John Crawley | Former Cloud Support Engineer @ Amazon, Indie Developer

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

Xcode 26: Feeling Inspired

After watching this video released by Apple from WWDC25, the updated version of Xcode looks like a good upgrade both in design and with productivity with new features in the new MacOS (Tahoe 26): I feel very inspired to develop a small iOS application either for a production application or just a demonstration of experimenting […]

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AWShorts Episode 1 Released !

Yesterday, I released the first episode of AWShorts (AWS Shorts). I have made a LinkedIn post about it along with mentioning that each episode will be uploaded to the GitHub repository for the series where anyone can check the code or workflow etc. I want to try make an episode (hopefully) every week or two but not […]

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Making A YouTube Series – AWS Shorts

I want to start making a YouTube series of relatively short videos (10 minutes or less… ideally 5 minutes or a little under that) just using AWS to build/deploy projects using container services (i.e: ECS / EKS), maybe other AWS services down the road too but the focus now is on container based services since […]

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Codename Lost Caves: An Idea In The Making

Background [Codename: “Lost Caves”] is currently an unannounced project that I want to work on this year. I’m currently exploring the idea of the project, the scope of the project and creating the documentation to build a prototype to test it with participants that’ll provide feedback and if the feedback is successful regarding the project […]

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My Personal Website Is Released Today!

Release Day! Today (5th of May 2025) I’m releasing my personal website to the internet that includes information about me like hobbies/interests, my career history, projects I’ve worked on and a blog for myself to make posts either about projects in current development, thoughts and more. I will be working on the backend and frontend […]

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