The latest articles on DEV Community by Alex Daro (@al_daro). https://dev.to/al_daro https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F335513%2Fbf8217cd-e464-4a4b-a791-3bc3424f68a5.jpg https://dev.to/al_daro en Alex Daro Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:24:56 +0000 https://dev.to/al_daro/scheduling-website-content-with-javascript-and-aws-cloudwatch-3f5e https://dev.to/al_daro/scheduling-website-content-with-javascript-and-aws-cloudwatch-3f5e <p>Hi, devs! 🤓</p> <p>I'm getting close to wrapping the first round of development with my new side-project newclick.io so I figured I'd share some insight on how I built an API for <a href="https://www.alexdaro.com/writing/scheduling-website-content-with-javascript-and-aws-cloudwatch">scheduling website content</a>.</p> <p>To be honest I was having trouble finding the confidence to publish this. I wanted to write this in-depth, ground shattering post on scheduling Lambda functions with Amazon Cloudwatch but every time I sat down to write it seemed like an insurmountable task... Quite honestly it was bumming me out! So what I did instead was implemented some Tim Ferris voodoo logic and asked my self: "What would this look like if it were easy?". That was the thing that got me over the hump...</p> <p>I changed the opening sentence from "In this article, I'll describe everything that went into developing the newclick.io Scheduling API." -- to -- "In this article, I'll briefly describe some of the things that went into developing the newclick.io Scheduling API. "</p> <p>This helped me hone in what I wanted to say and get it out the door. Every blog post doesn't need to be a novel. A simple, easy to read how-to guide was good enough.</p> javascript aws