Jeroen Reijn is a Cloud Solutions Architect and AWS Community Builder from the Netherlands, writing about AWS, Serverless, DevOps, Java, and cloud engineering best practices.
111 articles from this blog
Explains Amazon ECS Express Mode's automated infrastructure provisioning and how to implement it using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CDK or Terraform.
Learn how to extend monitoring for Windows EC2 instances by deploying and configuring the Amazon CloudWatch Agent using AWS CDK.
A technical guide on setting up AWS Budget notifications using SNS and the AWS CDK, covering common pitfalls and configuration steps.
A guide to implementing multi-account DNS management for AWS environments using AWS CDK and Route 53 hosted zones.
Summary of AWS re:Invent 2024 Day 4, covering Werner Vogels' keynote on simplicity vs. complexity and technical sessions on serverless and DynamoDB.
A recap of AWS re:Invent 2024 Day 3, covering sessions on advanced DynamoDB data modeling and key AI/Data announcements from Amazon Bedrock.
A recap of AWS re:Invent 2024 Day 2, covering the CEO keynote, new AI/cloud service announcements, and technical sessions on serverless and SQS.
A first-hand account of AWS re:Invent 2024 Day 1, covering sessions on AWS Backup, Control Tower, Systems Manager, and serverless best practices.
A developer shares insights and practical advice on using Java with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Infrastructure as Code.
A guide on using AWS X-Ray with Quarkus to monitor and debug serverless Lambda functions, including setup and custom instrumentation.
A developer details the serverless architecture evolution of an AWS Community Builders blog content Twitter bot, built with Lambda, EventBridge, and DynamoDB.
Learn how to use the 'act' CLI tool to locally test and debug GitHub Actions workflows, speeding up development.
Introduces cdk-nag, an open-source tool for automated security and compliance checks in AWS CDK infrastructure-as-code projects.
Compares Java Redis drivers Jedis and Lettuce for Amazon ElastiCache, focusing on failover handling, performance, and configuration.
A technical analysis of selecting a Java Redis driver (Jedis) for Amazon ElastiCache, covering architecture, performance, and lessons learned.
Explains how to use AWS CDK Custom Resources to trigger a Lambda function immediately after deployment for tasks like database seeding.
Guide to configuring auto-scaling for AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency using AWS CDK, covering setup and custom metrics.
A technical guide on creating a simple API stub for testing using AWS API Gateway, Lambda, and S3 to serve static JSON data.
A technical blog archive detailing posts on AWS services, cloud development, Java, DevOps, and software engineering practices from 2010 to 2025.
A technical guide on deploying Spring Boot applications to AWS App Runner using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild for CI/CD.
