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The Most Under-Appreciated AWS Service

I knew this was gonna be a tough ask: to identify the most under-appreciated AWS [https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-most-under-appreciated-aws-service/], and to expound why that is. Tough for a few reasons I

Keeping active

2023 2021 Total Active Days: 98 (up by 11 days) Total Time: 30 hours (up 1 hour) Total distance: 420km (up 120 hours) 2020 These are my Strava stats for 2020: Summary of

Reading List - Updated

I used to be a voracious reader through primary school and high school, but it kinda stopped somewhere during campus days. I have rekindled it recently, especially with the ability to read on-line

Whiteboarding remotely

Whiteboarding remotely

Like all of us in tech, we have all been working remotely since COVID-19 hit 9 months ago. I've got my home-office setup quite well: * Desktop and laptop setup with large screen [http:

Architecture, Cloud and Serverless

I had some follow-on thoughts after my post on Microservices: Distributed Data Patterns [http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/microservices-distributed-data-patterns/] that I wanted to share. I came across Jeremy Daly’s detailed article on