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SQS
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Oct 15, 2025
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4 min read
SL#39 - Make Your Serverless Stack Observable—Before It Breaks
Tracing async workflows, debugging across queues, and the metrics that actually matter—an advanced guide for serverless teams.
AWS
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Aug 3, 2025
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7 min read
SL#35 - Building a Serverless ETL Pipeline with AWS Glue: Integrating DynamoDB, S3, and OpenSearch
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service designed to simplify data integration. It automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs by providing a serverless environment, built-in transformation logic, and native integration with other AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.
DDD
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Oct 3, 2024
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12 min read
SL#33 - Understanding the C4 Architecture Model: A Detailed Breakdown
Adapting the C4 Model for Serverless, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Archive
S3
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Oct 7, 2026
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9 min read
SL#114 - AWS Services (11/120) - Amazon S3: Strong Consistency, Eleven Nines, and the Request Bill Nobody Models
The definition, the cost model, the limits, and a versioned bucket with lifecycle that you build and cost out to the cent.
Tutorial
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Oct 5, 2026
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11 min read
SL#112 - AWS Services (9/120) - AWS Elastic Beanstalk: The Original PaaS in 2026, What It Still Does Well, and the Honest Way Out
Elastic Beanstalk is a deployment engine that wraps EC2, an Auto Scaling group and a load balancer in one object. This reference covers the model, the limits, and a runnable build with a rolling deploy and a blue/green swap.
Tutorial
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Oct 4, 2026
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11 min read
SL#111 - AWS Services (8/120) - Amazon Lightsail: The Fixed-Price On-Ramp, and the Day You Migrate Out
When Lightsail is the right answer, when it is a trap you will migrate out of, and a script that builds a server, measures its CPU budget, and proves you can leave.
Tutorial
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Oct 3, 2026
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10 min read
SL#109 - AWS Services (7/120) - AWS App Runner: Closed to New Customers, and the ECS Express Mode Migration
App Runner no longer accepts new customers. What it was, what replaced it, what the bill looks like, and a working migration to ECS Express Mode you can run for about a dime.