jennapederson.hashnode.dev11 Tips for Writing a Resume to Land That JobThis post was inspired by a Twitter thread of mine, which you can find here. "Worked on features for internal React app" or "Built feature in React app to reduce manual work by marketing team by 2 hours per day" Which one of these hits better...Jan 30, 2022·8 min read
jennapederson.hashnode.devUsing CloudFormation to Automate Build, Test, and Deploy with CodePipelineIn part 1, we automated the provisioning of an Amazon EC2 instance using AWS CloudFormation. In part 2, we added an Amazon RDS Postgresql database to the CloudFormation template from part 1 so both the EC2 instance and the database can be provisioned...Dec 8, 2021·12 min read
jennapederson.hashnode.devHow to Use CDK Outputs in Your InSpec TestsAs a programmer, hard-coding values in my code, even test code, feels dirty and it's usually not a scalable practice. I've built an AWS CDK app to manage my infrastructure with code and I'm starting to write some integration tests with InSpec, an ope...Jul 29, 2021·3 min read
jennapederson.hashnode.devProvisioning an RDS Database with CloudFormationIn part 1, we automated the provisioning of your Amazon EC2 instance using AWS CloudFormation. When you built the EC2 instance manually in the past, you were seeing inconsistencies between environments, had to manually test your infrastructure setup,...Jun 28, 2021·10 min read
jennapederson.hashnode.devProvisioning an EC2 Instance with CloudFormationAs a full-stack developer, you don’t have time to deal with infrastructure, environment inconsistencies, manual testing, and manual deployment of your team’s web app. It’s time-consuming, frustrating, and requires yet another skill-set, especially si...Jun 21, 2021·9 min read