PinnedRob Lauer·Feb 16, 2025Rob’s Rule of Three: How Leaders Make Decisions When Everything’s on FireSimple rules for managing the daily crisis.
Rob Lauer·May 5Senior Developer — NotLately I’ve noticed the analog of grade inflation in the IT world. Senior Developers titles.
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyRob Lauer·Mar 23Idempotent AWS Resource Creation — with tools you have laying around the houseCreating AWS Resources…let me count the ways
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyRob Lauer·Mar 17Stop Writing Release Notes: Accelerate with AIThe Problem: Generating Release Notes is Boring
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyRob Lauer·Feb 23RIP nginx — Long Live Apachenginx is dead. Not metaphorically dead. Not “falling out of favor” dead. Actually, officially, put-a-date-on-it dead.A response icon1A response icon1
Rob Lauer·Nov 14, 2025Go Ahead ‘make’ My Day (Part III)This is the last in a 3 part series on . You can catch up by reading our introduction and dissection of Scriptlets.
Rob Lauer·Mar 13, 2025How to Fix Apache 2.4 Broken Directory RequestsI’m currently re-architecting my non-profit accounting SaaS ( Treasurer’s Briefcase) to use Docker containers for a portable development…
Rob Lauer·Feb 17, 2025Hosting a Secure Static Website with S3 and CloudFront: Part IIICutting through the confusion of private CloudFront static sites…
Rob Lauer·Dec 11, 2024Focusing on writing " comments" in your code is not an appropriate use of your time.One of my favorite tips for developers is "read the code". Too many developers fall into the trap of becoming lost when they don't…