Joe Stech articles - 12 total
Dyson Swarm: How I built a hard science fiction game with AWS services
The game concept I'm a huge science fiction fan -- so much so that I started and ran a...
Vendor lock-in when using AWS Graviton processors is no longer a real thing
We're entering a golden age of Arm-based processors. It used to be that when you decided to save 20+%...
A serverless Python app to send public domain gutenberg.org ebooks to your Kindle with one click!
I wrote a little serverless web app that does the following: Downloads a page from gutenberg.org...
Commit to your team's development conventions or get out
I'm not saying this for the good of your team, even though it will be good for your team. I'm telling...
Go fast and reduce risk: using CDK to deploy your serverless applications on AWS
There are a truly absurd number of ways to deploy applications on AWS. Corey Quinn wrote two separate...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas: Cloud Edition
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the cloud Every server was stirring, it was really...
Adding an existing custom Lambda Authorizer to API Gateway with CDK and Python
OK, this is an pretty niche one, but I had to write it up because it annoyed me so much figuring it...
Solving problems with API Gateway and the Python CDK
So you decided to use the Python flavor of CDK to build your API Gateway infrastructure. Great!...
How I built my ideal daily Python newsletter with AWS and Python
I'm a heavy Python user. I've basically used it to do my job every day for the last decade, so it's...
Notes from AWS re:Invent 2022: the Giant Magellan Telescope
Most of the sessions I attended at re:Invent this year were highly technical, but I also attended...
Notes from re:Invent 2022: a serverless/devops recap
This week was my first time attending re:Invent, and it was as intense as I had imagined! With 60k...
How to make a Docker build image for the Python flavor of AWS CDK, for people who don't like NPM
This is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way, but here was my initial thought process when I...