CloudFormation

AWS

[Article] Edge cases in CloudFormation

CloudFormation is a declarative infrastructure management tool, meaning you describe what you want, upload, and the service will figure out what changes it needs to make to match reality with the configuration.

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Tamás Sallai

June 23, 2025

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Retries are still a best practice for serverless architectures

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June 18, 2025

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Key management and cryptography

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June 16, 2025

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Porting my neovim config to Nix

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June 12, 2025

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AWS best practice: reuse the SDK clients

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May 12, 2025

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How to install a full Linux on a pendrive

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May 6, 2025

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Bigger things are usually more complex

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March 24, 2025

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The response size of an AWS Lambda function can be reduced with compression

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March 17, 2025

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[Article] Developer practices for long-term product maintainability

It is all too easy to focus on feature X that has to be delivered in 2 weeks and lose sight of the long-term, especially when everybody in the room is fixated on that. My experience is that it's more important to focus on the future instead and not make sacrifices that will bite later.

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Tamás Sallai

January 30, 2025

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AWS

Aurora

[Article] A first look into AWS's new Aurora DSQL database

AWS recently announced the Aurora DSQL database that should fit into the space between the full-blown RDS and the way more restricted DynamoDB. It's still early days as it is currently in preview but there are quite a lot of information out there how to use it.

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Tamás Sallai

December 23, 2024

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AWS

CloudTrail

EventBridge

[Article] CloudTrail's horrible developer experience

CloudTrail has probably the worst developer experience I had with AWS recently. CloudTrail itself is an immensely useful service: it gives insights into the events that are happening in an account, such as who made changes to what resource, console logins, and also to some extent who accessed what.

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Tamás Sallai

September 17, 2024

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