We Built the Same Analytics Dashboard on AWS-Native and Tinybird
Same dashboard built twice: once on Kinesis, S3, Glue and Athena, once on Tinybird. Query latency, a live schema change, and what the Glue crawler costs.
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Writing on AWS cloud fundamentals and best practices.
All my recent blog posts for fundamentals on working with the cloud, collected in chronological order.
A Year of AWS Outages: Why Multi-Region Is Still Hard, Even With AI
A look at a full year of AWS regional outages (StatusGator data plus the early 2026 incidents) and why multi-AZ and multi-region architecture is still one of the hardest things…
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Networking Is Still Hard
A Kubernetes cluster can quietly move itself into other availability zones when Spot capacity runs out, and the cross-AZ traffic that follows shows up on the bill with no health…
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Your IAM Wildcards Are a Tooling Problem
Developers keep shipping s3:* and AdministratorAccess, and it is not laziness. The deploy loop, indirect permissions, policy size limits, and Access Analyzer gaps all push you toward wildcards. Here is…
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Getting Started with EKS — When Serverless Stops Being the Answer
Most teams should stay on Lambda and Fargate. At scale, with many teams and a platform org, EKS with Flux, Helm, and Karpenter becomes the right call. Here's the GitOps…
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