ECS Service Discovery: Cloud Map, Service Connect, or an Internal Load Balancer?
ECS Service Discovery: Cloud Map vs Service Connect Originally published at https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-service-discovery-guide Cloud Map, Service Con…
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Replacing a 5-service AWS video pipeline with one API call
TL;DR We had a video feature built on S3 + MediaConvert + CloudFront + a hand-rolled player + a half-finished CloudWatch dashboard. It worked, but eve…
I built a region-survivable system by directing an AI agent. An append-only decision log kept it coherent.
Most of the code in Quorum was written by directing Claude Code, an AI coding agent. That is not the interesting claim, and on its own it is not even …
Surviving the region you run in: failover on Aurora DSQL, and what the demo proves
The thesis Quorum is built on is uncomfortable and true: the tools a team uses to coordinate an incident often live in the same region as the thing th…
Optimistic concurrency is the whole design: event sourcing on Aurora DSQL
Quorum is an incident command plane built on Amazon Aurora DSQL. The failover story lives in another post. This one is about a narrower question that …
hosted coding agents make observability a product feature
The laptop was never the interesting part of coding agents. It was just the first convenient runtime. Your laptop has the repository, the shell, the s…
I built a region-survivable system by directing an AI agent. An append-only decision log kept it coherent.
Most of the code in Quorum was written by directing Claude Code, an AI coding agent. That is not the interesting claim, and on its own it is not even …
Responding to a Compromised AWS Access Key
You wake up to this email from AWS: Irregular Activity Detected for Your AWS Access Key As part of our standard monitoring of AWS systems, we observed…
3- AWS Serverless: REST API vs. HTTP API
There is common point of confusion. what's the different between REST API vs. HTTP API in AWS and what's the different between them and a traditional …
AWS VPC IPAM: The Most Underrated Feature for Avoiding IP Address Chaos
Most teams manage their VPC IP ranges in a spreadsheet — until two VPCs overlap, a peering connection refuses to come up, and nobody can remember who …
The Whole Paper Fits in One Sigmoid: Implementing the SDAR Gate
Recap. Part 1 framed the problem (trajectory reward is too coarse for multi-step agents) and SDAR's fix (a privileged teacher gives dense token-level …
Encrypt your .env with AWS KMS: Secrets that never touch process.env
A year ago I'd have told you a .env file was fine. Then we patched a CVSS 10.0 RCE in Next.js ( CVE-2025-66478 ) and spent the next two days rotating …
How to Remove AWS CLI Configuration from Ubuntu
Introduction The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a powerful tool that enables developers and system administrators to interact with Amazon Web…
How I built a flash-sale engine that can't oversell
I created this piece of content for the purpose of entering the H0: Hack the Zero Stack hackathon. #H0Hackathon The problem (that's harder than it sou…
I shipped my first AWS + Vercel product in 7 days during a Meta attribution crisis 👋
Hi dev.to 👋 I'm Andres. Long-time builder, first-time dev.to poster. (Pretty sure I should have done this years ago.) Just shipped Ad Engine — a 24/7 …
DynamoDB and SQS containers with Docker Compose
Docker Compose facilitates spinning up local AWS-compatible services without an AWS account. This post covers DynamoDB Local for key-value storage and…
Deploying Spring PetClinic Microservices on AWS EKS: A Team Story
When our group of 11 was handed the brief for our DMI DevOps Micro-Internship capstone project, the goal was clear: take a real-world microservices ap…
2- AWS Serverless: Testing (typescript)
Shifting from traditional application testing to serverless TypeScript engineering is all about shifting your perspective: you stop testing a running …
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS
Your AWS bill shows CloudWatch at $400 this month. You have 15 ECS services logging INFO-level with retention set to Never Expire. You didn't configur…
What is Virtualization? The Technology Behind the Cloud
By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In my last post, I said the cloud is essentially “someone else’s com…
Datadog and AWS Shipped Ops Agents on the Same Day. What Are They Fighting Over?
On June 9, 2026 (US time), two big announcements landed on the same day. At the keynote of Datadog's annual event DASH 2026 in New York, the Bits AI f…
Why I replaced DynamoDB with Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 for an ad-ops monitoring workload
On February 14, 2026, Meta started enforcing health-data restrictions that broke pixel-based lower-funnel conversion tracking for DTC telehealth adver…
Optimizing images stored on S3 with ShortPixel: a Laravel walkthrough
If your Laravel app lets users upload images and sends them straight to S3, there is a good chance you are storing files much larger than they need to…
Introducing AWS FinOps Agent - An AI That Investigates Your Cloud Costs
👋 Hey there, Tech Enthusiasts! I'm Sarvar, a Cloud Architect who loves turning complex tech problems into simple solutions. I've worked with AWS, Azur…
How to make AI answer questions about your documents, by building RAG from scratch
In the previous post , we talked about context windows. The model has a fixed-size desk and everything has to fit on it at once. When too much is on t…
1- AWS Serverless: Designing a serverless API: Order Processing API (E-commerce)
Modern enterprise order processing architectures must decouple synchronous client demands from asynchronous backend dependencies. Here I'll detail a h…
Trying Out AWS FinOps Agent with Slack Integration
Original Articles： https://zenn.dev/mob_engineer/articles/skack-finops-agent Thank you for reading this article. I'm Mob Engineer (@mob_engineer). AWS…
🚀 AWS VPC Project: Build a Production-Ready Architecture with EC2, ALB, ASG & Bastion Host
In the previous articles, we learned about: VPC subnets Internet Gateway Route Tables Security Groups Network ACLs DNS and Route 53 Until now, we have…
Stop Using IAM Access Keys: Secure Cross-Cloud Workloads with OIDC Federation
As developers and DevOps engineers, we’ve all been there. You have an external service—maybe an Azure Dynamics 365 (D365) business application or a Gi…
I Read the Cloud Filings So You Don't Have To: a 12-Part Series
I've spent 35 years in IT operations. I worked Y2K remediation at Allstate, spent 2006-2014 inside Microsoft's cloud delivery organization, contribute…