UPDATE: As of July 6, 2021, it seems that the AWS Amplify team has updated the tool to support secrets. The official announcement is here: AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda...
Freakonomics has a great interview with Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors that provides some insights into what it means to lead and what it takes to innovate. Sometimes, it’s as simple as moving barriers out of the way....
From the outside looking in, it is easy to think that innovation is about the technology. One important lesson I’ve learned over the last decade is that more often than not, innovation is about business and process models which enable...
I came across an article on McDonald’s plans to make their drive-thrus faster: McDonald’s has already made improvement in its drive-thrus. Over the past few years, it’s sped up the drive-thru line by about 30 seconds, thanks in part to...
A Chance Encounter Some time around late 2017, in the midst of a power outage, I was checking the outage map for my utility provider and noticed something interesting: the web page served was an HTML page. Now, it is...
I’ve written before about the multitude of ways that teams end up failing themselves. In The Math of Mediocrity, I explored how we temper our expectations of excellence when our wildest ideas and imagination meet the molasses of reality. In...
If you’re looking to try out GraphQL with Azure Functions and CosmosDB, look no further. I wanted to take the time to put together a fully functioning sandbox project which you can download and tinker with as there are a...
Perhaps I’ve been swept up by the greater trend towards minimalism. There is of course the Tiny House movement which runs counter to decades of ever larger McMansions; rather then focusing on sheer volume, the Tiny House movement focuses on...
Previously, I’ve explored automated UI testing with LeapWork, which is a super powerful tool that can empower non-technical QA team members to automate complex scenarios. Today, I’m evaluating another tool called Taiko which is, in some ways, even more productive...
If you’re building Azure Functions, you generally have two options when it comes to implementing authentication and authorization: Use the App Service Authentication integration which is great if you are using one of the standard identity providers (Azure AD, Microsoft...