Dakota Lewallen

Hello 👋 I'm Dakota Lewallen, a systems-focused software engineer.

What I learn ends up here: as tools you can use, and as essays that make sense of it.

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  1. Save Time and Money by Shifting HIPAA Compliance Checks Left with CDK-Nag

    Make some easy money by checking sooner!

    2 min read#aws#cdk#compliance

  2. Re:Invent Reflections

    2024 Edition

    3 min read#aws#reinvent

  3. How to Migrate From CodeCommit

    A short guide on how to migrate away from CodeCommit

    3 min read#aws#git

  4. To Build or to Reuse? A CDK Question

    Learn how to make your architecture more flexible, by optionally reusing existing resources (Code included 😉).

    4 min read#aws#cdk

  5. Multi-region Deployments with CDK

    Code Included!

    4 min read#aws#cdk

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Featured post

Split Horizon DNS in AWS Made Easy!

A few months ago, I deployed my first private hosted zone to Route 53. Unbeknownst to me, I had set up a split horizon DNS scenario. My public zone was routing calls to my load balancer correctly. But every time my resources deployed in the VPC called into…

Jan 30, 2023 · 2 min read