Stories 70mph With No Seat-belt: Pt 1 A few years ago I had the happy coincidence of being taken (read dragged) to a Salsa class by a good friend [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-mambwe-5319954a/?originalSubdomain=uk]. That class was the first in a series of ways in which Dance would enter into and change my life
Ideas CloudFormation Custom Resources - Why and When All good solutions start with a problem :). Imagine you'd like to deploy an application as a CloudFormation stack and part of its infrastructure includes s3 for storage, some contents of which you'd like to be replicated to another region. The storage part of the application might
Thoughts Featured Black History Month, Easy as ABC As a Nigerian, born and raised on the African continent, Black History Month did not always make sense to me. As I spent more time making a home for myself outside the country of my birth (there's my answer to the classic "but where are you really
Stories Featured Misadventures Have you ever heard the wind whisper your name? “Oke . . . ” In the deafening silence of my dream, it was a very welcome change. I hear the gentle whisper twice more before it suddenly becomes a howl. “OKE!” The pessimist in me says I’m half-awake. “OKE!!”. Now I’m awake.
