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Aiden Vaines | May 29, 2025 | AI
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Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square

Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square

Aiden Vaines | Oct 22, 2024 | JavaScript Cloudflare Serverless
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Leeds Digital Festival: AI: Stop Talking, Start Doing!

Leeds Digital Festival: AI: Stop Talking, Start Doing!

Aiden Vaines | Sep 18, 2024 | Talks
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Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

Aiden Vaines | Feb 25, 2024 | Terraform CICD AWS
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A janky python alternative to Timeular using an Aqara cube from AliExpress

A janky python alternative to Timeular using an Aqara cube from AliExpress

Aiden Vaines | Feb 20, 2023 | Python Jank
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Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Aiden Vaines | Jan 11, 2023 | Terraform AWS
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How I See Troubleshooting

How I See Troubleshooting

Aiden Vaines | Oct 17, 2022 | DevOps
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An odd AWS EFS & Terraform AWS pagination issue

An odd AWS EFS & Terraform AWS pagination issue

Aiden Vaines | Sep 20, 2022 | AWS Terraform
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Finding the most and least frequent list elements in JavaScript

Finding the most and least frequent list elements in JavaScript

Aiden Vaines | Feb 3, 2022 | JavaScript
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Triggering a Cloudflare Cache Purge from S3 Object Events

Triggering a Cloudflare Cache Purge from S3 Object Events

Aiden Vaines | Sep 18, 2021 | AWS Cloudflare

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AWS User Group: Why you are using Lambda wrong - Comparing monolithic vs microservice architectures for AWS API workloads

My colleague Dan Yip and I will be talking at the Leeds AWS User Group on ‘Why you are doing …

Aiden Vaines | Jun 16, 2023 | Talks
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My obligatory GPT post

Seemingly everyone must now have a blog post about using ChatGPT, lets get on that band waggon.

Aiden Vaines | Mar 29, 2023 | AI Bash
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A janky python alternative to Timeular using an Aqara cube from AliExpress

This little project stemmed from me seeing what looked like a fun idea but being a tight-arsed …

Aiden Vaines | Feb 20, 2023 | Python Jank
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Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

For a long time now most container based workloads and projects I have worked with have needed EC2 …

Aiden Vaines | Jan 11, 2023 | Terraform AWS
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How I See Troubleshooting

When I’ve been involved in an incident or dragged in to one of those “if we get enough …

Aiden Vaines | Oct 17, 2022 | DevOps
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An odd AWS EFS & Terraform AWS pagination issue

I know the AWS CLI is different to the AWS CDK used by the provider and the two are not the same.

Aiden Vaines | Sep 20, 2022 | AWS Terraform
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Finding the most and least frequent list elements in JavaScript

The Problem I love working through the Advent of Code puzzles, this year I decided it was a good …

Aiden Vaines | Feb 3, 2022 | JavaScript
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Triggering a Cloudflare Cache Purge from S3 Object Events

The Challenge I’ve have been looking at some cost and performance improvements in some of my …

Aiden Vaines | Sep 18, 2021 | AWS Cloudflare
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CI/CD Agnostic, mono-repo pipelines for Firebase (Hosting, Database & Functions)

Introduction I have been trying to teach myself how to build a simple Node.

Aiden Vaines | Jun 1, 2020 | CICD GCP JavaScript

Starting with Terraform: Taxing, Tangled & Troublesome

One of the first tools I picked up walking in to the DevOps world was Terraform, I found it a bit …

Aiden Vaines | Oct 19, 2019 | Terraform AWS
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