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cloud, and teams.
Thoughts on serverless architecture, AWS Well-Architected practices, and engineering leadership. Follow on LinkedIn to be notified when new articles publish.
Articles
- IaC
CDK vs Terraform in 2025: the honest comparison
Both are mature, both have tradeoffs. The right answer depends on your team's language, your org's policy stance, and how much you trust AWS to own your abstraction layer.
28 June 2026 - FinOps
Why your serverless costs are higher than they should be
Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway are cheap at low scale — then suddenly they're not. A practical guide to reading your AWS bill and fixing the top five serverless cost traps.
28 June 2026 - Architecture
The Well-Architected Framework isn't a checklist
Most teams treat a WAF review as a compliance exercise. It's actually a forcing function for architectural honesty. How to run one that produces a real roadmap, not a PDF.
27 June 2026