Dakota Lewallen

AWS Community Builder 👷‍♂️ | 2x AWS Certified 📝 | Empowering Developers

Indiana, US Joined on Feb 7, 2018 https://dakotalewallen.me

Education

Self-taught

Work

Principal Software Engineer @ QsrSoft

AWS Community Builders

dnd-graphql

Graphql service wrapper for the Dungeons and Dragons 5e SRD

TypeScript • 3 stars

ssh-bm

An ssh bookmarking program

TypeScript • 3 stars

aws-cdk-split-horizon-dns

Small construct to help manage split-horizon DNS configs in AWS Route53

TypeScript • 1 star

short-cut-go

Small linux utility for creating environment-based terminal shortcuts.

Go • 1 star

valorant-lineups

JavaScript • 1 star

Node, Python, Django, Express, React, Vue, PostgreSQL, AWS

How to solve problems with software.

44 posts published

46 comments written

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Dakota Lewallen

Jan 30 '23

Split Horizon DNS in AWS Made Easy!

#aws #awscdk #route53

3 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Oct 10 '22

How to Not Get Burnt by AWS Bills

#aws #beginners #billing

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jun 20 '22

SSH-BM, An SSH bookmarking program

#javascript #cli #ssh

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 5 '20

Git Essentials in Five Minutes or Less

#git #beginners #intro #short

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen for AWS Community Builders

Apr 11

To Build or to Reuse? A CDK Question

#aws #cdk #devops #tutorial

4 min read

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Mar 28

Multi-region Deployments with CDK

#aws #awscdk #tutorial #devops

5 min read

Dakota Lewallen for AWS Community Builders

Mar 18

Three Tips for Writing CDK Tests

#aws #awscdk #testing #learning

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen for AWS Community Builders

Mar 8

Organize Your CDK lib Folder by Function Not Service

#aws #cdk #devops

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Dec 12 '23

CDK Dependency Strategies

#aws #cdk #dependencies

4 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jan 13 '23

TIL: How to CDK Diff Your Entire App

#todayilearned #aws #cdk #cloudformation

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Oct 15 '22

Prepping for ReInvent: Getting my Dev Associate Cert

#aws #reinvent #certification

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 3 '22

My Software Logbook Process

#writing #habits #review

9 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 11 '22

Should you use AWS X-Ray for all of your lambdas in AWS?

#aws #lambda #xray

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Mar 12 '22

Learning About Dynamo

#aws #dynamodb #thoughts

4 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Nov 18 '21

Some thoughts on working with the CDK and serverless architecture in AWS

#devops #aws #cdk #typescript

4 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Nov 2 '21

2 Ways to Improve your Node.js Application

#node #devops #npm

3 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Dec 17 '20

What is the most tedious part of your day?

#discuss #process #tooling

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Aug 22 '20

August 22nd Side Project Checkin

#watercooler #sideprojects #discuss #checkin

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Aug 15 '20

I'm Live on Twitch building a Discord bot!

#discord #twitch #livecoding #javascript

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Aug 14 '20

What would you guys like to see me stream?

#livecoding #javascript #poll #twitch

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Aug 12 '20

My first week with Plausible

#seo #analytics #frontend

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jul 25 '20

I'm live on twitch building a file sharing app!

#livestream #twitch #serverless #react

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jun 22 '20

June 22nd Side Project Checkin

#watercooler #discuss #checkin #sideprojects

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jun 19 '20

I Rebuilt My Personal Site!

#showdev #react #ssg #nextjs

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jun 15 '20

June 15th Side Project Check-in

#watercooler #discuss #checkin #sideprojects

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jun 8 '20

June 8th Side Project Check-in

#discuss #watercooler #checkin #sideprojects

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Jun 2 '20

Best Tech Startup Podcasts?

#watercooler #discuss #startup

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 30 '20

May 30th Side Project Check-in

#discuss #watercooler #checkin #sideprojects

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 26 '20

When starting a new project, when wouldn't you want to build in a cloud?

#discuss #watercooler #architecture #cloud

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 21 '20

May 21st Side Project Check-in

#discuss #watercooler #checkin #sideprojects

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 17 '20

deno-diceware. A Deno Password Generator.

#deno #cli #productivity #typescript

2 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 14 '20

Can someone ELI5, what it means to have the typescript compiler built into a V8 snapshot?

#help #deno #eli5

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 14 '20

May 14th Side Project Checkin

#discuss #sideprojects #checkin #watercooler

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 10 '20

How I host my personal site for ~$1USD/Month

#react #aws #tutorial #codenewbie

6 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 8 '20

How do you balance professional work and open source?

#discuss #watercooler #chat

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 6 '20

May 6th Side Project Checkin

#discuss #sideprojects #checkin #watercooler

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

May 2 '20

May 2nd Side Project Checkin

#discuss #sideprojects #checkin

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 29 '20

April 28th Side Project Check-in

#discuss #sideprojects #checkin

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 27 '20

Portfolio Feedback

#feedback #react #html #css

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 21 '20

Generate GraphQL Resolvers From Your Schema

#todayilearned #neo4j #database #node

4 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 19 '20

My Pragmatic VSCode Setup

#productivity #tools #vscode #setup

4 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 14 '20

What are you guys working on?

#discuss #conversation #share #sideprojects

1 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 8 '20

Git Remotes in Five Minutes or Less

#git #remote #intro #short

3 min read

Dakota Lewallen

Apr 6 '20

Git Branches in Five Minutes or Less

#git #branches #intro #short

2 min read

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