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

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2021/02/how-boto3-impacts-the-cold-start-times-of-your-lambda-functions.html

2021-02-08 · Maurice Borgmeier

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

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2021/01/why-i-had-to-update-my-mental-model-of-dynamodb-streams.html

2021-01-26 · Maurice Borgmeier

Make your own Code Snippets in VS Code

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.

2020-12-12 · 5 min · Maurice Borgmeier

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

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2020/10/speed-up-docker-image-building-with-the-cdk.html

2020-10-06 · Maurice Borgmeier

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

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.

2020-10-03 · 1 min · Maurice Borgmeier

What I learned from giving my first conference talk

A couple of days ago I delivered my first conference talk at the German AWS Community Day 2020. Today it’s time to reflect on the experience, the event and my process. In this post I’m going to share my thoughts on the conference as well as my key takeaways.

2020-10-01 · 9 min · Maurice Borgmeier

How to increase the volume on your MP4 video

While recording my talk for the German AWS Community Day I created a video that isn’t loud enough. In this post I teach you how I used audacity and ffmpeg to increase the volume of my video.

2020-09-21 · 4 min · Maurice Borgmeier

Preparing for the German AWS Community Day 2020

In this article I share how I’m preparing for my first conference talk at the German AWS Community day on September 25, 2020. The talk will be about user management with Cognito, Fargate, Python and the CDK and I’m very curious as to how that will work out.

2020-09-07 · 4 min · Maurice Borgmeier

Record your terminal with Terminalizer

This article is an introduction to Terminalizer which allows you to record what’s going on in your terminal and convert this recording to a gif.

2020-08-31 · 7 min · Maurice Borgmeier

CLI Text styling, Progress Bars and more with Python and Click

In this article we’re going to take a look at some of the quality of life improvements Click offers to build command line interfaces. There’s a couple of things it makes a lot easier for users compared to building your own CLI - e.g. text styling or progress bars.

2020-08-24 · 11 min · Maurice Borgmeier