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This is my personal dropzone — a braindump of things I think about, wrestle with, and never want to forget. More about me →
- February 18, 2026
A comprehensive POV on building an internal developer platform — from self-service pipelines and golden-path blueprints to policy-as-code and a three-phase maturity roadmap.
- February 12, 2025
When compliance or self-selection bias rules out A/B testing, adaptive experimentation with instrumental variables offers a smarter, regulation-safe alternative.
- August 22, 2024
Lift and shift gets you to the cloud, but it won't unlock its value. A practical framework for cloud-native modernization, FinOps, and sustainable transformation.
- May 14, 2019
A self-paced workshop covering the full serverless data lake stack on AWS — S3, Kinesis, Glue, SageMaker, Athena, and QuickSight — with code on GitHub.
- December 4, 2018
AWS Lake Formation promises to cut data lake build time from months to days. Here's what it actually does and why it matters for enterprise data teams.
- October 23, 2015
How to use IAM condition keys and EC2 resource tags to restrict stop, start, and terminate actions to the instance owner only.