Articles

Why you should become an AWS Community Builder: my experience

7 January 2026·7 mins

Personal Technology AWS Change Thoughts

This is my second year as a Community Builder, and I am glad I joined. Here’s my experience and why you should apply too

Karakeep and Bedrock with Amazon Nova2 Lite for the perfect bookmarking solution

31 December 2025·2 mins

Personal Technology SelfHosting AWS S3 SelfHosting

I host my KaraKeep instance to replace pocket. For AI features, I use Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Nova2 Lite. Let’s see how I achieved the perfect setup for my bookmarking needs, with a useful addition for other tools (no spolers!)

What I've learned while developing The Unofficial re:Invent 2025 Session Suggester

23 December 2025·8 mins

Personal Technology AI AWS Strands-Agents Bedrock Kiro

The unofficial re:Invent session suggester started as an idea and experiment and became a journey through AI technologies like Strands Agents, Bedrock, Amazon Nova Lite and AWS Quotas

CloudFormation Language Server saves me a lot of time, and it's a pleasure to use

30 November 2025·6 mins

Personal Technology AWS CloudFormation Infrastructure

The recent integration of CloudFormation language server into AWS Toolkit saves me a lot of time in development and testing of stacks. It makes the IDE experience complete

This website on AWS costs me 0$ forever, even if it gets famous

18 November 2025·3 mins

Personal Technology Networking Hosting AWS S3 CloudFront

Not a clickbait article. You can leverage the new CloudFront plans to lower your costs. Spoiler alert: the free plan is awesome

My Cheap AWS setup to host Immich files on S3

9 November 2025·8 mins

Personal Technology SelfHosting Linux AWS S3 SelfHosting

I hosted Immich on my Raspberry Pi, but I was running out of storage. EC2 spot instances and S3backer came to the rescue. Still an ongoing experiment, but it had some unexpected rabbit holes…

Nightmare infrastructure – episode 4. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse…

31 October 2025·9 mins

Infrastructure Nightmares AWS Infrastructure

So, it’s time! The 4th episode of the “Nightmare Infrastructures” series is out now! us-east-1 region went down, but why half of the internet wasn’t online?