Keep.✨SWE.🔥Soft.💩
Kevin Wang's blog on anything from cloud architecture, to serverless tech, to Kettle® Chips. Maybe some random musings here and there.
Build
I like tinkering
The world of open source software is like a big pile of LEGO® pieces. Building stuff and figuring things out is extremely fun. Here's a fun tiny project — the ripples mark where users of Bloc Stats have been.
Reflect
I try to write things
Heavy emphasis on the try part.
CloudFront Functions for an Efficient Cache Policy
Using CloudFront functions to apply some clever and sensible Cache-Control headers to a fully static Next.js app.
Kevin WangJuly 26, 2021Hexagonal Geospatial GPS Data Visualization App
Using Uber's H3, React Native, and DynamoDB to build a serverless system, end-to-end, to track and visualize my own GPS locations
Kevin WangMay 17, 2021Micro Frontends in NextJS with Webpack 5
Webpack 5's Module Federation makes creating micro frontends straightforward. It is also available in NextJS 10+ via an experimental feature flag and it makes integrating micro frontends a breeze. You first build an external micro frontend and deploy it as a "federated module" to your destination of choice. Then you update some configs in your NextJS application and Webpack does the rest. It's kind of magic 🦄.
Kevin WangMarch 26, 202125.33% Reduction in First Load JS with NextJS Dynamic Imports
A play by play in successfully reducing first load JS bundle size by 25% with code splitting via dynamic imports, and getting all NextJS pages into the green zone.
Kevin WangMarch 15, 2021JAMStack CI/CD with Lerna, NextJS, CDK, and Github Actions
Lerna, AWS CDK, and Github Actions make continuous integration and continuous delivery super easy. I figured out how to setup a CI/CD pipeline for my NextJS static apps backed by additional AWS infrastructure like Lambda functions, API Gateway, and Dynamo DB.
Kevin WangMarch 06, 2021Infrastructure as Code To Save Time
I found myself repeating some tedious tasks within the AWS console, week after week, and wanted to stop suffering. Infrasructure-as-code was the way to go but I knew I didn't want to learn Cloud Formation, and I was too lazy to pick up yet another 3rd party tool like Terraform.
Kevin WangMarch 01, 2021