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AWS SAA: 10 Core Concepts (Explained for Infrastructure Engineers)
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (868+ words) This post covers what I learned while preparing for AWS_SAA " IAM, EC2, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, RDS, Route 53, S3, Cloud Front, and messaging services. I'm writing this for engineers who already understand infrastructure, so I'm skipping the basics and going straight to what…...
Stop Paying $20/month. Use NVIDIA Build: 80+ Free AI Models
11+ hour, 30+ min ago (26+ words) This is a TLDR of a longer article where I tried multiple free AI models on Cursor and VS Code, .. . Tagged with ai, programming, nvidia, llm....
Building an E-Commerce Saa S with MCPify: A Real-World Use Case
11+ hour, 20+ min ago (1560+ words) That's why when I came across MCPify, I was skeptical but intrigued. The pitch is bold: "Stop hand-writing MCP tools. Compile your stack once. Stay in sync forever." It claims to scan your actual codebase " backend services, frontend components, API…...
I Stopped Paying Google and Built My Own Cloud
14+ hour, 56+ min ago (974+ words) How I replaced Google Photos, Google Drive, and Google Home with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 setup -. .. Tagged with selfhosted, homelab, raspberrypi, google....
Overcoming Architectural Dogma: Why Infrastructure is a Business Stage Decision
15+ hour, 6+ min ago (625+ words) One of the most persistent traps in modern software development is the tendency to turn architectural styles into absolute dogmas. We see it constantly on social media and inside engineering rooms: teams arguing over cloud native versus cloud agnostic as…...
5- AWS Serverless: : Caching and Event-Driven Design
1+ day, 43+ min ago (493+ words) When building high-scale, resilient systems on AWS, performance isn't just about writing fast code, it's about avoiding unnecessary work. A Engineer's philosophy often boils down to a simple truth: The fastest code is the code that never executes, and the…...
AWS Cost Optimization Hub Cloud Cost Management
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1674+ words) When AWS announced Cost Optimization Hub at re: Invent 2023, my first reaction was: finally. For years, AWS savings recommendations had been scattered across at least four different consoles. Compute Optimizer, for instance, right-sizing. Trusted Advisor for general checks. The Reservations…...
The Hidden ROI of Cloud Security Hygiene
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (1168+ words) We regularly find $5, 000 to $10, 000 per month in abandoned infrastructure during our first few weeks with a new client. That's also a finance finding. And it's one of the most concrete returns you'll see from cloud security hygiene. Cloud infrastructure accumulates....
AWS Cloud Migration: The Zero-Downtime Playbook for Growing Businesses
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1600+ words) Most cloud migration failures are not technical failures. The AWS tooling is mature, well-documented, and reliable. What breaks migrations is inadequate discovery, unclear rollback plans, and treating the migration as a pure infrastructure task rather than a business continuity event....
Why Most AI Startups Waste Money on GPUs
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (246+ words) Every day, startups rent expensive GPUs to power AI applications. The problem is that most of those GPUs spend a surprising amount of time doing nothing. Imagine renting an apartment and only using one room while paying for the entire…...