I Thought Claude Skills Were Just Fancy Prompts. They’re Actually Better.
There’s a special kind of professional exhaustion that comes from being really good at something: you end up answering the same questions over and over again. For me, that’s AWS architecture decisions. Every new client conversation follows the exact same pattern: Client: “Should we use Lambda or EC2 for this?”Me: Launches into my standard 5-minute […]
I Forked a Repo to Supercharge Claude Code (And Accidentally Learned Zero-Trust Architecture)
You know that moment when a tool becomes so powerful that the tooling around it becomes the bottleneck? That was me with Claude Code about three weeks ago. Claude Code has gotten ridiculously good. I’m using it for client projects, my own infrastructure work, even for building out complex n8n workflows. But the more powerful […]
I Spent 2 Days with AWS AgentCore and Finally Understood Their Agent Strategy
Spoiler: Everything you know about Bedrock Agents is actually built on this AWS just announced AgentCore at the New York Summit yesterday, and I immediately dove in to understand what this means for anyone building AI agents on AWS. Here’s the thing that nobody tells you upfront about AWS’s agent services: Bedrock Agents is just […]
I Almost Left AWS for Shinier Platforms. Then I Found Generative AI Application Builder.
You know that moment when you’re staring at three different cloud platforms, each promising to be the future of AI development, and you start second-guessing everything you thought you knew? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. I found myself caught in the classic developer trap: shiny new tool syndrome. Azure AI Foundry had […]
From Self-Hosted Chaos to CI/CD Zen: My DevOps Reality Check
You know that moment when you’re running a perfectly functional self-hosted stack, and you think “This could be better”? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. What started as a simple database migration turned into a full-blown DevOps adventure complete with firewall lockouts, authentication failures, and AWS deciding to have a bad day. Here’s […]
My Journey from DigitalOcean to AWS with Terraform
My Journey from DigitalOcean to AWS with Terraform Transitioning from DigitalOcean to AWS wasn’t just a technical challenge—it was a significant milestone in my professional growth. In this post, I’ll share my practical journey of migrating an application stack using Terraform for infrastructure automation, focusing on lessons learned, solutions found, and what’s next. Initial Stack: […]