Coding Development Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier At this point I am 8 or so years in to my development career. There's a vast amount of practices and methodologies I know about development now that I obviously did not then. Here's a list of things I wish I had known sooner than later.
AWS SmushIt - A Golang AWS Lambda Archiving Function I've come across many times where I've needed to take some files at a group of URLs, download them, zip them up, and send them to someone. Unfortunately once the final archive gets to a certain size it becomes difficult to easily share (especially via email). So I wrote SmushIt.
Technical Load Testing Learnings Using Locust And AWS High amounts of traffic can lead to a web developers most exciting times but also their most challenging times.
Conference RedisConf 2018 - High Level Learnings One of the main takeaways I've had from attending this conference is how easily Redis can be used for so much. Ending the common thought process of "Redis is just a caching layer" opens your eyes to a much broader world of insanely powerful applications of this incredible technology.