What I’m currently working on: personal projects, learning, open source, etc.

In Progress

• Tomasz Łakomy’s Egghead course Build an App with the AWS Cloud Development Kit
• Reading the Rust Book in its entirety

Up Next

• Systems Programming with Rust

  • Specifically looking at this guide, the PingCAP Talent Plan

• DynamoDB single table design, streams, etc.

  • DynamoDB Office Hours | Online banking service model with Rick Houlihan
  • Alex DeBrie resources
  • Building aggregations with DynamoDB Streams

• Set up a simple landing page for helloworldless.com

  • Ideally, I’d like to see how far I can push infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK for DNS, static hosting, and continuous integration, all in one repository

Completed

• Spring Boot Open Source Contribution

  • Improve sanitization for list of URI types

• Basic CI/CD pipeline (deploy on commit) for davidagood.com

  • Uses AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline

  • Completed follow-ups:

    • Wipe S3 bucket via Lambda instead of in CodeBuild buildspec post-build step
    • Invalidate CloudFront distribution via Lambda as part of the pipeline

• Twitter Unfollower Alerts

  • Plenty of follow-ups mentioned in the readme

Would Like to Do One Day

• Revisit Haskell, specifically looking at Practical Haskell: A Real World Guide to Programming
• Revisit Ruby/Rails
• Revisit RedwoodJS

• Create a proof of concept of a declarative, cache-aside in Java, e.g. using RxJava

  • Always wanted to code this up after seeing 1000 lines of imperative code, every single method repeating the same boilerplate: if key in cache return value, else get key from database, update cache, and return value

• Python + Machine Learning

  • Good tweet from @svpino about how to go about it here
• Build something with Vert.x or Reactive Spring