Curiosity is the Skill You Should Hire, and Strive For

A resume or CV doesn’t usually tell you the full story. It also doesn’t give the right format for you to effectively tell your story. Why has this become the way that we review candidates or to try to become a potential candidate then? I’m a firm believer that the most important of all the … Read more

Using the Terraform Map Function

How many times have you had something you’re building in Terraform where you use dynamic counting or things that need you to map one value to another? One clear example I had very recently for my fully automated EKS lab using Terraform for AWS was the need to distribute my nodes across availability zones. How … Read more

Adding Custom Domains and SSL/TLS with AWS Amplify

Woohoo! You’ve spun up your first AWS Amplify app successfully thanks to the work we did in our first post. That was cool until you realized that now you have some funky domain name like ka8enrkjasdf8het.amplifyapps.com which is not super friendly (unless your business happens to be named ka8enrkjasdf8het LLC). Configuring a Custom Domain and … Read more

Setting up a Jekyll Website with AWS Amplify

One of the fun parts of living my life in technology is that I really enjoy building web sites for different things I’m working on. Ok, I have a few too many. The bigger challenge is that I have a few different types of sites that I’m building. Some are WordPress (which I use Kinsta … Read more