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....
7 days agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 11 minutes π― Main Learning: A Karpenter NodePool is a placement policy, not an instance preference. Pin one instance family, and a Spot shortage moves your fleet across availability zones, where every internal call starts costing $0.01 per GB. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ Important off topic things first: Sandro got married! πWe were in Munich for it and it was a fantastic day! βοΈHighly recommend a wedding over sprint planning or fighting with AWS...
21 days agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 6 minutes π― Main Learning: One stack, reused for every project. Hono on Lambda, Postgres with Drizzle, a TanStack SPA on S3 and CloudFront, and Better Auth for login. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½we've build a lot of fullstack applications so far: client projects side projects (this one, shopify apps, etc.) example tutorial apps Over the past few years we switched up tech stacks a lot. That taught us what actually matters in a stack and what is just...
about 1 month agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 10 minutes π― Main Learning: Wildcards come from the tooling, not from laziness. Put least privilege at the account level and let an agent write the policies. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ I have shipped my share of s3:* at unusual hours and told myself I would refactor it later - which obviously never happened π
So when someone on r/aws asked why developers can't write least privilege policies and put it down to laziness, I was excited to read through all...
about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 11 minutes π― Main Learning: Most teams should stay serverless. EKS only pays off at real scale. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½For years we told everyone the same thing: don't run Kubernetes! And we meant it. Running k8s yourself is a second full-time job. Cluster upgrades, etcd backups, some networking plugin that falls over on a Tuesday and nobody can say why.We're serverless people through and through. Lambda first, a queue behind it, scale to zero, go...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 12 minutes π― Main Learning: Most of the complaints in the viral "leaving AWS" post are skill issues β but egress pricing is a fair hit. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½Recently, a post with the title "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left" hit 810 upvotes on Hacker News last week and went pretty viral with it.I read it twice before forming an opinion. My honest take: most of the complaints are skill issues! π€·βοΈNevertheless, the post is well written and...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 10 minutes π― Main Learning: Describe the agent: model, prompt, tools and AWS runs the orchestration loop behind one API call! π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ If you've ever built an agent on AWS, you know the pain: glue Bedrock, Lambda, and DynamoDB together, grab LangGraph or Strands, then also own the orchestration loop, the memory layer, and your own tracing. π
A "simple" agent ends up with multiple layers of pain.AWS just shipped something that takes most...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 12 minutes π― Main Learning: Wrapping a multi-account AWS org in multiple layers of guardrails, featuring SCPs, RCPs, CloudTrail and Bugdet Actions π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½As you hopefully know, we're really obsessed with security, observability and auditability. That's why we've carefully crafted our AWS Organization's setup. ποΈ In this issue, we want to walk you through our most important guardrails! Including all the whats and whys. π Sponsored AWS...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 6 minutes π― Main Learning: Three levels of AWS observability β from raw console.log to a Claude Code agent that queries CloudWatch for you. π Blog Post π Claude Code agent (free gist) π¬ Watch on YouTube Hey Reader ππ½Quick check β when did you last close the CloudWatch console and feel like that was time well spent?Yeah, me too. And I'm done with it. In this week's video, I will show you how to never open the CloudWatch console again. As a good...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read