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Building an AWS + Snowflake Landing Zone with Terraform: Lessons from My CI/CD Review

Every analytics platform has an unglamorous foundation: the raw/landing tier where source data first lands before anything clever happens to it. It's easy to click that together by hand once.

• Terraform used to build AWS + Snowflake landing zone with five child modules
• CI/CD pipeline introduced to gate changes and ensure infrastructure safety
• Three critical design gaps identified in Terraform code review

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X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts

X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.

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CSS-Only Custom Elements

There's a quiet trend picking up steam in the web components world: developers using custom-element-shaped markup that never calls customElements.define() .

• CSS-only custom elements use tag names and styles without JavaScript.
• Benefits include minimal JavaScript cost, no bundle, and semantic tag names.
• Example: CSS variables customize a badge component with variants.

2h ago ·dev.to

Find the AWS Resources Nobody Is Using, and What They Cost You

This article provides a step by step guide to auditing an AWS account for resources nothing is using, pricing each finding from the AWS Price List API, and cleaning up the ones you choose.

• Zombiescan tool scans AWS for unused resources
• Identifies unattached network interfaces, idle load balancers, orphaned EBS snapshots
• Generates detailed report of most expensive unused resources

2h ago ·dev.to