davethemaker

Works by David Eliason

Adding React to Vite

In my last post I used Vite to scaffold a basic app. Now to go over react.js and practice using that same scaffolding. I’m working off the tutorial found here : I added the function MyButton to App.tsx and it just works: We’re still running the app on the local server (localhost 5173) and you…

October 21, 2025
Time to learn Vite- Quick!

I’m shifting to (re)learning the development side of things, so will be getting myself back up to speed with the current tools being used. React had just come out when I first did my career shift into tech, so I’m glad to see that is still popular. Other things I’ll be getting myself up to…

October 20, 2025
AWS Lambda in action

Mostly I’ve been working with EC2 instances, but today I want to explore working in the serverless area with Lambda functions. I am hoping to work with data from a DB for data analysis. I’m going to be working through this as part of a tutorial, so I’m going to be including those resources –…

October 20, 2025
Prompt Engineering

Getting results from LLM – hard or easy? It’s easy, but it gets harder if you want more specific results. Getting predictable , consistent results that you could put in front of your customers- this is the hard part. Giving better context is what allows genAI to perform a specific task more easily. How you…

October 20, 2025
Managing Storage

I’m currently working on a project that uses a RDS MySQL database instance to store data, and via a script and the DBMS (database management system) retrieve data as a result of queries. There are various service solutions that AWS offers to approach a similar result: for the case of big data, then Athena might…

October 20, 2025
Next steps post-Solutions Architect

Previously, I have worked to build infrastructure using cloud services including virtual machines in networks using subnets, Internet Gateways, firewall configurations, S3 buckets, database, etc. While those are good, I will be shifting to a development focus for the next chapter- using tools like React, Vite, Azure SWA, Azure SQL server, node, TypeScript, etc. These…

October 17, 2025
CloudFormation, JMESPath, and more

In my last post, I explored provisioning AWS resources using CloudFormation, a change-up from my usual Terraform explorations. There’s a lot of similarities between the two approaches, which isn’t surprising. In this post, I’m going to practice working more with CloudFormation (CF). One of the tools that I was recommended to learn by someone in…

March 12, 2025
Automation with CloudFormation

I’m working hard to learn AWS services really well, and part of that journey has included becoming proficient with various automation tools and processes. For example, creating Python scripts, Bash scripts, or Terraform files to create that type of automation process that would ensure timely remediation and error-free implementations. In this post, I’m going to…

March 10, 2025
Tagged- You’re it! (or, Managing AWS Resources with Tagging)

As I’ve been exploring AWS and creating resources, I oftentimes pass over the optional tags, but as the number of resoures (and complexity of the projects) increases, I know it’s time to re-evaluate my strategy! So this is going to be an exercise in better working with tags to manage resources.. The scenario is that…

March 5, 2025
How CloudTrail Enhances AWS Log Management

CloudTrail is useful in logging API events, such as creating a VPC or instance, and also non-API events (such as logging in using the AWS Management Console), both management and data events. By default, management events are captured for 90 days, but if you want to capture data events (like s3 bucket or lambda), or…

March 5, 2025