Dispatches
writing
Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
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re:Invent 2025: A Decade of Attending AWS's Biggest Event
After attending AWS re:Invent for a decade, reflections on how the conference, the cloud industry, and my own perspective have evolved
cloudai
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Multi-Cloud MCP: One Protocol to Manage Them All
Using MCP to create a unified interface for managing resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure, eliminating the cognitive overhead of cloud-specific CLIs and consoles
mcpcloud
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Next Portal: Building an Internal Developer Platform That Developers Actually Use
The architecture behind Next Portal, an open source internal developer platform built to reduce cognitive load rather than add another tool to the stack
open-sourcecloud