Jan Akerman
Senior Full Stack Developer @ Scott Logic. London, UK.
Dev - DevOps - Java - Javascript - Kubernetes
Cloud Formation Custom Resources - Ingesting Data into DynamoDB
24 March, 2019 - 9 min readThis post uses CloudFormation to create a DynamoDB table with a Lambda backed ‘Custom Resource’, to automatically ingest data into the…
Relational Data In DynamoDB
20 March, 2019 - 9 min readIf you’ve got relational data, then there is a fair argument that you should use a relational database. However, there’s still a lot of good…
Parallel Serverless Acceptance Tests
12 March, 2019 - 5 min readSo you’ve started a Serverless project. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thrown together a quick prototype which you’ve been deploying and…
Cloning Files From Git into a Docker Image
30 September, 2018 - 3 min readI came across a scenario recently whereby I had a hard requirement to create a fully ready Jenkins container. This meant baking in our job…
Leadership Election with Apache Curator [scottlogic.com]
13 March, 2018 - 7 min readThis post is going to look at how we can easily implement distributed leadership election using Apache Curator...
Thoughts on Jest Snapshots [scottlogic.com]
01 September, 2017 - 4 min readJest provides fast parallelised test running, with a familiar assertion syntax, built in code coverage, Snapshots and more. In this post, I’ll be investigating Snapshots and laying out some thoughts...