Mavrick Laakso shares practical guides on CI/CD, AWS cloud, Ruby on Rails, and iOS testing. Explore tutorials on GitHub Actions, Terraform, Lambda optimization, and building scalable, cost-effective cloud solutions.
14 articles from this blog
A guide to fixing iOS UI test failures in GitHub Actions by adjusting deployment targets and ensuring simulator compatibility.
A developer's journey building a TV show recommendation engine using AWS SageMaker, from data collection to model deployment.
A guide to setting up efficient CI/CD pipelines for monorepos using CircleCI, covering project structure, configuration strategies, and common pitfalls.
A technical guide on optimizing Docker build times for Node.js AWS Lambda functions, focusing on caching and layer strategies.
A guide to decomposing AWS SAM API Gateway and Lambda binding declarations into nested stacks to improve codebase maintainability.
A developer investigates and solves random API timeouts by identifying and addressing slow AWS Lambda cold starts using metrics and X-Ray tracing.
Using AWS WAF to protect hobby projects from malicious traffic and prevent unexpected cloud billing costs.
Using Nix to create a consistent, reproducible development environment for Ruby on Rails projects, solving 'works on my machine' issues.
A guide to configuring and running Ruby on Rails system tests with headless Chrome in GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
Introduces the 'diagrams' Python library for creating consistent, version-controlled cloud architecture diagrams as code.
A guide to refactoring Terraform IaC to manage separate staging and production environments, comparing workspaces vs. modules.
A technical guide on fixing S3 bucket 403 errors to show proper 404 pages in Cloudfront without making the bucket public.
A developer details building a blog using Gatsby and AWS, focusing on DevOps principles, performance, SEO, and professional certification goals.
A guide to using TypeScript generics and mapped types to create type-safe API response handlers for dynamic data structures.
