You have a map of the frozen lake. Every crack in the ice, every slippery patch, every hole is marked. You can sit at your desk and plan the perfect route before stepping foot on the ice. That is value iteration. Now imagine you have no map. You lace up your boots and start walking. You slip, you fall into holes, you backtrack. But each time you learn a little more about which moves pay off and wh
Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed