Understanding AWS Blocks as a CDK Developer
Understanding AWS Blocks as a CDK Developer I tried out AWS Blocks , announced as a preview on June 17, 2026, from the perspective of someone who norm…
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Building and Deploying Spring Petclinic Microservices on AWS: My Experience as Co-Project Lead and App & Docker Lead
Introduction As part of the DMI (DevOps Micro Internship) Cohort 2, our team successfully deployed the Spring Petclinic Microservices application on A…
AWS Cost Optimization Hub Cloud Cost Management
When AWS announced Cost Optimization Hub at re: Invent 2023, my first reaction was: finally. For years, AWS savings recommendations had been scattered…
I built a free tool that turns plain English into cloud architecture diagrams
I have a confession: I've spent more of my career arranging rectangles in Lucidchart than I'd like to admit. Not designing systems — arranging rectang…
How I Built an iPhone App and Published It on the App Store — With Kiro CLI as My Partner
Note: My English proficiency is limited, so I used GenAI (Kiro CLI) to help translate this post. This is the story of how I went from zero iOS develop…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
🚀 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…
We Built NeuralDrive — an AI-Powered Emergency Routing System on AWS in One Day — Top 10 at One With AI Hackathon
Hey Dev community! 👋 Our 4-person team just made it to the Top 10 of the One With AI Hackathon by Arthurite Integrated x AWS. Here's our quick stack: …
Going Serverless - AWS Lambda Functions
👋 Hey there, tech enthusiasts! I'm Sarvar, a Cloud Architect with a passion for transforming complex technological challenges into elegant solutions. …
From Assistant to Builder: What I Learned Shipping an AI-Assisted Project
Building a URL shortener with Cursor, ChatGPT, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Cloudflare taught me more about shipping software than writing code. Since…
How I Built a Scalable Network Diagnostic Suite on AWS Edge Functions for $1.71/Month
Every developer knows the frustration of using legacy network utility sites. You just want to check an ASN routing path, look up a public IP, or verif…
Implementing Token Bucket Rate Limiting for High-Volume Inventory APIs
When you expose inventory or checkout endpoints to public-facing front-ends or third-party webhooks, safeguarding those APIs from brute-force scripts,…
Deploying Spring Boot to AWS EC2 with Docker and GitHub Actions — The Repeatable Way
Deploying a Spring Boot application to AWS EC2 is straightforward once you've done it. Getting there the first time — and repeating the setup on your …
Understanding DNS and AWS Route 53 for Beginners
In the previous articles, we learned about: VPC Subnets Internet Gateway Route Tables Security Groups Network ACLs (NACLs) These components help us bu…
AI Enrichment Pipeline: From Sample Classification to 100K-File Metadata Search with Bedrock and OpenSearch NextGen
Quick Recap: What We Built in Part 1 In Part 1 , we built a metadata catalog on Apache Iceberg (S3 Tables) that makes unstructured files on FSx for ON…
From Hours to Seconds: An AI-Powered Metadata Catalog for Unstructured Data on FSx for ONTAP
What Works Now vs What Requires Validation This article separates verified AWS-native capabilities from cross-platform paths that still require valida…
Refactoring Terraform: From One File to Modules
My three-tier AWS architecture worked. VPC, subnets, bastion host, app server, RDS, all deployed and running. But my main.tf was a flat file with ever…
AWS Golden Jacket: My Journey of Learning and Certification
Cloud technologies have been one of my biggest professional passions for many years, and AWS has played a significant role in that journey. Through co…