I know that I’d promised to have a further look at AWS CDK and CDK Pipelines – I must confess I haven’t managed to finish what I had planned to do; time has also been a bit of an issue during lockdown v2. Meanwhile I thought I’d write a post that I’d been meaning …
You may have guessed by now that I am so in love with AWS. The next declaration of love is exploring AWS Continuous Integration and Delivery services. Well, actually, there is another reason in addition to being enamoured – I need to have a look at those services in preparation for my AWS Developer …
7 months ago I changes jobs. Until then I’d only heard the word AWS, and I remember when I started the new job back in March, words like ‘load balancer’ and ‘bucket’ seemed ever so alien to me. Now they are a part of my everyday work vocabulary, and even though I don’t know …
6 months ago I didn’t have a clue what Terraform was. In my previous workplaces I always worked with infrastructure already in place and hardly any changes were ever required. So I was very excited when I started a new job, because I knew I would have a chance to be exposed to more …
When I graduated from a Russian university, I thought I’d never have anything to do with technology: I had just completed a 5-year-degree in teaching Computer Science and English, and I was certainly better at and more interested in the latter. It was not until 10 years later, in my early thirties, that I …
I first realized that I would like to and need to learn about containers when at one of the interviews I had I was asked if I had worked with containerized applications (I hadn’t). In my current team, there has been some conversation about deploying applications using Docker in the near future. So I …
Why ‘small byte’? In my work or when I’m learning in my free time, I often discover useful commands, methods or shortcuts. I use these repeatedly, but sometimes I need to look them up again. From my teaching days I recall one of my tutors saying that you don’t truly remember a word or …
I’ve wanted to have my own blog for a while and have had a lot of ideas about how I wanted to create it and experiment with different tools and services. However, since having a child, free time (i.e. learning and exploring time) has become a really precious commodity. So I knew that the …