Brian Beach is a developer advocate, speaker, and author leading the Developer Experience community at AWS, helping teams improve productivity with infrastructure as code, DevOps, and generative AI.
142 articles from this blog
A technical guide on using JMeter to replay recorded database queries from an audit log for load testing, specifically targeting Amazon Redshift.
A guide to creating simple demo applications using phpinfo and ASP.NET tracing for showcasing infrastructure like load balancers and API gateways.
Explores multi-tenant Elasticsearch/OpenSearch isolation models, comparing one index per tenant vs. document-level security with performance tests.
Explores case-sensitivity handling in Aurora PostgreSQL, comparing native collations with the CITEXT extension for case-insensitive operations.
Final part of a series on optimizing AWS Lambda cold starts for ASP.NET, covering advanced techniques like burst CPU usage and pre-JIT compilation.
A technical guide documenting a multi-cloud blog deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Explores techniques to reduce AWS Lambda cold start times for ASP.NET, focusing on ReadyToRun compilation and optimizing secrets fetching.
Analyzing AWS Lambda cold starts for ASP.NET, exploring initialization delays and benchmarking performance for serverless applications.
A guide to building Linux Docker containers from Visual Studio on an EC2 Windows instance by configuring a remote Docker daemon on a Linux server.
A technical guide on configuring a VPN tunnel between a UniFi Security Gateway (USG) and AWS, covering both static and dynamic routing with BGP.
A workshop guide for migrating monolithic .NET Framework applications to microservices on AWS using the Strangler Fig Pattern.
A technical guide on how to fix Mac's Mission Control after it was disabled by the Pearson OnVUE online exam proctoring software.
Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot performance in .NET applications on AWS using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and other tools.
A developer investigates how AWS, Azure, and GCP handle trailing slashes in URIs differently, causing image loading issues in a multi-cloud blog setup.
A developer details their project to host a static blog across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Route 53 for load balancing, driven by a desire to learn multi-cloud platforms.
A technical guide on configuring the robots meta tag for SEO in Hugo static sites, focusing on the Ananke theme.
Learn how AWS services like CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Config, and CloudTrail help implement governance, compliance, and audit lifecycles.
A hands-on workshop on using AWS Systems Manager to manage Windows servers at scale, covering automation, patching, and inventory.
AWS re:Invent 2019 session on using AWS CloudFormation, OpsWorks, and Systems Manager for high-velocity infrastructure as code and service delivery.
A guide to configuring Hugo server's baseURL to work correctly with AWS Cloud9's preview proxy for local development.
