Static sites are great but if you want to schedule something in the future, they leave something to be desired. — Good news! I’m going on my first vacation since before the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, my wife and I would travel every couple of months to somewhere new. It was great. But the pandemic happened, we had our second kid, and life just kinda… changed. My youngest daughter is…

The location of your serverless app matters more than you might think. You could add significant latency and cost if you don’t take it into consideration. — The serverless community talks about latency a lot. We talk about how service-to-service connections improve or decline over time. We talk about optimization strategies for Lambda. We debate over the best DynamoDB data modeling practices for performance.

You probably do a few things every day that could be automated. Get your time back by building quick serverless integrations to do them for you — I recently had an epiphany. I’ve been working with serverless for years but haven’t taken advantage of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been building enterprise-scale apps with it — so in that regard, I’d say I am taking advantage of it. …

Developer experience is a thankless part of the software. When it’s good, it’s good. When it’s bad… everybody talks about it and nobody uses it. — In May of 2022, I was invited to a customer summit for Postman to talk with industry leaders about APIs. While I was there I was asked to be on a panel to talk about developer experience (DX). I was a little taken aback because developer experience wasn’t something I…

I built a serverless app that asks ChatGPT to write workouts for me every day. I couldn’t be happier with the results. — I’m a bit of a fitness guy. In college, I worked at a running store. I built relationships with people in the fitness industry and got my toes wet with coaching. I trained people for years to build speed and endurance and helped them get comfortable with running. When I…

We often get caught up in the excitement of how fast serverless development is. But be careful not to move too fast. — Back in December, I got an opportunity to visit a race track and drive a Lamborghini Gallardo. The driver’s education class beforehand taught me what the markers were on the track, what to do when we needed to make a pass, and warned of the dangers of putting the pedal…

Learn how I built my tech career by pursuing my passion and what you can do to follow suit — Today is my last day at Tyler Technologies. I’ve been here for just about 11 years. 10 years, 8 months, 4 weeks, and 5 days to be exact. I’ve built my entire professional career at this job. And I’ve loved every second of it. I was hired one month before…

Most of us think all we need to do is push logs to an APM vendor to track our KPIs. There’s a bit more to it than that. — If you’ve ever partnered with AWS when building an application you know that you go through an Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) plan in the weeks leading up to your go-live event. …

With Revue shutting down later this month, I had to find another option for my newsletters. So I built one. — This is the last week before the newsletter service Revue shuts down. It’s the service I’ve been using for the past 7 months to publish my newsletter. It worked decently well, had some nice features that shared the weekly summary with me, and it integrated directly with Twitter so people…