I’m a Staff Platform Engineer at Stack Overflow, where I work on developer experience and help engineers get from idea to impact faster. I spend a lot of time thinking about platform engineering, AI, engineering effectiveness, and how to make complex systems easier to work with. This blog is where I write about those…
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Hosting static websites is great. As they only contain static assets to be downloaded by the visitor’s browser - think HTML, CSS, Javascript, Fonts, images - no server-side code such as Java or PHP needs to be run. They’re therefore typically faster to load than dynamic websites, they have a smaller attack surface…
I’ve been blogging for close to four years now. I started blogging because I wanted to pick up a new skill (writing) and challenge myself to do something new. Because I blog about what is both my work and hobby - software development and more specifically, cloud/platform engineering - it’s relatively simple to come up…
It’s been close to two years since I started working with AWS CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code solution by and for AWS. With CloudFormation you can describe and provision your entire AWS infrastructure in code. The entire AWS environment I work with is provisioned through CloudFormation - we only have…