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AWS for the Real World
We teach AWS for the real world - not for certifications. Join more than 10,500 developers learning how to build real-world applications on AWS.
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 6 minutes π― Main Learning: You cannot skip a level of AWS observability. Structured logs come first, then the AI agent that reads them for you. π Blog Post π Claude Code agent (free gist) π¬ Watch on YouTube Hey Reader ππ½ This week I'm bringing back one of our most-read posts: the 3 levels of AWS observability. A lot of you joined after it went out in May, and the topic fits this week perfectly. Because the real question isn't "do I have logs?" anymore....
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 10 minutes π― Main Learning: Every convenience layer AWS built on ECS is dead or dying, while ECS itself has not changed since 2014. Build on the primitive, and make the layer above it prove itself first. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ Getting started with an AWS service often feels more complicated than it should. Four concepts must be understood before a single container runs. A VPC is required before a single request. So, the fancy CLI that promises to do...
β±οΈ Reading time: 21 minutes π― Main Learning: Same CloudFront logs: 12.5s through Kinesis, S3, Glue and Athena, about 1s through Tinybird's managed ClickHouse. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ We've been running Plausible for the analytics on awsfundamentals.com. Good software, no complaints. We still wanted the data to be ours: our retention, our schema, nobody's script in the visitor's browser. So we built the dashboard ourselves. Twice, on two different backends, fed by the same CloudFront logs....