modules.tf now reviews Terraform module pull requests

Reviewing pull requests for terraform-aws-modules has always taken a lot of my time. It was a problem...

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Cleanup, not a rebuild - the fastest way to save on AWS

Do you know how much of your AWS bill goes to resources nobody on your team remembers anymore? I'll...

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Serverless applications on AWS with Lambda using Java 25, API Gateway and Aurora DSQL - Part 9 Using Container Image with SnapStart and priming approach

Introduction In part 8 of the series, we learned how to convert the sample application to...

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Butter Scraped Over Too Much Bread

Everyone I know is tired. Not "I stayed up too late" tired. The other kind. The kind where you open...

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I Built cdkd: Deploy Your Existing AWS CDK Code Up to 15x Faster

I built an OSS CLI tool called cdkd (CDK Direct) that speeds up deployments by up to 15x without...

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markgate: Mechanically Catch Coding Agent Slip-ups and Enforce Non-Command Tasks

I built an OSS tool called markgate that mechanically catches and enforces two kinds of gaps: when a...

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The Lambda I've wanted since 2017

Since 2017, I've wanted to run a regular web app on Lambda: use a familiar framework, start the HTTP...

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Monthly Amazon Location Service Updates - 2026.10

Monthly Amazon Location Service Updates - 2026.10 This is a summary of the October...

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AWS billing horror stories: 10 monsters living in your bill

Halloween is a good time for scary stories. The thing is, I don't have any ghost stories to tell. I...

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Why AWS Cost Explorer Isn't Enough: The Story of My Own Pain and How CloudPouch Was Born

It was 2016. I was sitting in front of my monitor, staring at an estimated AWS bill: 300 dollars a...

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Serverless applications on AWS with Lambda using Java 25, API Gateway and DynamoDB - Part 9 Using Container Image with SnapStart and priming approaches

Introduction In part 8 of the series, we learned how to convert the sample application to...

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I Asked a Room Full of Engineers for Their Worst Production Nightmares, Then Fed Them to an LLM

We all have an engineering "horror" story. You know, the one you actually had to live through. Like...

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We Need Fair Witnesses Again

In 1961, Robert Heinlein invented a profession. The Fair Witness. Someone trained to report only what...

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How to Keep AI from Breaking Your Environment with AWS CDK

How to Keep AI from Breaking Your Environment with AWS CDK More and more people are...

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Serverless applications on AWS with Lambda using Java 25, API Gateway and Aurora DSQL - Part 8 Using Container Image

Introduction Several years ago, I wrote an article series Lambda function using Docker...

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Give your agent an agenda

Memory gives an AI agent a past, but an agenda of durable goals and promises gives it a future worth acting on.

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Serverless applications on AWS with Lambda using Java 25, API Gateway and DynamoDB - Part 8 Using Container Image

Introduction Several years ago, I wrote an article series Lambda function using Docker...

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Deliberation Dashboard: see and analyze your consensus results

Note: I use Deliberation heavily every day, in the harnesses I picked for my own work: Claude Code,...

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4 Ways to Safely Refactor AWS CDK Code Without Resource Replacement

In AWS CDK, refactoring such as extracting resource definitions into a custom construct can cause...

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Orchestrating workflows with Amazon S3 Files and AWS Lambda durable functions using Java SDK - Part 8 AI Agents with Spring AI on AgentCore Runtime

Introduction In part 7, we transformed our application into an agentic one. We replaced...

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Agent memory needs more than vector search

Vector search is great, but it only goes so far. I benchmarked several ways to improve relevance with surprising results.

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Orchestrating workflows with Amazon S3 Files and AWS Lambda durable functions using Java SDK - Part 7 AI Agents with Spring AI and AgentCore on AWS Lambda

Introduction In part 6 of the series, we moved the logic associated with each step into a...

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Monthly Amazon Location Service Updates - 2026.08

Monthly Amazon Location Service Updates - 2026.08 This is a summary of the August...

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Which Part Was Me?

Last week I said I was still working on an answer. I have a partial one. It's smaller than I hoped...

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You're still the bottleneck

The tech industry went from tokenmaxxing to agentmaxxing, which is arguably worse. Here's why.

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Orchestrating workflows with Amazon S3 Files and AWS Lambda durable functions using Java SDK - Part 6 Invoke a Lambda function and parallel execution

Introduction In part 2 of the series, we explored how to use the AWS Lambda Durable...

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Orchestrating workflows with Amazon S3 Files and AWS Lambda durable functions using Java SDK - Part 5 Map and child context

Introduction In part 2 of the series, we explored how to use the AWS Lambda Durable...

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Payment is authorization

Agents shouldn't need an account for every utility API. With x402, payment can become authorization and pricing can become route metadata.

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Building AI Agents with Embabel, Spring AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - Part 4 Upgrade sample application to Embabel 1.5

Upgrade sample application to Embabel 1.5 to support Spring Boot 4.x and Spring AI 2.x In...

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Orchestrating workflows with Amazon S3 Files and AWS Lambda durable functions using Java SDK - Part 4 Wait for condition

Introduction In part 2 of the series, we explored how to use the AWS Lambda Durable...

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