AWS Developer Associate Exam 2019

I recently got the AWS Developer Associate certification. Here are some tips and a copy of my study notes.

Read the AWS Exam Guide. It’s a 3 pager by AWS describing exactly what is in the test.

Purchase the Whizlabs Practice Exams. A few people had recommended these to me and I found the …


Domain Modeling Made Functional

Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin is a book which guides you through the design and implementation of an e-commerce ordering system. It’s a real world application with non-trivial business requirements. The project is implemented in F#, but any other language with a powerful …


SQLite Database with Dapper and F#

May 4 2019 · tech fsharp linux dotnet sql

This is a tutorial on using F# with Dapper to query a SQLite database on .NET Core. It uses the fsharp-dapper library written by Alex Troshkin. While this example uses SQLite, the general pattern could be used for any other SQL database. All code from this post is on Github and can be run locally. …


Thoughts on Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

April 24 2019 · tech books lean devops practices

I recently read Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. Here I give a brief overview of the book and share some thoughts I had while reading it.

Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

The authors are looking to answer questions such as “Do technical practices and automation impact software …


Moving my blog to AWS

April 19 2019 · tech aws

Up until now my blog has been hosted on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). At work I’m in studying for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Developer Associate Certificate so I wanted some more hands on experience with AWS. Solely for the sake of learning I have moved my blog from GCP to AWS.

On GCP I …