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I'm Neha Kumari. This is my corner of the internet — a place for writing, notes, and the small things worth keeping. Thanks for stopping by.
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IAM: why nothing in AWS works at first
Every beginner's first AWS moment is 'access denied.' Here's IAM, the thing saying no, explained the way it finally made sense to me.
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VPC: the part of AWS I kept avoiding
Networking was the corner of AWS I quietly skipped. Here's VPC, subnets, gateways and the rest, explained the way I finally understood them.
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Serverless, and the smallest real thing I could picture building
Serverless was a word I nodded at for a long time. Here's what it actually means, and the smallest real architecture that finally made it concrete: a contact form with API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
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How the pieces talk: APIs, queues, and events in AWS
Once I knew what the core services were, the next puzzle was how they pass work to each other. API Gateway, SQS, SNS and EventBridge, in plain words.
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Learning the cloud I sell, with an AI tutor in my corner
For years I could talk about the cloud without really understanding it. Here's how AI helped me finally build a mental model of AWS.
Recent Posts
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Done admiring the cloud from the doorway
I've understood the cloud for a while now. Understanding it and building on it are different rooms, and I'm finally walking into the second one.
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Thinking like a builder before I can build like one
I assumed learning to build was a technical problem. Step zero turned out to be a mindset I have to unlearn my way into.
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Learning in public, awkwardly
Writing about things I don't fully understand yet, on purpose.
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What a good proof-of-concept actually proves
Most POCs prove the wrong thing beautifully. A good one de-risks the single assumption the whole deal rests on.