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I prefer good ol' fashioned personal blogs over “content platforms” and here I'll try to contribute a bit on that regard. Expect blog posts about cloud - especially AWS - focusing on full-stack development, serverless, infrastructure as code and developer tooling.

  • Home Network Upgrade

    2021-09-18 blog

    In the midst of the pandemic and extensively working from home, I decided to upgrade my home network setup. Since I went with a totally overkill setup, resulting in several people interested in it, I decided to write a blog post about it. This is an overview what I built, what challenges I had and what I learned throughout the process.

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  • 10 years at Alma Media

    2021-05-14 blog

    So, it's been 10 years now for me at Alma Media; I guess it's a good time to reflect a bit.

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  • 2021 Wishlist for AWS

    2020-12-14 blog

    It's AWS re:Invent season again and you can expect many new product launches accompanied by a bazillion of new features for existing products. We've already seen a lot of great announcements and I suspect still many more to come! For people like me who build things in the cloud, it's almost as exciting time as holiday season for a kid who eagerly awaits what presents Santa Claus will bring! But I'm already looking ahead, to year 2021 and here's some of my wishes for AWS.

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  • Lambda Container Image Support (example with Custom Runtime)

    2020-12-01 blog

    AWS announced Lambda Container Image Support in re:Invent 2020 and I wanted to play around with it a bit. In this blog post I show you how to create a Lambda function with Dockerfile and a shell script as the runtime function!

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  • Building Lambda functions inside Docker containers with CDK

    2020-08-10 blog

    CDK can now manage building Lambda functions (such as ones written in Go) within sandboxed Docker containers - that resemble the Lambda execution environment - during CDK synth and deploy! Best of all, you can configure the build process quite easily using "BundlingOptions" interface within the CDK's Function construct.

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  • Hello World!

    2020-08-04 blog

    Finally the day came when I (re)published my website! In this blog post I talk a bit about the design & development process and the technology behind this website.

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