Personal blog of Neha Kumari — writing, notes, and things worth keeping.https://nehaspace.blog/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/done-admiring-from-the-doorway/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/done-admiring-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.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/thinking-like-a-builder/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/thinking-like-a-builder/I assumed learning to build was a technical problem. Step zero turned out to be a mindset I have to unlearn my way into.Tue, 26 May 2026 14:30:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-iam-security/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-iam-security/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.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:40:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-vpc-networking/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-vpc-networking/Networking was the corner of AWS I quietly skipped. Here's VPC, subnets, gateways and the rest, explained the way I finally understood them.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:30:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-in-public/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-in-public/Writing about things I don't fully understand yet, on purpose.Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:45:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/what-a-poc-proves/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/what-a-poc-proves/Most POCs prove the wrong thing beautifully. A good one de-risks the single assumption the whole deal rests on.Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:10:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/how-aws-pieces-talk/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/how-aws-pieces-talk/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.Wed, 14 May 2025 14:15:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/modernize-or-start-fresh/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/modernize-or-start-fresh/Every cloud conversation eventually hits the same fork: fix what's there, or build new. The answer almost never starts with technology.Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:50:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/aws-in-plain-words/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/aws-in-plain-words/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.Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:45:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-aws-with-ai/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/learning-aws-with-ai/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.Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:40:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/ai-better-discovery/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/ai-better-discovery/AI didn't make me a better listener. It gave me the room to be one.Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:35:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/what-a-prototype-is-for/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/what-a-prototype-is-for/The point of a prototype isn't to impress anyone. It's to make an abstract argument concrete enough to disagree with.Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:35:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/anime-and-persistence/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/anime-and-persistence/A small defense of watching cartoons as an adult.Sun, 18 Jun 2023 17:10:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/speaking-builder-and-buyer/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/speaking-builder-and-buyer/The most useful person in the room is often the one who can translate.Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:10:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/the-day-i-stopped-just-selling/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/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.Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:45:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/sales-taught-me-about-listening/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/sales-taught-me-about-listening/The best deals I closed started with me talking less.Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:00:00 GMThttps://nehaspace.blog/posts/starting-this-blog/https://nehaspace.blog/posts/starting-this-blog/Why I finally started writing things down in public.Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:10:00 GMT