DevOps engineers have a different perspective than developers, because they solve different problems. I know this because I've been in both roles. And I was reminded of this difference just last week. Thanks to the logging dashboard I described in my previous post, I realized that I had set up my API Gateway all wrong. From a developer's standpoint, it was totally fine. But when I took a look from a DevOps perspective, (and more importantly, an account owner's perspective,) I realized that my mistake could have cost me money.

For the past few weeks, I've been working on implementing basic login functionality to the site. It's coming along, but it's not quite feature complete, so I decided to take a break from that and work on the aesthetics of the site. That's definitely not my forte -- I'm a lousy web designer -- but I needed something to give my site just a little bit of personalization. So I added a home screen banner, a picture of me, and the requisite social media links. It won't win any awards, but it looks much better than it did before.