Category: Cloud & AWS

A scheduled live event is a capacity problem with the guesswork removed. Most of the time you’re speculating: maybe you’ll get popular, maybe a link goes big. Not here. On a known date, at a known time, a known-ish number of people all arrive at once, and the thing either holds or it doesn’t, in…

Two failure modes show up when you need to add an app to an account that already runs something important. The first is the cowboy move: drop the new thing into the existing stack, share the load balancer, share the filesystem, and discover six months later that you can’t touch one app without risking the…

Every few months a familiar meeting happens somewhere in every company that runs on AWS. Finance forwards the bill, someone senior asks why it went up again, and the engineering answer is a shrug dressed up as a roadmap. The truth is usually less dramatic than either side fears: nothing is broken, nothing was hacked,…

If you are building anything on top of a large language model, there is a wall waiting for you at roughly sixty seconds. It does not matter how well your code is written. One day a user uploads a document, the request sits there while the model thinks, and then the browser shows the least…

Automating a security scan sounds simple until you try to schedule it on a shared cloud account. The scanning logic is the easy part. The hard part is doing it without handing yourself, or the job, more power than the task actually needs. This is a walk through building a recurring dependency vulnerability sweep, and…