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Tim Burns
- Sep 9, 2020
- 1 min
DevOps QA and Brown M&Ms
Van Halen had a famous policy to test whether a venue paid attention to details. In the snacks section of their contract, they had...
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Tim Burns
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
Don't Develop in Production!
Sometimes the obvious is obvious. Don't do development in production, even if you haven't deployed yet. Some shops will do their initial...
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Tim Burns
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
AWS Stepfunctions Rock!
The Step Function feature in AWS makes expensive integration platforms obsolete. I'll be looking at the price carefully, but if you find...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 24, 2020
- 1 min
Curl to PyTest
Curl is fine for testing manually, but my eyes get tired watching all that JSON mumbo-jumbo. curl -H "X-API-KEY: ${X_API_KEY}" -X POST...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 24, 2020
- 1 min
Sleep is for the Weak
Sleep is for the weak... and FUCKERS!
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Tim Burns
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Yes - CODE REVIEWS PEOPLE!
In a world of agile nincompoops spewing corporate psychobabble nonsense, I am occasionally reminded that there are good people out there...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
A Dungeon Master's API Gateway
Every good adventure starts with a door. Perhaps the door is more than a door, but a gateway to some enchanted temple. As a Dungeon...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 14, 2020
- 1 min
Security Checklist: Limit Scope on Secrets
The late, great Adam Schlesinger wrote about a quarterback who "all kinds of time." Sadly, the only ones these days who really have all...
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Tim Burns
- Dec 21, 2019
- 1 min
How Copy S3 Data Directly into Postgres
If you've read my previous articles on Postgres, you now have the ability to spin up and spin down a Postgres instance from the command...
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Tim Burns
- Dec 14, 2019
- 2 min
Jump-start Postgres Development with Terraform
Ensuring your development work will merge neatly with a production system is critical to success. A dirty secret of development databases...
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Tim Burns
- Dec 7, 2019
- 2 min
Postgres is Not a Dinosaur (At least not with AWS)
Ten years ago, we had a development database server we affectionately named "Terabytes Rex." No irony. The mass extinction of on-premises...
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Tim Burns
- Dec 1, 2019
- 2 min
Using a Lambda Layer with API Gateway
AWS API Gateway is one of the most common ways to trigger a Lambda function. The API gateway acts as a front end to the Lambda function,...
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Tim Burns
- Nov 23, 2019
- 2 min
Test First Design with AWS Serverless
Get Test Coverage with PyTest on Local Systems Momentum is building behind pure serverless environments with API Gateway and Lambda, but...
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Tim Burns
- Nov 9, 2019
- 2 min
Building a Secure AWS Virtual Private Cloud
Before the cloud revolution, technical operations gurus were wizards that magically created the network, then handed it off to us...
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Tim Burns
- Sep 5, 2019
- 1 min
Finally found a Good Discussion of Layers
Lessons Learned: Windows machines are not a good way to attempt to build Lambda services because you need to download and compile your...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 21, 2019
- 1 min
Scariest Dude in Providence
The gargoyle in the photo is affectionately known as "The Scariest Dude in Providence" to the locals. Great picture taken on a great day....
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Tim Burns
- Jun 30, 2019
- 2 min
Python JSON with S3: Parsing Directly from S3
The previous post on parsing JSON seemed so completely pointless. Here is what I did: Wrote a test to assert a string literal equals a...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 30, 2019
- 2 min
Python JSON: A simple JSON application with Big Goals
The joy of developing large scale apps comes from following this process Create small abstractions that hide complexity Build components...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 29, 2019
- 2 min
AWS and Terraform: Setting up your first AWS Remote File
AWS is the hidden backbone of many modern companies. It really changes your life as an architect or systems engineer, because all the...
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