely dived into the AWS...
A few videos that may expand or inspire your (developer) mind
Here are a few presentations that may perhaps inspire and expand your views and insights around softw...
R - the Javascript of data science
After having used R in a side project for a couple of months, this is part reflections and part intro...
AWS Re:Invent is kind of stupid
AWS Re:Invent is Amazon Web Services big conference event, which they used to run late every year in...
Certifications - worth it or waste?
In many areas of the IT industry, there are a lot of certifications to obtain. Various tools, platfo...
Does your development workflow spark joy? How and why?
You can find many comparisons and lists about what may be the most popular programming language, fram...
A systematic approach for documentation
Documentation - sometimes dreaded by those who need to write it and sometimes very desired by those w...
Exploring the cloud - the free cloud
A number of the larger cloud providers provide parts of their service for free, have limited free tri...
Sustainability in the cloud
To what extent does running your IT solutions in the cloud affect the environment and climate...