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If you've ever spent an entire weekend fighting with server configs, DNS propagation, or figuring out how to wire up storage and a model API just to…
I am not going to spend this whole article making the usual serverless argument. Yes, managed infrastructure is useful. Yes, automatic scaling is ni…
Every cloud architecture diagram you've ever drawn for a "modernize the legacy system" project probably has the same box in it: a sync job. Somethin…
Every extraction pipeline I have ever pointed at a language model shares the same dirty secret: the JSON comes back almost valid. Almost is where th…
Building a Serverless Weather Pipeline on AWS: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough This is a build log for someone who's used AWS a bit — deployed a Lambda f…
The 3 AM pager is a decision problem, not a code problem, and most teams lose the night because the runbook exists only in someone's head. I've been…
Demystifying Data Decisions: Building a Serverless BigQuery MCP Agent with Gemini & Google ADK title: "Demystifying Data Decisions: Building a S…
A comment on one of my posts sat open as an issue for two weeks before I understood how bad the thing it described actually was. The post was about…
When designing modern micro-SaaS web utilities (calculators, formatters, text cleaners), developers often default to Serverless Edge Functions or Se…
Sending every request to your biggest model is the easiest way to burn a Bedrock budget — a "what's the capital of Japan?" question doesn't need the…
Originally published on the Merlonix blog . Merlonix monitors uptime, SSL/TLS, DNS, email authentication, blacklists, Certificate Transparency, Core…
Serverless on AWS isn't "just use Lambda." It's a design philosophy: let AWS manage the infrastructure, pay only for what you use, and build with ma…
The Allure of Serverless Serverless computing, despite its name, still runs on servers. The difference is that you don't manage them. You deploy fun…
In our inaugural issue , we established that the future of enterprise AI lies not merely in raw model parameters, but in the architectural paradigms…
When 150,000 tickets went on sale for The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX, they sold out almost instantly. But plans change, cancellations happen, and good sea…
TL;DR: We built a one-shot HTTP worker that talks to Notion through MCP. Version one worked. Version two got cheaper and more readable, then failed…
We just shipped an MCP server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime that handles AWS Marketplace seller operations, private offers, change sets, the w…
TL;DR Pulse is a server monitoring SaaS I built as a solo founder for Latin American small businesses. It runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers + Turs…
Originally published on Build With AWS . Subscribe for weekly AWS builds. On August 5, 2026, AWS made vector search generally available in Amazon Dy…
The symptom For four Mondays in a row my data pipeline finished with complete , stages_ok: 16 , stages_failed: 0 . And the run row in the database s…
Have you ever clicked a button on a website, only to wait several agonizing seconds for the page to respond, even though it usually loads instantly?…
TL;DR: Serverless DevOps = running code on services that manage the servers for you, wired into CI/CD. It shines for bursty, event-driven, unpredict…
Short answer: for a small Node.js notification service, poll one delivery-failure metric from a separate scheduled function, evaluate a versioned ru…
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is how modern distributed systems communicate at scale. Instead of services calling each other directly (tight coupl…
Lately, it seems like everything is an agent. Open LinkedIn and you'll find posts about AI Agents. Go to YouTube and you'll see tutorials on LangCha…
MCP servers don't always need containers, persistent processes, or a full web framework. For many tools, a regular Python AWS Lambda is enough: MCP…
Cold Start Arithmetic: Why Your Lambda-Backed Go Service Is Slower Than You Measured Neeraj Singhi Neeraj Singhi Neeraj Singhi Follow Aug 10 Cold St…
I spent months looking at x-nextjs-cache: HIT and thinking ISR was working. It wasn't. I run AI Change Watch , a Next.js App Router site on Cloudfla…
Headline: Serverless did not kill background work — it killed background work that outlives the response without telling the runtime. I now route ev…
For about a year, my portfolio at rubarajan.dev was served by nginx on a Raspberry Pi sitting in my house, exposed to the internet through a Cloudfl…