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61 postsBeyond CRUD: personal projects that prove real architecture skills
A look at why generic CRUD portfolios fall short, and how event-driven architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and decoupled AI integration better demonstrate senior engineering skill.
How We Self-Host DeepSeek V4 Flash on AWS Spot Instances
Inside a self-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash deployment on AWS spot GPUs: MXFP4 quantization, RTX PRO 6000 hardware, DSpark decoding, and KV cache tuning.
Why Your SNS Messages Silently Disappear
SNS filter policies live on subscriptions, not in your code, so publishes can 'succeed' while messages never arrive. Here's why it happens and how to catch it early.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comGolden AMIs with Packer and Ansible: Automated, Auditable Servers
How Packer and Ansible-local standardize EC2 provisioning on AWS, using SSM for secure builds and Parameter Store for centralized config, with a bonus disaster recovery win.
Containing Financial Blast Radius from Bedrock and Marketplace Cloud Spend
A compromised AWS credential can turn into a major financial incident within hours via Bedrock and Marketplace. A DevOps governance model to limit blast radius before detection catches up.
Aurora DSQL: Innovative Solutions for Multi-Region OLTP
Aurora DSQL transforms traditional databases with scalable services, offering strong consistency and fast operations.
IPv6-first EKS on AWS in 2026: what still forces NAT back in
A 2026 field report on running IPv6-first EKS on AWS: the remaining IPv4 traps in RDS, ECR, CloudFront and SDKs, and the real cost savings.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base: What Changes for Developers
AWS's Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base automates RAG ingestion, parsing, and retrieval — key quota limits and userContext security to know.
A Multi-Agent AI Game Cost $1,847 in One Weekend — Here's Why
A two-agent AI game cost $1,847 in one weekend. Breakdown of why multi-agent LLM costs multiply, plus the fixes that cut expensive calls.
Kubernetes DNS on AWS, Part 2: The Hidden ztunnel Layer
EKS DNS timeouts traced to Istio ambient mode's ztunnel DNS capture, a hidden layer that mimics NodeLocal DNS failures — fixed with one annotation.