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Articles
Long-form technical writing on AWS architecture, AI-assisted engineering, and the economics underneath both.
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Vector Database Architecture: How Vector Search Powers RAG Systems
Video Content Moderation with SageMaker Pipelines and Open-Source Models
Video Content Moderation: AWS Managed Services vs. Open-Source Models
Video Content Moderation with Step Functions and AWS AI Services
SageMaker Pipelines: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Building Large-Scale SageMaker Training Pipelines with Step Functions
Best Practices for Networking in AWS SageMaker
AWS Architecture
AWS Cost Allocation and FinOps Architecture Deep Dive
Terraform + CloudFormation StackSets: Deploying IAM Roles Across Every Account in Your Organization
AWS IAM: An Architecture Deep-Dive
OIDC and OAuth 2.0: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Real-Time Messaging Protocols: WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, Long Polling, and MQTT Compared
AWS Aurora: Getting Close to Multi-Region Active/Active
AWS DynamoDB: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Cognito User Authentication: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Event-Driven Messaging: SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Beyond
AWS Lambda Container Images: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Lambda Behind ALB Behind CloudFront: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS OpenSearch Service: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Amazon CloudFront: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Amazon ElastiCache: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Elastic Load Balancing: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Step Functions: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Amazon API Gateway: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Cost Savings
Accessibility Engineering
Agentic Coding
The Night My Agents Started Talking
Making AccelaStudy AI Accessible to All
Eleven Years in Forty-One Days
Achieving Determinism with LLM Agents: An Architecture Guide
Building an Enterprise Chatbot: React, FastAPI, and WebSocket Architecture
Automated TDD with Claude Code: Testing Strategy for AI-Assisted Engineering
The Leverage Factor, Part 2: Defending the Numbers
Agentic Coding, FOMO, and Flow State Addiction
Agentic Coding and Decision Fatigue: The Cognitive Cost of Supervising AI
Building a Cloud Knowledge Benchmark: Testing What LLMs Actually Know About AWS
Giving Claude Code a Voice with ElevenLabs
The Leverage Factor: Measuring AI-Assisted Engineering Output
Single Serving Applications - The Clones
Ephemeral Apps Are Almost Here
Overlooked Productivity Boosts with Claude Code
CI/CD
Data Engineering
Design Patterns
Infrastructure as Code
2026
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Intent
Agentic Coding
The Night My Agents Started Talking
Accessibility Engineering · Agentic Coding
Making AccelaStudy AI Accessible to All
Agentic Coding
Eleven Years in Forty-One Days
AWS Architecture
AWS Cost Allocation and FinOps Architecture Deep Dive
Agentic Coding · AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Achieving Determinism with LLM Agents: An Architecture Guide
AWS Architecture
Terraform + CloudFormation StackSets: Deploying IAM Roles Across Every Account in Your Organization
AWS Architecture
AWS IAM: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
OIDC and OAuth 2.0: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Vector Database Architecture: How Vector Search Powers RAG Systems
Agentic Coding
Building an Enterprise Chatbot: React, FastAPI, and WebSocket Architecture
Agentic Coding
Automated TDD with Claude Code: Testing Strategy for AI-Assisted Engineering
Agentic Coding
The Leverage Factor, Part 2: Defending the Numbers
Agentic Coding
Agentic Coding, FOMO, and Flow State Addiction
Agentic Coding
Agentic Coding and Decision Fatigue: The Cognitive Cost of Supervising AI
Agentic Coding
Building a Cloud Knowledge Benchmark: Testing What LLMs Actually Know About AWS
AWS Cost Savings
AWS RDS and Aurora Cost Optimization Strategies
AWS Architecture
Real-Time Messaging Protocols: WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, Long Polling, and MQTT Compared
Data Engineering
The CAP Theorem, Consistency Models, and the Trade-Offs Nobody Warns You About
AWS Architecture
AWS Aurora: Getting Close to Multi-Region Active/Active
AWS Cost Savings
AWS EC2 Cost Optimization: Five Strategies That Cut Compute Bills in Half
AWS Cost Savings
AWS S3 Cost Optimization: The Complete Savings Playbook
AWS Cost Savings
Cutting AWS Egress Costs with a Centralized VPC and Transit Gateway
Agentic Coding
Giving Claude Code a Voice with ElevenLabs
Data Engineering
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL on Aurora: An Architecture Deep Dive
Design Patterns
Step Functions for Cart and Fulfillment: Async Workflow Patterns That Survive Production
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Video Content Moderation with SageMaker Pipelines and Open-Source Models
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Video Content Moderation with Step Functions and AWS AI Services
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Video Content Moderation: AWS Managed Services vs. Open-Source Models
Agentic Coding
The Leverage Factor: Measuring AI-Assisted Engineering Output
AWS Architecture
AWS DynamoDB: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
AWS Cognito User Authentication: An Architecture Deep-Dive
CI/CD
AWS CodeDeploy: An Architecture Deep-Dive
CI/CD
AWS CodeBuild: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
AWS Event-Driven Messaging: SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Beyond
CI/CD
AWS CodePipeline: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
AWS Lambda Container Images: An Architecture Deep-Dive
CI/CD
Building a Production CI/CD Pipeline for Containerized AWS Lambda Functions
Data Engineering
iOS Telemetry Pipeline with Kinesis, Glue, and Athena
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi Compared
AWS Architecture
Lambda Behind ALB Behind CloudFront: An Architecture Deep-Dive
Agentic Coding
Single Serving Applications - The Clones
Agentic Coding
Ephemeral Apps Are Almost Here
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
SageMaker Pipelines: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Building Large-Scale SageMaker Training Pipelines with Step Functions
2025
AWS Architecture
AWS OpenSearch Service: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
Amazon CloudFront: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
Amazon ElastiCache: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture
AWS Elastic Load Balancing: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AI and ML in the AWS Cloud
Best Practices for Networking in AWS SageMaker
Agentic Coding
Overlooked Productivity Boosts with Claude Code
AWS Architecture
AWS Step Functions: An Architecture Deep-Dive
AWS Architecture