Author: Oksana Horlock

S3 Object Lambda in CDK for .NET

The moment I learnt that S3 Object Lambda was out, I knew I’d want to experiment with it. Why? For two reasons really – at work we have quite a few scenarios when the same objects in S3 need to be presented in different shapes or forms, data extracted, or content transformed. So I’ve …

InvalidParameterCombination error when creating RDS instance in Terraform

A few days ago I was tasked with provisioning infrastructure for an application using Terraform. Until recently my experience with RDS instances had been creating, copying and sharing snapshots, and referencing the correct snapshot in the resource block of the Terraform script. On this occasion, however, I needed to create a database instance without …

Elastic Beanstalk CLI commands

So, I have the AWS Developer Associate exam booked in a week’s time, so I’m going through all the services the questions about which are likely to come up in the exam. Yesterday I looked at Elastic Beanstalk, an AWS service that lets you quickly deploy application with things such as load balancing, autoscaling …

Small byte 2: what is a captive dependency?

I’m a big fan of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper (DDD) events. I was lucky to attend DDD South West in 2018 before my son was born. Needless to say I’m very happy that the recordings of the 2020 conference are available on YouTube, and this has been my pastime in the morning when I’m getting Andre’s lunch …