One aspect I did not include in My Personal Ecosystem is the way I use AWS Lambda to perform certain tasks using serverless code. I will start off by saying that I do not think serverless code is a good idea as a general purpose solution. It has been my experience that such solutions tend to be more expensive than running a pod in a cluster I already have in place. However, it is sometimes useful for certain specific cases. I have the following Lambdas in my setup:

I want to document for myself and for anyone who might be interested (probably mostly me, but maybe a prospective employer will find this interesting) the current state of my personal ecosystem of software, devops, and what I consider state of the art within my personal projects. This article is primarily concerned with ops, but will touch on aspects of software development too.

I will have to divide this up into major bits. I build a lot of stuff for myself, just in dribs and drabs of spare time I steal from when I probably ought to be sleeping or playing video games. So, this is a list of what I have going and how I make it go. Let’s start by listing the products themselves. Then, I’ll describe the overall architecture of my system. Finally, I’ll break down how each project fits into that architecture.