Mulling over ideas for posts from past projects and your input

CJ Taylor · September 13, 2020

Ideas   Projects   Book Reviews   Posts   AWS   GitHub

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it…then my illegal logging business is a success” - Someone on Reddit

Jokes aside, there’s a wide mixture of fun and dull problems solved one iteration at a time. I’ve liked the idea of writing more, so I’m prepping up ideas so that my efforts/interests aren’t like a tree in the woods; unheard or unnoticed.

After brainstorming yesterday, here are some ideas I’m considering. If any catch your attention or you have suggestions, let me know!

Walkthroughs / Projects

AWS

• AWS CDK
  • Developing a level-2 construct for
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • AWS Service Catalog
  • Using CDK Pipelines to incrementally develop your applications across multiple environments
• Cost optimizations
  • Reserved Instances and calculating Normalized Units to lower base units for a purchase
  • Using AWS:AutoScaling::ScheduledAction to scale down in off-hours
  • Using AWS Instance Scheduler for AWS RDS, AWS EC2, and AWS AutoScalingGroup cost savings
• AWS Service Catalog
  • Setting up Portfolios, Products and utilizing a single AWS CodePipeline to push Product updates for multiple products
• AWS CodePipeline
  • Configuring multi-environment application pipelines with testing embedded and approvals
  • Building pipelines to deploy/promote Database Migrations
• AWS CloudFormation
  • Building CI/CD pipelines for CloudFormation resources with Pull Request Feedback
• AWS AppConfig
  • Integrating AWS AppConfig into your application and using it for run-time configuration like Feature-Toggles

GitHub

• Github Actions
  • Using Github Actions to build/deploy iOS/Android applications
  • Creating private Custom GitHub Actions
• Using Terraform to manage your GitHub Organizations, Repos, Teams, and settings
• GitHub CodeSpaces
  • Using CodeSpaces to develop on open source projects
  • Configuring CodeSpaces to be “just right” for all your projects

Raspberry Pi

• Building a k3s cluster
• Using AWS to deploy to a Raspberry Pi k3s cluster

Book reviews / take-aways

• _Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems_ by Laine Campbell, Charity Majors
• _Implementing Service Level Objectives: A Practical Guide to Slis, Slos, and Error Budgets_ by Alex Hidalgo
• _Full Stack Serverless: Modern Application Development with React, AWS, and GraphQL_ by Nader Dabit
• _Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy_ by Eben Hewitt
• _Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))_ by Humble Jez, Farley David
• _Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly))_ by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly
• _Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good_ by Ann Mei Chang
• _Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide From Industry Experts_ by Eran Kinsbruner

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