Ricardo Cino

a software engineer with a passion for infrastructure and high availability applications. With years of experience in building business critical applications, a passion for infrastructure as code and building on Amazon Web Services.

TIL #1 - You can override basically anything in AWS CDK

Unique as I am I decided to start writing short blog posts about recent discoveries that suddenly clicked inside my head. For the first one; I have been working a lot with AWS CDK recently and decided that I wanted to contribute back to the AWS-CDK source code.

Temporarily working on a Windows Laptop

This has been quite the struggle, for the last 6 years, I’ve been working on a Macbook Pro/Air (m1) and right now I’m not able to do so. Due to a recent job change, I’m working on a Windows laptop until the new Macbook is in. At first, I was really curious to work on Windows again! …

Deploying your static website with a Github Action

Authenticate GitHub with OpenID Connect to deploy your CDK project to your AWS Organization

After making an AWS CDK project one of the first thing you will realize is that you don’t want to keep running cdk deploy to update your production environment. This is a fine way of working when you …

Static website distribution with AWS CloudFront

Having only written about PHP and Servers in the past I am making the switch to Serverless. This has been a long-time wish for me and finally realized this in a personal but also professional environment. That being said, I plan on writing a lot of new content on the blog purely around setting up …

Laravel Forge: setting it up the right way

For the last couple of years, I’ve been creating servers with Laravel Forge and normally I would advise against doing this (In favor of running containers or other load balanced tasks), but for the sake of giving advice to those who do want to do it, this is the first post I’ll spend time on it.

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First post again

Ah, we are back! Once again, this will be the third try of starting and actually updating a personal blog. I’m not exactly sure what I wrote down the last time but I’m planning the same.