🚀 First blog post of 2026: The CDK Starter v2 is out Going from a basic CDK setup to production ready infra shouldn’t take hours of research and glue. I’ve updated my AWS CDK Starter to give you a clean, tested foundation so you can focus on building your app.

Did you catch Zeno's (Resend CEO) presentation at Supabase Select? Fun fact, he created Dracula while in the hospital 🐐 www.youtube.com/live/GbBGYNN...

It's 2025, and I'm creating a "lambda warmer" function, ugh..

🚀 It’s here: Visualize your CDK Diffs directly on your PRs! Powered by the new CDK Express Pipeline GitHub Diff Action -> github.com/rehanvdm/cdk... Key features: ⚡ Run diffs in parallel to save time 📑 Collect outputs from multiple stacks and add them neatly to your PR description ...

What is stopping you from having CDK Diffs on Pull Requests like this?

Did you know your Lambdas can be throttled even though they are under the account concurrency? This happens if the sum of their requests per second exceeds 10x the account concurrency.

Earlier this week, I had the great opportunity to speak with students at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) about AWS Cloud and the Serverless mindset. We explored real-world use cases, career paths in cloud, and how Serverless is changing the way we build applications.

The CDK Express Pipeline GitHub README was getting out of hand, so I've created a documentation website to organize it better! Is it perfect? No, but done is better than perfect. rehanvdm.github.io/cdk-express-...

TIL that when GitHub does a rebase, commits will have different hashes 🤦 Not great when you are promoting assets from lower branches/envs and make use of the commit hash. docs.github.com/en/repositor...

🚀 Have you seen last week's CDK Express Pipeline changelog? Here's what's new: ✨ Deployment order now visualized with a Mermaid diagram ✨ New option to deploy stages sequentially ✨ Individual stack deployment order now displayed in [brackets] 👉 Check it out: github.com/rehanvdm/cdk... #AWS #CDK

Have you seen these open source CDK gems (no particular order)? ⭐️ cdk-sops-secrets – CDK construct to sync SOPS-encrypted secrets into AWS Secrets Manager github.com/dbsystel/cdk...

Two new features for CDK Express Pipeline. 1. Deploy Stages Sequentially within a Wave 2. The order of operation now indicates what stack will be deployed based on your stack selector (the command in the second screenshot targeted was: `cdk deploy 'Wave2_*'`) github.com/rehanvdm/cdk...

New blog post 🚀 If you're using AWS CDK Pipelines but struggling with its complexity and slow performance, I've written a detailed guide on migrating to CDK Express Pipeline. rehanvdm.com/blog/migrate... #AWS #CDK #DevOps

Finding a bad behaving SQL query is like a murder mystery and who doesn't love that

📘The AWS CDK Express Pipeline library helps you create simple and fast deployment pipelines using the AWS CDK. This new tutorial shows you how to set up and manage deployments with cdk-express-pipeline on GitHub. rehanvdm.com/blog/cdk-exp...

FEATURE REQUEST - I actually want something AI `@slack what have I been up to last week and what still needs attention`

Check it out, this time I am in front of the camera not behind it 🙂 talking about CDK Express Pipelines an alternative to CDK Pipelines. Spoiler alert Express is faster, less opinionated and runs anywhere, even locally!

Have you seen the AWS Data Landing Zone CDK Construct? It creates the groundwork/platform enabling the rest of your teams https://datalandingzone.com/ Do you see the value in using a Landing Zone? If so what are you using today?

If everything is a priority, then nothing is. - Me after this week 🥲

I need to get back to blogging this year, I have been having too much fun in builder land. First post, is about two new CDK Constructs I published to help connect Lambdas to the Tailscale network. Blogging about building is still considered blogging right? 😅 https://rehanvdm.com/blog/cdk-lambda-t…

We get it already!

Astro had a big 2024! "Astro started life as a static site generator, but in recent years it has actively expanded its server-side functionality, now capable of building sites with dynamic content like e-commerce sites without sacrificing UX."

