Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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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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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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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.
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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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Modernize or start fresh? The questions I ask before any cloud project
Every cloud conversation eventually hits the same fork: fix what's there, or build new. The answer almost never starts with technology.
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AWS in plain words: the services I kept mixing up
EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, the alphabet soup that runs the internet. Here's how a few of the ones that confused me finally clicked into place.
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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.
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Using AI to run a better discovery call
AI didn't make me a better listener. It gave me the room to be one.
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What a prototype is really for
The point of a prototype isn't to impress anyone. It's to make an abstract argument concrete enough to disagree with.
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What anime gets right about persistence
A small defense of watching cartoons as an adult.
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Speaking builder and buyer
The most useful person in the room is often the one who can translate.
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The day I stopped just selling
A customer asked a question my sales answer couldn't cover. That was the day my job quietly changed.
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What sales taught me about listening
The best deals I closed started with me talking less.
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Starting small
Why I finally started writing things down in public.