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The Databricks Tax: Why Small Teams Can’t Afford to Build Their Own Lakehouse

Small data teams face a brutal choice: pay Databricks’ premium or sink months into stitching together AWS services that will haunt them at 3 AM. The real cost isn’t infrastructure, it’s velocity.

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Architecture Certifications: The $500 Resume Filter You’re Forced to Pay

A senior engineer’s dilemma about whether TOGAF and AWS certs are career catalysts or expensive digital wallpaper reveals a broken hiring system that rewards credentials over competence.

#aws#certifications#hiring...

AI chips

Amazon’s $10B OpenAI Move: Where Infrastructure Billions Go to Circle Back

Amazon’s potential $10B investment in OpenAI reveals the dizzying circular economics propping up the AI boom, where cloud providers fund the very startups that pay them back in compute contracts, and everyone claims victory.

#AI chips#amazon#anthropic...

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The $21k DynamoDB Burn: Why Serverless Databases Still Need Architecture

How smart engineering beats cloud magic when dealing with unpredictable traffic spikes

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AWS Just Broke AI Agent Development – And Your IDE Will Never Be the Same

AWS open-sources MCP server for Bedrock AgentCore, enabling true IDE-native AI agent workflows that eliminate custom integration code

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The Cloud Exodus: When ‘Lift and Shift’ Becomes ‘Lift and Bail’

Companies are pulling workloads off major clouds due to insane costs, with hybrid solutions emerging as the pragmatic alternative.

#aws#cloud-costs#cloud-migration...

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When DNS Goes Down: How to Weather the Cloud-Storm

Strategies for surviving DNS outages when everything breaks.

#aws#cloud-resilience#devops...

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Your Manager’s Job Is Next: The Unsettling Truth About AI Displacement

From corporate executives to customer service reps, AI is reshaping entire industries while workers and CEOs alike brace for impact.

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architecture

SNS vs Dedicated Services. CAP theorem tradeoffs

The brutal CAP theorem tradeoffs between AWS SNS/SQS and custom event services that nobody talks about

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Why Cloud Migration Often Fails

IT veterans reveal what they’d do differently after costly cloud migrations – from 5x timeline blowouts to $500K reversals.

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