Hey, I’m Louis McCormack

I'm an engineering leader based in London. I'm passionate about distributed systems, building teams and helping people grow. This is my blog-cum-portfolio.

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The Return of Boring Tech

The Return of Boring Tech

In times of economic woe, an unlikely champion lumbers into view - Boring Tech

Performance Testing at Space Ape Games

Performance Testing at Space Ape Games

How we implemented mobile performance testing at Space Ape Games

Accidental vs Essential Complexity

Accidental vs Essential Complexity

What can a paper from 1987 teach us about building software today?

Go Lambda provided.al2 runtime with multiple binaries

Go Lambda provided.al2 runtime with multiple binaries

How to migrate to the provided.al2 runtime, whilst retaining support for multiple binaries.

Introducing Runson.cloud

Introducing Runson.cloud

Runson.cloud is a service that allows people to discover which public cloud a given website is hosted on...

Running Applications on Fargate Graviton2

Running Applications on Fargate Graviton2

I recently discovered just how easy it is to compile and run applications for Graviton 2 chips on AWS Fargate...

Bursting to Lambda

Bursting to Lambda

An attempt to use AWS Lambdas to soak up spikes in traffic...

Delivering Secure Webapps on S3

Delivering Secure Webapps on S3

I was lucky enough to have a blog post featured on AWS' Game Tech Blog...

Custom AWS Config Rules

Custom AWS Config Rules

All organisations, regardless of size, will have some sort of Policy. This post explains how to enforce that Policy using AWS Config...