Newsletter martinmueller.dev 2022 week 32

August 14, 2022

In this weekly newsletter, I write a summary of posts that got my attention during the week. I center around topics AWS, DevOps, Architecture, AWS CDK, Serverless, Data Engineering, Data Analytics and much more.

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Hey CDK, how do cross-account deployments work?

https://garbe.io/blog/2022/08/01/hey-cdk-how-to-cross-account-deployments/

A nice deep dive into how CDK bootstrap works and which roles for what purpose it creates. Furthermore the author explains the different options for how to deploy a CDK stack and when your should use which method. Read it!

Thanks a lot to the author Philipp Garbe

Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects

https://future.com/developers-side-projects/

Why developers are working or should work on side projects? It is super exciting to read why developers are working on side projects. I myself am working on side projects as well and it is a lot of fun :). Though my dream would be to get a somewhat successful product running.

Thanks a lot to the author Ben Stokes

3 Things to Know Before Building a Multi-Tenant Serverless App

https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/things-to-know-before-building-a-multi-tenant-serverless-app/

This article is around the topic of multi-tenancy in serverless applications. In this, the author reports about his past experience when working on implementing a multi-tenant solution and which problems he has encountered. Super interesting read!

Thanks a lot to the author Allen Helton

SHOULD YOU PAY FOR CI/CD IN 2022?

https://blog.symops.com/2022/08/10/pay-for-continuous-integration/

Gives a historical roundtrip of the CI/CD history.

Thanks a lot to the author Adam Buggia and Brian Tarbox

Amazon CloudFront for your tech stack

https://dev.to/aws-builders/amazon-cloudfront-for-your-tech-stack-5ggk

A nice article about one of my favorite AWS services CloudFront. It explains what you can do with CloudFront like reducing latency via caching, implementing geo restrictions, and much more.

Thanks a lot to the author Jones Zachariah Noel

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https://dev.to/logrocket/micro-frontend-with-react-and-nextjs-n6h

Explains an interesting way how to create micro frontends with react and nextjs.

Thanks a lot to the author

How to develop strong problem-solving skills as a software developer

https://dev.to/nathan20/how-to-develop-strong-problem-solving-skills-as-a-software-developer-25nb

Offers a good summary of different ways how to solve complex problems as a software developer (probably not just there)! Further, the author explains how to improve your problem-solving skills.

Thanks a lot to the author Nathan

Thinking like containers

https://dev.to/leandronsp/thinking-like-containers-3k24

Explains very on the point what containers are about. And how to persist data from the container via volumes is described very well as well.

Thanks a lot to the author Leandro Proença

Low-cost best practices in AWS

https://dev.to/aws-builders/low-cost-best-practices-in-aws-234

A very good article that highlights best practices in terms of security and saving costs.

Thanks a lot to the author guilleojeda

I got my first Pull Request merged

https://dev.to/jhhornn/i-got-my-first-pull-request-merged-3ei9

A super encouraging article about first-time contributions to an open source project. So cool!

Thanks a lot to the author Awosise Oluwaseun

Make Errors User-Friendly with React Error Boundaries

https://dev.to/thisurathenuka/make-errors-user-friendly-with-react-error-boundaries-9e7

An interesting read of React Error Boundaries for rendering JavaScript errors in a nicer way.

Thanks a lot to the author Thisura Thenuka

Final Words

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