# jimmydqv.com

> Tech blog by Jimmy Dahlqvist, AWS Serverless Hero. Writing about AWS, serverless architecture, event-driven systems, CDK, and cloud-native development.

## About the Author

Jimmy Dahlqvist is a Principal Cloud Architect and AWS Serverless Hero based in Sweden. He has been building on AWS since 2015 and speaks at conferences worldwide. He leads an AWS User Group and serves as a Lead AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert.

## Topics Covered

- AWS serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions)
- AWS CDK and Infrastructure as Code
- Event-driven architecture and design patterns
- Authentication and authorization (Cognito, Verified Permissions, ABAC)
- IoT on AWS
- GenAI and AI agents with Amazon Bedrock
- Conference speaking and AWS re:Invent guides

## Content

The blog contains 64+ technical posts, available in multiple languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese).

### Recent Posts

- [Building a CloudFormation macro](https://jimmydqv.com/cloudformation-macros/): 

- [Creating this serverless blog](https://jimmydqv.com/create-a-serverless-blog/): 

- [Introducing Lambda Layers](https://jimmydqv.com/introduce-lambda-layers/): 

- [Creating a simple Alexa skill](https://jimmydqv.com/create-an-alexa-skill/): 

- [This is not the bastion host you are looking for](https://jimmydqv.com/this-is-not-the-bastion/): 

- [AWS CDK - First impression last](https://jimmydqv.com/aws-cdk-first-impression/): 

- [Temporary credentials, made easy](https://jimmydqv.com/temporary-credentials/): 

- [Vending Machine for AWS accounts.](https://jimmydqv.com/account_vending_machine/): 

- [GitHub Self hosted runners in AWS - part 1 - Fargate](https://jimmydqv.com/github-runners-in-fargate-part-one/): 

- [GitHub Self hosted runners in AWS - part 2 - EC2](https://jimmydqv.com/github-runners-ec2-part-two/): 

- [AWS Lambda Extensions](https://jimmydqv.com/lambda-extensions-internal-part-1/): 

- [A year as AWS certification SME](https://jimmydqv.com/a-year-as-aws-certification-sme/): 

- [A tale of an CloudFormation import](https://jimmydqv.com/tale-of-cloudformation-import/): 

- [CloudFront deployments with Lambda@Edge](https://jimmydqv.com/cloudfront-deploy-with-lambda-at-edge/): How to do blue/green deployments to Amazon CloudFront using Lambda@Edge

- [Secure your API Gateway APIs with Auth0](https://jimmydqv.com/secure-api-gw-with-auth0/): How to secure your Amazon API Gateway REST based api using Auth0 and API Gateway JWT Authorizer.


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