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Lou — Cloud Native Software Engineer

I write stuff on Cloud Engineering @ thedevcoach.co.uk. I made splitoo.com. Also likes: 🏋️‍♂️🎸🚴🏻‍♂️🏍

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Education

Loughborough University

Work

Developer Experience (Platform Engineer) at DAZN

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Do Cloud Engineers Code?

#devops #cloud #aws
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Where (And How) to Start Learning AWS as a Beginner

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Using Create-React-App with Express

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Supportive tech forums & online communities: Any recommendations?

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re: Cloud Native Software Engineering Newsletter #16 (September 2020)
Thanks for the heads up! Yeah, that link got really mangled...
re: Never Get an Unexpected AWS Bill Again!
You should also checkout and have a play with ACG playground ...
re: Let's Grow DEV's Cloud & DevOps Content! ☁️
Ah, that's neat !
re: If you could go back in time, what skill would you have focused more on to help you succeed in your current position?
Gotcha, thanks for expanding. I guess the "competitive" part ...
re: As a developer, what are you expecting from your employees/fellow developers when they first start at the company?💻
Great answer.
re: If you could go back in time, what skill would you have focused more on to help you succeed in your current position?
Oh boy would I love to write a full post on this. Firstly t...
re: If you could go back in time, what skill would you have focused more on to help you succeed in your current position?
Can you expand? What are the merits, in your eyes?
re: Do you host and install your Postgres on your own?
I've never self-hosted, personally. Every time I've used AWS ...
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What Are The Pre-Requisites To Learning AWS? 5 Topics You Probably Should Look Into First.

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Does AWS Require Coding? Understanding When You Might Need To Code.

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Can AWS Lambda Access A Database? And The Considerations You Should Be Taking.

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How Long Does It Take To Learn Terraform? And How To Speed Up Your Learning.

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Is AWS Easy To Learn? (And How You Can Make It Easier)

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Cloud Native Software Engineering Newsletter #16 (September 2020)

#news #devops #serverless #cloud
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The Secret Of Web Development BootCamps And How To Use Cloud To Your Advantage

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Cloud Native Software Engineering Newsletter #15 (August 2020)

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You’re Alerting Wrong: The Why & How Of Setting An AWS Lambda Alarm Using Error Rate Percentages.

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Should You Use Typescript To Write Terraform? (The Terraform CDK)

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Cloud Native Software Engineering Newsletter #14 (July 2020)

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A Philosophy For Effective Error Handling (Using JavaScript Examples)

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How To Setup Monitoring / Observability On Existing Software (e.g. A Web API): A Practical 5 Step Guide.

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Terraform: How To Rename (Instead Of Deleting) A Resource

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How I Gained Consistent Traffic To My Website Using SEO (And How You Can, Too)

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Reader Question: Which AWS Certificates Should You Start With If You’re A Junior?

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The Simplest Possible EC2 Web Server Setup Using Terraform (On AWS)

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Containers: Benefits and Making a Business Case

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What is Terraform? A Simple Definition.

#infrastructure #devops #cloud #aws
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10 Terraform Best Practices: For Secure & Fast Infrastructure.

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Serverless on AWS Lambda: A Comprehensive Comparison Of Approaches (Serverless Framework vs SAM vs Terraform vs CloudFormation)

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3 Simple Serverless Beginner Project Ideas

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Misconceptions of Serverless: 5 Things You Thought AWS Lambda Did… But It Doesn’t.

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How to Use AWS KMS in AWS Lambda

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Should You Commit the Terraform .tfstate File to Git?

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The Ultimate Terraform Workflow: Setup Terraform (And Remote State) With Github Actions

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Master the AWS Lambda Console: A Comprehensive Walkthrough.

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AWS Queues And Lambda Processing: A Simple, Quick Walkthrough.

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How To Setup AWS Lambda Scheduled Events with Terraform

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What Is the Best Way to Learn Terraform?

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Create An AWS S3 Based Website Using Terraform And Github Actions

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2019 Summary: Up & Running With Serverless and Regaining Blogging Motivation

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You’re Logging Wrong: What One-Per-Service (“Phat Event”) Logs Are and Why You Need Them.

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How To Get AWS Lambda Logs Into CloudWatch

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What is Immutable Infrastructure?

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Set Up AWS Lambda With An ALB (Load Balancer)

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3 Steps To Migrate Manually Created Infrastructure To Terraform

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AWS Lambda on Github Actions: How To Send Zipped Artifacts to AWS S3

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5 Important Reasons To Learn Terraform Before Cloud Computing.

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Learning Cloud? (Serverless, Kubernetes, Microservices, etc) — What's your biggest frustration?

#discuss #devops #cloud
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Yarn and the dark future of third party NPM clients

#node #javascript #npm #webdev
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Declarative vs. Imperative Infrastructure As Code

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My first ever tutorial video: What do you think?

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AWS access keys — 5 Tips To Safely Use Them.

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Learn The 6 Fundamentals Of Terraform — In Less Than 20 Minutes

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AWS networking fundamentals: A simple guide for software engineers.

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3 Terraform features to help you refactor your infrastructure effortlessly

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4 signs you should break your app into Microservices

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Your personal AWS setup (and how to not get hacked)

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Introducing 🥁: The Cloud Native Software Engineering Newsletter! 🎉

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The 6 concepts you need to know before trying Serverless

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WHAT IS A CLOUD NATIVE SOFTWARE ENGINEER?

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Infrastructure as Code: A quick and simple explanation.

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ACloudGuru Review: AWS SysOps Exam Prep.

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Setting up a REST API on Serverless Framework

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The Not-So-Scary Explanation Of Currying In Javascript

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