I work with services that support some of the biggest websites in Finland. I’m into building stuff in the cloud with my current programming languages of choice Go & TypeScript: I’m enthusiastic about serverless, developer tooling, infrastructure as code and I hold several AWS & GCP certificates. And this is my blog.
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Home Network Upgrade
In the midst of the pandemic & extensive WFH, I decided to upgrade my home network: Since I went with a totally overkill setup resulting in several people being curious about it, I wrote this blog post describing what I've built & why, what challenges I had and what I learned throughout the process.
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10 years at Alma Media
So, it's been 10 years now for me at Alma Media; I guess it's a good time to reflect a bit.
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AWS Community Nordics 2021 Virtual Event: CI/CD
Robust CI/CD Pipelines for Serverless Applications: How to achieve more robust CI/CD pipelines by better utilizing testing and modern tools.
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2021 Wishlist for AWS
It's AWS re:Invent season again and you can expect many new product launches accompanied by a bazillion of new features for existing products. We've already seen a lot of great announcements and I suspect still many more to come! For people like me who build things in the cloud, it's almost as exciting time as holiday season for a kid who eagerly awaits what presents Santa Claus will bring! But I'm already looking ahead, to year 2021 and here's some of my wishes for AWS.
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Lambda Container Image Support (example with Custom Runtime)
AWS announced Lambda Container Image Support in re:Invent 2020 and I wanted to play around with it a bit. In this blog post I show you how to create a Lambda function with Dockerfile and a shell script as the runtime function!
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AWS Community Nordics 2020 Virtual Event: CDK Special
Deep dive into CDK with introduction, serverless demo, concepts and considerations for complex projects.
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Building Lambda functions inside Docker containers with CDK
CDK can now manage building Lambda functions (such as ones written in Go) within sandboxed Docker containers - that resemble the Lambda execution environment - during CDK synth and deploy! Best of all, you can configure the build process quite easily using "BundlingOptions" interface within the CDK's Function construct.
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Real World Serverless with Yan Cui
I was a guest on “Real World Serverless” podcast episode #23 where I talked with Yan Cui about real-world use of Serverless technologies at Alma Media.
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Hello World!
Finally the day came when I (re)published my website! In this blog post I talk a bit about the design & development process and the technology behind this website.
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DevOps Pro Europe 2020 Conference
Bringing a great developer experience into DevOps and infrastructure as code with AWS Cloud Development Kit.
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AWS Community Day Nordics 2020 Conference
Infrastructure as code for multi-account & multi-environment architectures with AWS Cloud Development Kit.
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AWS User Group Finland 2019
Introduction to AWS Cloud Development Kit.
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AWS User Group Finland 2017
Introduction to AWS Serverless Application Model.
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HelsinkiJS & Frontend Finland 2016
Introduction to (ReactJS) Universal JavaScript Web Applications.
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HelsinkiJS & DevOpsFinland 2015
I presented an introduction to “Frontend Ops” at HelsinkiJS & DevOpsFinland combined January event to bring frontend developers and operations people together.
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