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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
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re:Invent 2018: Lambda Layers, Transit Gateway, and the Services That Matter
A practitioner's take on the AWS re:Invent 2018 announcements that will actually change how we build
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IAM Policies Deep Dive: Least Privilege at Enterprise Scale
Designing IAM policies, SCPs, and permission boundaries that enforce least privilege across hundreds of AWS accounts
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Lambda, RDS, Oracle on EC2: Hybrid Data Tier Patterns
Designing data tier architectures that bridge serverless Lambda functions with traditional Oracle databases on AWS
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