> If you don’t remove the resources, enrollment into the new OU will fail, somewhat spectacularly. 😂 "somewhat spectacularly" The docs calling out that you really screwed up, pitty you only get to read it after the screw-up

🚀 New Features in the Data Landing Zone (DLZ) CDK Construct: 🔐 IAM Management: Manage Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies effortlessly. 📦 Account Suspension: Move accounts to the Suspended OU with ease. 🧹 Resource Cleanup: Account resource cleanup with AWS Nuke.

✅ If I was starting out from day 1 in the industry again, these are some of the core rules I would live by personally (🧵):

And now we wait

I mean 😐

🌟 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 #16 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐮𝐭! This week our Serverless expert is AWS Hero @rehanvdm.bsky.social, and the spotlight falls on AWS Hero @zachjonesnoel.bsky.social! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/16-oss-fra... Please subscribe & share! 🔔 #AWS #ListenToTheHeroes

Ever wanted to use AWS CDK Pipelines but found it too opinionated, yet still wanted the power of Waves and Stages? Now you can, with ✨ CDK Express Pipeline ✨, you get the flexibility of building your pipeline with no restrictions. ⭐ Check it out:

Have you seen CloudGlance? It's a free desktop app I built to help consultants manage multiple AWS accounts, streamline logins, simplify Bastion host port forwarding, automate security group IP whitelisting, and view CloudFormation stacks across regions. Check it out here: https://cloudglance.dev/

🔍 Looking for a Google Analytics alternative? Have you seen Serverless Website Analytics, I built it to be a serverless, cost-efficient, and privacy-focused solution for website analytics. 👉 Try the live demo: https://demo.serverless-website-analytics.com/ ✅ CDK Construct allows easy deploying

This is the most CDK I have written in a very long time!

✨ INTRODUCING ✨ AWS Data Landing Zone (DLZ). The DLZ is a CDK construct designed to accelerate AI and data-related projects. It provides an opinionated Landing Zone, laying the foundation for a multi-account AWS strategy, so you can focus on delivering applications. 🧵 https://datalandingzone.com/

"Simplicity requires discipline." - Dr. Werner Vogels. This is now one of my favorite quotes It perfectly captures the mindset needed to tackle complex systems. Here are some other key takeaways: 🧵

I forgot what an absolute drag CodePipeline can be 😩

TIL `curl` has built-in support to generate AWS SigV4 headers so you can do AWS API calls with a single command 😮

You can not transmit data faster than the speed of light. AWS - Hold my beer 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=COo3...

Keeping up with AWS news is a full-time job. I started a GIST here gist.github.com/rehanvdm/91f... to track all the noteworthy re:Invent 2024 launches. Is there anything I missed? Or what has been your favorite so far?

Did not see this one coming www.pulumi.com/blog/aws-cdk... 😲

Aurora DSQL feels like Postgres but drives like serverless - Get the full scoop in my latest blog 👇 blog.datachef.co/aurora-dsql-...

One more PostgreSQL-compatible service in AWS: Aurora DSQL Don't panic, here is a list to help you choose your managed database for PostgreSQL applications dev.to/franckpachot...

Aurora DSQL feels like Postgres but drives like serverless - Get the full scoop in my latest blog 👇 blog.datachef.co/aurora-dsql-...

Some pretty good improvements here aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/im... but expect to pay almost 3x more for them to move into the "Essentials" plan + don't let the lower free MAU 10k (down from 50k) catch you out in new accounts

AWS Cognito is the first service to bring a pricing tier list into the Portal?

Here are ~40 Pre:Invent launches that made my radar, did I miss anything significant? What has been your favourite so far? gist.github.com/rehanvdm/91f...

Some pretty good improvements here aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/im... but expect to pay almost 3x more for them to move into the "Essentials" plan + don't let the lower free MAU 10k (down from 50k) catch you out in new accounts

AWS Cognito is the first service to bring a pricing tier list into the Portal?