Millennials: we're really not that young anymore
In my interactions with my co-workers, I realize that there's this ageism misconception that's really pervasive.
In my interactions with my co-workers, I realize that there's this ageism misconception that's really pervasive.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I've been wondering about whether empowerment is just a thing we like to say that we need, but never really get to see in action.
I'm going to go out of a limb and guess that everyone hates mandatory corporate training. Whether it's ethics, compliance or regulation related - we all hate doing it.
OK so I just finished the Professional Scrum class with the good folks from Scrum.org. Great people, fantastic trainers and content. All of us had a good time. The framework gives some valuable insights on how to properly empower teams to enable them to do the right thing. Great stuff.
So yesterday I implemented part of a quickstart resource that creates webhook endpoints and deploys an AWS lambda function to push my source code to S3. Everything was fine up until after I'd created all the resources in the Cloudformation template
I found a quickstart resource that creates webhook endpoints and deploys an AWS lambda function to push my source code to S3. It uses a pre-existing Cloudformation template so lagi noob, just have to click Next... next... create...
I'm starting to realize that Github documentation isn't as noob friendly as AWS' is. Maybe deciding to automate CI using Github actions was the wrong choice. My non-technical brain is beginning to buckle under the weight of these goddamn yaml files.
Now got new problem: updating the S3 bucket isn't updating the site. Of course it's because the bloody Cloudfront distribution is still serving the old files - because it caches a response from S3 for 24 hours, so if I update my site within that timeframe, it's not going to show.
OK so it took longer to setup Cloudfront and the goddamn HTTPS than it did to get the website itself done. The Cloudfront distribution itself was easy enough to setup, so were the record sets and routing policies on Route 53. But it took a bit of muddling around in different parts of the AWS documentation repo (prob larger than the Vatican library at this point) to get the SSL certs requested, the domain names verified, and then the fucking CNAMEs added to the Cloudfront distribution. Voila my website has a nice padlock next to the address!
Celebration shortlived: Now I realize that all the links in the (now HTTPS secure) website are broken. FML.