Not All AI Builders Are Doing the Same Work
An opinion on the current landscape of what being a builder looks like in the ever evolving age of AI.
Danielle's Blog
Danielle's Blog
Latest posts
EventBridge Scheduler DLQ'd My Successful Invokes
EventBridge Scheduler kept DLQing successful invokeAgentRuntime calls. The cause was a ~30 second timeout I couldn't find in the docs. Here's the async AgentCore fix.
Signal and Noise
The AI hype is loud. Here's what I think actually matters underneath it.
The In Between
A Pride month reflection on identity, labels, and learning to just let things be what they are.
Getting Claude Code off my laptop and onto shared compute
How I got Claude Code onto shared compute so broken deploys don't wait on one person.
Good DevOps Engineers Leave Trails Not Gates
Why the best DevOps engineers focus on clearing paths instead of guarding gates, and how to choose enablement over gatekeeping in platform and infrastructure roles.
I Built a Bookmarklet for Hillsboro Hops Fans
A browser bookmarklet that exports Hillsboro Hops games to your calendar
I've Worked for Some Bad Bosses. Here's What I Look For Now.
Three interview signals that reveal a bad manager before you accept the offer, based on lessons I learned the hard way.
I Rewrote My Step Function as a Durable Function
My journey rewriting and old project to learn about Lambda durable functions
Let an AI Agent Do Your Job Searching
An AI agent that monitors your dream companies for open roles and emails you the results.
A Strands Agent Template (For the Impatient)
A Template for Deploying Strands Agents on AWS
Use Social Media Mindfully
Danielle's approach to social media in 2026
How You Do It Matters
How You Do It Matters
Learning Outside Your Specialty | Why I Got a Kubernetes Cert
On learning K8s as a serverless developer and why specialization doesn't mean staying in one lane forever
Most Valuable When Least Visible | The Security Paradox
Security -- The Most Important Work You’ll Never See in a Sprint Demo
AWS Fargate on a Budget
AWS Fargate on a Budget
Ephemeral Jobs Longer than the Lambda Timeout
Ephemeral Jobs Longer than the Lambda Timeout
Playdate Review
Playdate review
Devs are Not the Target Market for AI
Devs are Not the Target Market for AI
I'm Worried About Generative AI
I'm Worried About Generative AI
Tips for Getting Started in Cloud
Tips for Getting Started in Cloud
The Collab Lab Team 66 Recap
The Collab Lab Team 66 Recap
How To Become An AWS Hero
How To Become An AWS Hero
Dear New Code School Grad
Dear New Code School Grad
The Serverless Mindset and Infrastructure as Code
The Serverless Mindset and Infrastructure as Code
EventBridge Emoji Event Patterns
EventBridge Emoji Event Patterns
My Personal Blog Site's CI/CD
My Personal Blog Site's CI/CD
Career Reflections
Career Reflections
AWS Speakers Directory - Adding AI Functionality
AWS Speakers Directory - Adding AI Functionality
The Problem with "It Works on My Computer"
The Problem with "It Works on My Computer"
Serverless Weather Reporting with AWS Step Functions and CDK
Serverless Weather Reporting with AWS Step Functions and CDK
Improved git workflows with graphite.dev
Improved git workflows with graphite.dev
AWS Application Composer, the App Building Future We Need
AWS Application Composer, the App Building Future We Need
Making the Switch - Software Development on Pop!_OS
Making the Switch - Software Development on Pop!_OS
Are You Paying Attention?
Are You Paying Attention?
Upgrading to CDK v2 for Typescript
Upgrading to CDK v2 for Typescript
My Top Three AWS re:Invent 2021 Announcements
My Top Three AWS re:Invent 2021 Announcements
On Home and Remote Work
On Home and Remote Work
Event Driven Background Processes
Event Driven Background Processes
Routing on the Edge
Routing on the Edge
The Secret to Getting More Done
The Secret to Getting More Done
Build a GraphQL API with TypeScript, AWS AppSync, and CDK
Build a GraphQL API with TypeScript, AWS AppSync, and CDK
You Are More Than Your Tech Choices
You Are More Than Your Tech Choices
Upgrading to the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3
Upgrading to the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3
5 Things I Learned from Advent of Code
5 Things I Learned from Advent of Code
Using GitHub Actions to Build a Self Updating README
Using GitHub Actions to Build a Self Updating README
Dangers of Console-Driven Development
Dangers of Console-Driven Development
Computer Science for Everyone - Queues
Computer Science for Everyone - Queues
Lambda Layer Update
Lambda Layer Update
Building My Own Jamstack
Building My Own Jamstack