50+ Months In The Cloud - My AWS Journey
August 2026 It's been exactly one year since my last post. And I wouldn't have realised that if it wasn't for a random email🙂. TLDR of the email I got an email about my self-hosted blog being autom
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Latest articles
Monitoring Java APIs with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray
I recently started a “Smart Skill” training on Cloud Academy to learn more about monitoring and observability, as these are some essentials for anyone working within DevOps/Platform engineering. Having used platforms like Splunk for incident investig...
Deploying Scalable APIs With Terraform and GitHub Actions
Scalability is a fundamental concept to consider when building efficient cloud solutions. Along with security, they are highlighted in Well-Architected framework pillars like Cost Optimisation and Reliability. I explored these two concepts in the thi...
Leveraging Lambda Functions (with Amazon SNS, S3 & EventBridge)
For the longest time, I couldn’t quite grasp or fully understand how serverless services on AWS like Lambda functions ACTUALLY work in real-world scenarios and products. Partly because I wasn’t too familiar with event-driven architecture or built pro...
Build and Deploy Weather App Using Streamlit and AWS ECS with Fargate
I recently joined a DevOps challenge aiming to provide interested participants with 20+(?) projects to build and develop their DevOps skills. In this post, I’ll be sharing how I worked on the first project, a weather data collection system that uses ...
Automate Image Upload to Azure Blob Storage With Terraform
September has been a month with new experiences, and one of them involved me getting a bit hands-on with Microsoft Azure, which in turn, means a blogpost!🫣 As an AWS Community Builder, I have mostly stuck to exploring AWS services for my personal pr...
Automate Node.js API Deployment to AWS App Runner Using Terraform
Ever run into a situation where you manually deployed your API to AWS via the management console (one with lots of enviroment variables too!), only to realise you forgot to change the region of deployment? It may not be the exact scenario but forgett...
Migrate Your Local MySQL Database to AWS RDS
In this post, I'll share detailed steps to migrate data in your local MySQL database to newly created instances on AWS RDS with MySQL. Background I worked on a full-stack project in 2023 where I manually handled the production deployments of my datab...
How to Automatically Assign Reviewers To GitHub Pull Requests
Have you ever collaborated on a GitHub project in a small-sized team, where anyone could review your PRs, but you would need to manually add everyone as a reviewer for 'fastest fingers first'? In this post, I'll share how you can quickly set up GitHu...