A year has passed and I have not done much update on the website due to work. One thing I have noticed that I have left my website running on AWS instance so of course the monthly bill is over $100 a month. It was great for dynamic website using KeystoneJS running on NodeJS and MongoDB as my Content Management System. Since the site does not require much more I am switching it to simple static pages that can be render before hand which allow faster content delivery just using AWS S3 and Cloudfront without origin servers.
Of course I did a quick Google search! I found a post at allthingsdistributed.com by Werner Vogels (CTO AWS) that talks about how to dynamically generate contents into AWS S3 buckets. Instead of building it from ground up, I stumble on a framework that was already built 3 years ago. It only took an hour to get everything setup using this starter guide at Jekyll.
Just like any product engineer, I wanted to find more than just using a standard template and again it was only a Google search away. I discover [Jekyll Themes] that has design themes readily available. With this new direction, I will be posting very often this year on my Aquaponics Project which I just kicked off with seeding and germination. I will post the “how” and “lessons learned” along the way on my results.