Last day at DXC!
Journey: 📊 Employment 📊
Subject matter: 💡 Last day at DXC 💡
My final day at DXC today, an odd feeling signing off after 15 years there.
Continue readingMoving on from DXC!
Journey: 📊 Employment 📊
Subject matter: 💡 Moving on from DXC 💡
🚀 After 1️⃣5️⃣ years working at DXC, I have made the decision to move on! 🚀
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Building an event-driven architecture using DynamoDB and EventBridge!
Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊
Subject matter: Building on AWS
Task: Building an event-driven architecture using DynamoDB and EventBridge!
Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.
Continue readingBeta Testing AWS Skill Builder - SimuLearn
Subject matter: 💡 Beta Testing AWS Skill Builder - SimuLearn 💡
In recent months, I was approached by AWS and asked if I was interested in Beta testing some of their new Training and Certification platform labs.
This was unrelated to both my day job and my AWS Community Builder role and was bound (at the time) by a separate confidentiality agreement. This essentially meant, not discussing it publically until it went Live.
Continue readingEnjoying some downtime
Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊
Subject matter: 💡 Downtime 💡
It was nice to get back into some cloud building this week, and for once everything I built worked first time, which was nice!! 🤩
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Building an API Gateway and uploading files to S3 via Postman
Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊
Subject matter: Building on AWS
Task: Building an API Gateway and uploading files to S3 via Postman!
Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Reliability will be achieved in this build.
Continue readingTroubleshooting a Terraform Apply failing due to a CloudWatch Logs role ARN must be set error
Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊
Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡
Task: Troubleshooting a Terraform Apply failing due to a CloudWatch Logs role ARN must be set error
While working on a build to deploy a REST API using API Gateway linked here, the Terraform apply failed mid-way through. The code base for this project is probably the largest I have worked with so far, with hundreds of lines of config to work through.
