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Welcome to my blog, where I share my writings as well as my weekly newsletter where I cover all things AWS and open source related. The majority of this blog will be technical, hands on with the occasional leadership piece.
I am always looking for great open source projects to feature and dive deep into, so if you are workingon something you are really excited about, please get in touch and I would love to feature that work within the newsletter or as a dedicated blog post.
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Recent posts
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AWS open source news and updates #123
Aug 5, 2022 | 16 minute read
August, 5th, 2022 - Instalment #123 Welcome Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter episode #123. I sometimes speak with builders who are experienced developers but perhaps new to open source. A common question I get asked is what the impact of them working on open source might be on their careers. Whilst it is never a guarantee, open source can be a great career accelerator. I was reminded of that last week when reading the excellent post from Ran Isenberg, who shared his experience in his post How One Open-Source Code Donation Got Me Promoted.
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AWS open source news and updates #122
Jul 29, 2022 | 14 minute read
July 29th, 2022 - Instalment #122 Welcome Welcome back to my regular readers and hello to new readers, I hope you will enjoy and come back again to the AWS open source newsletter episode #122. This week we have another great collection of community and AWS related open source tools, demos and samples for you to practice your open source four freedoms. “rds_auto_encrypt” helps you encrypt your Amazon RDS databases, “middy-profiler” is an interesting looking tool to help you understand performance characteristics of your AWS Lambda functions, “simpleiot” is a very nice looking IoT framework to help simplify how you can onboard devices into AWS IoT, “aws-secrets-manager-hybrid-secret-replication-from-hashicorp-vault” (bit of a mouthful to say that one) helps you synchronise your secrets across different secret providers, “automated-forensic-orchestrator-for-amazon-ec2” is a very nice reference solution for automating some of your operational security activities, and we have several other projects for you to dive deep into.
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AWS open source news and updates #121
Jul 22, 2022 | 15 minute read
July 22nd, 2022 - Instalment #121 Welcome to regular and new readers alike, to the AWS open source newsletter episode #121. Am super excited about this weeks new projects, including a number of AWS CDK related projects so if you are a fan of AWS CDK then make sure you check them all out. We feature projects such as “openrolesanywhere”, a proof of concept client for the recently released AWS IAM Roles Anywhere, “amazon-redshift-odbc-driver” an open source ODBC driver for Amazon Redshift, “spot-interruption-simulation” a very handy tool to help you test and simulate spot interuptions for your EC2 workloads, “magento-ecs-cdk” a quick way to deploy a scalable Magento environment, “using-rekognition-to-detect-sounds” a very interesting project that will help you hear sounds from your pictures (yes, you did not read that wrong!