Emmanuel Isenah

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NigeriaJoined October 2023

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Hi! I'm Emmanuel, a full-stack developer based in Nigeria. I'm all about React, TypeScript, and Next.js.

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EIEmmanuel Isenahblog.emmanuelisenah.comJun 14 · 12 min read

Leaving Vercel for AWS Amplify

At Heartbeat, we run everything on AWS - queues, database, object storage, email, DNS, you name it. Everything except our frontend hosting, which, for a long time, lived on Vercel. Why? Next.js. If yo

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EIEmmanuel Isenahblog.emmanuelisenah.comJan 27 · 10 min read

A better way to deploy to EC2

So you’ve got an EC2 instance you want to ship updates to it. How do you go about it? A lot of us start with the classics of SSH into the box, git pull and building on the server. While someone with more experience might build in CI runner like GitHu...

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EIEmmanuel Isenahblog.emmanuelisenah.comSep 20, 2025 · 4 min read

How I passed my DVA-CO2

NOTE: This is a cross-post I made on r/awscertifications. My result just came 12 hours after the exam and I passed! I'm really happy and thought I should share my experience on how I prepared. For studying, I combined Stephane Maarek's and Adrian Ca...

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EIEmmanuel Isenahblog.emmanuelisenah.comAug 9, 2025 · 14 min read

Different ways to conditionally provision a CDK resource

So over the weekend, I had the brilliant idea to offload the grunt work of setting up a WireGuard server to Infrastructure as Code. I got tired of replaying the same commands over and over whenever I wanted a new instance, so I finally bit the bullet...

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EIEmmanuel Isenahblog.emmanuelisenah.comDec 22, 2024 · 10 min read

Password Composition Policies Are Bad and Here's Why

Passwords are the most widely used form of authentication on the internet. And unless you're Nelson Dellis—a six-time USA Memory Champion—most of us tend to pick the easiest passwords we can remember when creating one. I must admit, I've never been a...

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