Maurice Brg

Writing about stuff and building things for ...reasons.

AWS-Blog: Complexity costs: Read performance for nested DynamoDB items with different Lambda configurations

Long title but interesting results - turns out the memory size of a Lambda function really matters for performance.

AWS-Blog: Modelling a product catalog in DynamoDB

I wrote an article on the tecRacer AWS Blog in which I talk about DynamoDB and the process of data modeling in NoSQL databases with the example of a product catalog.

AWS-Blog: DynamoDB in 15 minutes

I wrote an article on the tecRacer AWS Blog in which I introduce DynamoDB, a very powerful fully managed NoSQL wide-column data store in AWS. I explain the data structures, the APIs to read and write data and indexes. I also talk about performance and cost considerations. The goal is for the reader to gain a solid understanding of the basics.

AWS-Blog: How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions

I wrote an article on the tecRacer AWS Blog in which I investigate how different lambda memory configurations impact the cold start time when using boto3.

AWS-Blog: Why I had to update my mental model of DynamoDB streams

In this article on the tecRacer AWS Blog I explain a detail about DynamoDB streams that surprised me and had me reconsider my mental model of the service.

Make your own Code Snippets in VS Code

2020-12-12 5 min read tools Maurice Borgmeier

I’ve been writing a lot in VS Code over the last weeks to prepare a Python course for work. After the 1000th time creating a Python code block in Markdown, I thought: There must be an easier way to do this - and there is: VS Code Snippets. In this article I teach you how to configure your own.

AWS-Blog: Speed up Docker Image Building with the CDK

I wrote an article on the tecRacer AWS Blog about something you might want to do to speed up your cdk synth/ cdk deploy when you’re building Docker images.

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🇩🇪 User Management with Cognito, Fargate, Python and the CDK - German AWS Community Day 2020

2020-10-03 1 min read blog

The recording of my talk on User Management with Cognito, Fargate, Python and the CDK at the German AWS Community Day 2020 has been released on YouTube.

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