Andrew Gilliland

Andrew Gilliland

Articles

Building Data Pipelines with Step Functions and Lambda

Securing a Lambda API with Lambda Authorizers

Structuring a Lambda API for Performance

Lambda Cold Starts

Lambda with RDS Proxy

E2E Testing with Playwright

Getting Started with Pandas for Data Science

The Working Dad Workout Program

Environment Variables, Secrets, and SSM Parameter Store

No Bastion Required: Accessing Private RDS with SSM Port Forwarding

Intro to Amazon EC2

Understanding the Intersection Observer API

Intro to Amazon SNS

CloudWatch Alarms with SNS, Email, and Slack

Monitoring and Observability on AWS

Continuous Deployment to AWS with GitHub Actions and OIDC

Python Type Hints for TypeScript Developers

Python for JavaScript Developers

Intro to AWS CDK

Your First AWS Lambda Function with Python

Infrastructure as Code: CDK vs CloudFormation

Building a REST API with API Gateway and Lambda

Intro to DynamoDB for Python Developers

Intro to GitHub Actions

Intro to Docker for Python and Lambda

Setting Up SQLAlchemy Data Models with AWS Aurora

Amazon S3: What It Is, What It's For, and How to Deploy It with CDK

AWS Glossary - Networking, Serverless, Compute, and Databases

AWS Lambda: What It Is, When to Use It, and How to Deploy It

AWS RDS vs Aurora: Choosing the Right Managed Database

Three-Tier Architecture on AWS

Amazon EventBridge - Event-Driven Architecture on AWS

CI/CD for Lambda Functions with GitHub Actions

uv Is the npm of Python

Data Visualization with D3 and React

TypeScript Tips I Use Every Day

Why I Use Tailwind CSS

Getting Started with Astro

January 15, 2025