A Note on Connecting GitHub Webhooks with Jenkins in AWS

Jenkins is a potential CI/CD solution for my company. I'll admit that I have it in for Azure DevOps. No one really understands it well. The person who set it up has left the company. Jenkins is likely the leader in this space. As part of this effort, I wanted to explore GitHub Webhooks as [...]

Passing the AWS Associate Exam

Passing the AWS Associate Exam

Looking for advice on passing an AWS Architecture Associate Exam? I had been looking for that advice very recently. Fortunately, there are plenty of good resources out there to help. (And yes, I did pass the exam recently.) Advice isn't in the form of exam answers. Well, it is if you're willing to dig in. I followed [...]

AWS SWF Responsibility Patterns

AWS SWF Responsibility Patterns

Note: this is a conceptual, "how does the SWF design pattern work" article, rather than a "how-to". In fact, implementation does not need to be Amazon specific, although SWF supports the pattern. A Naive, Simple Code Example We may write fairly complex algorithms to fulfill the needs of a complex process. One could write a single function [...]