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
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After attending AWS re:Invent for a decade, reflections on how the conference, the cloud industry, and my own perspective have evolved
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
The architecture behind Next Portal, an open source internal developer platform built to reduce cognitive load rather than add another tool to the stack
AWS re:Invent 2024 signals a fundamental shift: Amazon is rebuilding its cloud platform around AI agents as first-class citizens
AWS re:Invent 2023 puts generative AI at the center of Amazon's cloud strategy with Bedrock and new services
AWS re:Invent this year revealed a clear strategic pivot toward generative AI infrastructure, and the cloud landscape is about to change
My first book is published, distilling years of hands-on cloud architecture experience into a comprehensive guide
AWS re:Invent just wrapped, and the numbers tell a story about cloud dominance that the industry cannot ignore
AWS re:Invent went fully virtual and announced ECS Anywhere, extending container orchestration beyond the cloud and into any infrastructure you operate
Terraform 0.13 introduces proper provider source addresses and module-level provider requirements, fixing one of the most persistent pain points in infrastructure as code
Kubernetes 1.19 extends the support window to one year and moves Ingress to GA, signaling that the platform has crossed from innovation to infrastructure
COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all
Key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019, including Outposts general availability, EKS on Fargate, and what they mean for enterprise infrastructure
Patterns and pitfalls of containerizing legacy Java WAR applications running on JBoss and WebLogic
GitOps is changing how we think about Kubernetes deployments by making Git the single source of truth for cluster state
Migrating payment processing systems to the cloud while maintaining PCI compliance and zero downtime
A practitioner's take on the AWS re:Invent 2018 announcements that will actually change how we build
Designing IAM policies, SCPs, and permission boundaries that enforce least privilege across hundreds of AWS accounts
Designing data tier architectures that bridge serverless Lambda functions with traditional Oracle databases on AWS
When to choose Kubernetes and when to choose ECS, based on real experience operating both at enterprise scale
Designing VPC topologies, Transit Gateway patterns, peering strategies, and security group architectures for hundreds of AWS accounts
Designing enterprise web tier architecture with Akamai CDN in front of AWS origins, including WAF, origin shield, and caching strategies
Designing active-active multi-region deployments with Route 53 failover, health checks, and data replication strategies
How we designed storage architectures for media workflows using EFS, AWS Batch, and Storage Gateway
How we standardized Terraform across hundreds of AWS accounts with shared modules, remote state, and workspace conventions
How we containerized a monolithic Java application and deployed it to AWS ECS with a full CI/CD pipeline
Enterprise cloud migration is not a single strategy; it is six strategies applied systematically across hundreds of applications
AWS re:Invent just wrapped up and the message is clear: serverless is no longer experimental, it is the direction
Designing a multi-account AWS architecture for enterprise workloads using Organizations, SCPs, and IAM patterns
When to move workloads to the cloud as-is and when to redesign them, learned from real enterprise migration decisions
My first corporate role in America, designing cloud architecture at enterprise scale
Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry
Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation
AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening
A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS
Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise
Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice
Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems
Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software
AWS Lambda might be the most important cloud announcement since EC2 and I am still wrapping my head around it
HashiCorp just released Terraform and it fills the infrastructure-as-code gap that has been bothering me for months
Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction
Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure
CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers
Following AWS re:Invent remotely and picking out the announcements that will actually change how we work
Everyone is talking about microservices but most explanations miss the point entirely
A hands-on comparison of Chef and Ansible from someone who actually needs to pick one for production infrastructure
How we cut server provisioning from five days to under four hours using automation and VMware templates
Docker 0.1 just dropped and containers are suddenly accessible to everyone, not just kernel wizards
A year-end reflection on how 2012 marked the turning point when cloud computing stopped being experimental and became the default
Deep lessons from enterprise storage architecture work, including RAID configurations, VMware storage design, and the failures that taught me the most
A practitioner's comparison of the three major configuration management tools and why I think the landscape is about to get interesting
Google just announced Compute Engine at I/O, and suddenly the cloud is a three-way competition between AWS, Azure, and GCP
What it actually takes to keep Linux infrastructure running at 99.9% uptime, from the perspective of someone who lives in the NOC
DynamoDB went GA earlier this year and I think it represents a fundamental shift in how we think about databases
The container landscape before Docker existed, and why LXC, cgroups, and namespaces matter more than most people realize
The DevOps movement is breaking down the wall between development and operations, and it is about time
MapReduce, HDFS, and the big data infrastructure stack are quietly reshaping how enterprises think about data processing
Studying for VMware certifications and discovering how deeply virtualization has reshaped enterprise infrastructure
AWS just launched CloudFormation and the idea of declaring your infrastructure in a template file is quietly revolutionary
MongoDB, Cassandra, and the database paradigm shift that is making relational purists uncomfortable
What day-to-day Linux system administration actually looks like when real systems depend on you
Heroku and the rise of PaaS are changing how developers think about deploying applications
Rackspace and NASA are building an open source cloud platform and it could change everything
Amazon introduces Spot Instances and a student tries to wrap his head around cloud economics
VMware renames and reimagines its platform as vSphere 4, and the data center will never be the same
A new runtime called Node.js puts JavaScript on the server and everything I thought I knew about web architecture shifts
Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means
Everyone is talking about cloud computing and nobody seems to agree on what it means so I tried to figure it out myself
I got my hands on a real Linux server and learned more in two weeks than I did in a semester of classes
Google just opened up their infrastructure to regular developers and I cannot stop thinking about it