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memex: training for the Forward Deployed Engineer era with a private memory brain on AWS
Or: what happens when an engineer gets tired of explaining himself to his own tools.
Jul 10, 202617 min read122
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, 202617 min read233
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, 202613 min read276
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, 20255 min read43
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, 202511 min read32
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, 20253 min read23