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...
28 days 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 1 month 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...
3 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...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 12 minutes π― Main Learning: AWS DevOps Agent investigates incidents autonomously across CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and your code. It surfaces evidence brilliantly β but can confidently point at the wrong root cause, so don't apply its fixes blindly. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ I was in Portugal for the past week. 10 days of tennis, padel, sun and waves πΎ Highly recommended place! Our daily lives as software developers really changed since we started using...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 10 minutes π― Main Learning: S3 Files gives POSIX access at S3 prices: 13x cheaper than EFS for large files, but the 60-second write-back delay silently breaks coordination patterns! π Blog Post π» GitHub Repository π¬ Watch on YouTube Hey Reader ππ½ Sandro is currently traveling through Portugal - work and fun combined! If you happen to be around, reach out. Would be great to meet up! π€ This week we're digging into S3 Files: a POSIX file system backed by...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
