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Uploading a photo from my phone worked, but publishing it still meant a full static rebuild. Moving photo metadata to DynamoDB and serving it from an API turned a four minute wait into a few seconds, and taught me a couple of lessons about EXIF data along the way.
GitHub Actions deploys were taking three to five minutes. The site was pre-rendering more than two thousand static pages, and most of them existed only to redirect. Here is how issue #90 cut the page count in half and got deploys under two minutes.
I wanted to post a photo without opening my laptop. The fix was a passcode-gated form, three Lambdas, and a pipeline that commits to GitHub and triggers the normal deploy. Here is how issue #71 became /upload.
Fathom showed plenty of signups but few confirmations. The problem turned out to be a mix of email authentication, misleading analytics, and UX friction. Here is how I diagnosed it and fixed it with Cursor and AI-DLC.
I’m up on a Monday morning ready to dive into this session. I watched the first 15 minutes of it live and have been meaning to go through it all. Super...
There's an incredible number of videos already on YouTube from this year's re:Invent. In fact, most were up within 24 hours following the live session. It sort...
I'm not at re:Invent this year. It's ok, I was able to go last year, and will attempt to attend next year. But, I am observing from afar, from the comfort of...
Lately I have been thinking about what's next for Chat-CLI. It started as a way for me to kick the tires on Amazon Bedrock, back when Bedrock was in public...
New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience...
AWS Weekly Roundup: multiple new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually Nov 25, 2024...
Return of The Frugal Architects https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/11/return-of-the-frugal-architect.html Dr. Vogels has just announced on his website...
AWS Fargate or AWS Lambda? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/decision-guides/latest/fargate-or-lambda/fargate-or-lambda.html There is a new and very useful decision...
AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it...
Introducing scaling to 0 capacity with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2...
Build a fast, secure, and cost-effective static website hosting solution using AWS S3 and CloudFront CDN.
Exploring modern serverless patterns using Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB to build scalable, cost-effective applications.
UPDATE: Package Size Limits via the AWS Console have been updated since the writing of this blog post. I've added the new limits in the parenthesis below. I...