• Wednesday

    • Private work.
    • Nutcracker nyc ballet at lincoln center.
    • Customized and ordered converse hightops.
    • More re:invent.
      • Going without saying, but remember to design your consumers to be idempotent (handle the same message more than once) and order-aware (handle messages out of order).
      • Analyzing lambda cold starts, minimizing loads, more.
      • Cloudformation support is part of the feature release process for other (non-IaC) teams.
      • You can integrate github actions (and others) with cloudformation actions. Trigger a deploy on commit, whatever. Of course.
      • Patterns to migrate to the cloud. Plan ahead, do it incrementally, understand why, etc.
      • Strangler Fig pattern. Breaking down an existing monolith into microservices and incrementally migrating.
    • Supercontest.
      • Westgate had an exclamation point in the line (+!2.5) which broke the weekly rollover. Fixed.