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Building vibestack: how I stopped re-explaining myself to my AI
A small confession, before anything else The thing that pushed me to build vibestack was not a strategy meeting. It was a Tuesday evening, and I was tired. I had spent maybe forty minutes in a Claude
Apr 29, 2026
Working with AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC): Terraform, IaC, and what's different
If you manage AWS infrastructure with code, the European Sovereign Cloud adds a new partition to think about. Different endpoints, separate IAM, its own console. This guide covers what works out of th
Jan 28, 2026
ECS vs EKS: When You DON'T Need Kubernetes - A Practical Guide to Choosing AWS Container Services
Introduction You know what? I see teams spinning up Kubernetes clusters for three microservices all the time. Then they spend two months figuring out pods, ingress controllers, and all that magic. And then they pay $70 per month just for three cluste...
Jan 4, 2026
AWS ECS Evolution: Managed Instances and Advanced Deployment Strategies
The container orchestration landscape on AWS recently received significant enhancements with two major updates to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): the introduction of ECS Managed Instances and built-in support for Linear and Canary deployment ...
Oct 13, 2025
Accelerating Infrastructure as Code Optimization with AI: A Practitioner's Journey with Amazon Q Developer
Introduction I've been working with Infrastructure as Code for the better part of eight years—starting with CloudFormation, migrating teams to Terraform, and lately exploring AWS CDK. Over that time, I've seen platforms grow from a handful of templat...
Aug 28, 2025
Kiro: Bridging the Gap Between AI Prototyping and Production-Ready Code
As DevOps engineers and Cloud Architects, we have all experienced the excitement of using AI coding assistants to rapidly prototype applications. A few prompts later, you have working code. But then reality hits: deploying to production requires docu...
Jul 27, 2025
Leveraging AWS Lambda for Modern Business Applications
Every few years, a technology shift forces engineers to rethink assumptions they had stopped questioning. Serverless computing is that shift for this decade. And in 2025, AWS Lambda - the service that
Mar 8, 2025
How AWS, AI, and Bedrock Transformed Businesses in 2025
Introduction The year 2025 marked a turning point for enterprise technology. Amazon Web Services, artificial intelligence tooling, and Amazon Bedrock — the fully managed service for building generativ
Feb 15, 2025