Dakota Lewallen articles - 49 total
Configuring CI/CD For Your CDK Application, With CDK
As your project gains traction, it will likely exceed what is reasonable for manual CLI deployments....
Managing My AWS Certified Status
Assessing where I stand As of writing this, I’ve managed to obtain the Cloud Practitioner...
Save Time and Money by Shifting HIPAA Compliance Checks Left with CDK-Nag
Originally published to: makingitup.substack.com With cdk-nag you can check your infrastructure...
Re:Invent Reflections
Last year, I wrote Up until last week (as of 12/3/23) I would say I’ve been something of an AI...
How to Migrate From CodeCommit
ICYMI AWS recently announced that they will no longer be onboarding new customers for a...
To Build or to Reuse? A CDK Question
Unless you are starting on a fresh application, the project you are working on will likely have...
Multi-region Deployments with CDK
IamFlowZ / multi-region-cdk-example ...
Three Tips for Writing CDK Tests
1. Use the assertions module Something of a no-brainer, but use the tools you’re given!...
Organize Your CDK lib Folder by Function Not Service
Don’t: Organize Your CDK lib Folder by Service When working with IaC tools, it's standard...
CDK Dependency Strategies
Originally posted to dakotalewallen.substack.com This topic has been in my backlog to write about...
Split Horizon DNS in AWS Made Easy!
Drum roll...
TIL: How to CDK Diff Your Entire App
Thanks to the internet, I learned how to diff all of the resources in a CDK project.
Prepping for ReInvent: Getting my Dev Associate Cert
Tracking my prep for ReInvent
How to Not Get Burnt by AWS Bills
Here is a quick rundown on how to use Billing Alerts in AWS to prevent unexpectedly large bills.
SSH-BM, An SSH bookmarking program
A quick rundown of my SSH bookmarking tool
My Software Logbook Process
A look back at the usage and usage patterns of my log book process
Should you use AWS X-Ray for all of your lambdas in AWS?
As the title states, do you typically use X-Ray in all of your lambdas? What reasoning do you...
Learning About Dynamo
The stuff I've learned about DynamoDB recently
Some thoughts on working with the CDK and serverless architecture in AWS
CDK is neat but is a bit of a mess
2 Ways to Improve your Node.js Application
Improve your Node.js application with this two simple changes.
What is the most tedious part of your day?
Let's talk about how are days could improve.
August 22nd Side Project Checkin
Come share what you're up to this weekend.
I'm Live on Twitch building a Discord bot!
Hi All! I'm going live over at Twitch working on a discord bot called HelpMeLFG. I'm...
What would you guys like to see me stream?
Hi all 👋 If you weren't aware, I stream on the weekends over at twitch. To kick things off I'm...
My first week with Plausible
I've detailed my expierence trying out a new analytics platform, plausible. Let me know what you think!
I'm live on twitch building a file sharing app!
Come watch me build stuff.
June 22nd Side Project Checkin
How's your project going?
I Rebuilt My Personal Site!
I Rebuilt My Personal Site! Come let me know what you think!
June 15th Side Project Check-in
Come share your side projects!
June 8th Side Project Check-in
Morning/afternoon everyone! I hope you all are getting a good start to your work week!...