#aws
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I started this week with deeplearning.ai’s course on semantic caching , created in collaboration with Redis. That sent me down a rabbit hole, exploring different LLM caching…
AWS re:Invent 2025 took place this week, and as always, dozens of announcements were unveiled . At the macro level, announcing Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost…
I recently came across two blog posts that made me think, especially in light of a sobering statistic I've seen floating around: a recent MIT study reports that 95% of…
AWS has released several notable announcements within the LLM ecosystem over the last few days. Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors (preview) - Amazon S3 Vectors is a durable,…
Agents app design pattern - this is a back-to-basics adaptation. How would we read this 14 years from now? Would the ideas he mentioned there be a standard?…
PgAI - LLMs have been part of everyday life already for a while. One aspect I think has not been explored well so far is using them as part of ETL. The implementations I have seen…
How we built Text-to-SQL at Pinterest - Text-to-SQL and vice versa became one of the canonical examples of LLM, and every product needs one. The post described a very interesting…
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies - a McKinsey report that highlights the gender health gap and points to the opportunity -…
Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling - having a background in team sports (Rugby) and individual sports (running), I enjoy such posts that bring experience from one domain to…
I just completed “ Cloud FinOps ” book by J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller, and here are a few thoughts - At first, I wondered whether I should read the 1st edition, which I had easy…
I read a lot about FinOps and cloud cost optimization those days and I came across AWS short ebook about data cost optimization . Cost optimization is part of AWS’s…
Women’s health research lacks funding – these charts show how - not a proper tech link but - I liked the infographic very much (it missed some hovering features) and believe this…
How to communicate effectively as a developer . - writing effectively is the second most important skill after reading effectively and one of the skills that can differentiate you…
AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) AWS announcement What is AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda is FaaS (function as a service) offering. It is an…
That's me :) Took the exam yesterday and passed. I learned many news things on the way (e.g here , here , here and here ) and I believe this knowledge (combined with the hands-on…
ElastiCache for Redis is HIPAA compliant while ElastiCache for Memcached is not https://www.hipaaguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hipaa-facts.png What is ElastiCache?…
S3 events notifications supports standard SNS topics and standard SQS queues as destinations but don't support SNS FIFO and SQS FIFO. S3 events notifications enables you to be…
You can use Amazon SNS FIFO (first in, first out) topics and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues together to provide strict message ordering and message…
Delay queues let you postpone the delivery of new messages to a queue for a number of seconds AWS documentation This means that all the messages which are pushed to this queue…
[AWS] independently map Availability Zones too names for each account AWS documentation This means that eu-west-1a in my account is not necessarily the same as eu-west-1a in your…
Conducting a Successful Onboarding Plan and Onboarding Process - I believe that onboarding is important for the entire employment period. It helps setting expectations, getting to…
I read AWS tagging best practices whitepaper which was published in December 2018 and distilled 5 takeaways. 1. Use cases - tags have several use-cases including: Cost allocation…
As I collect items for my posts and wait until I have time to write about them I noticed I have many items related to AWS and decided to have a special edition. 12 Common…
Today I was trying to run my first EMR, here are few lessons I learned during this day. I have previously run hadoop streaming mapreduce so I was familiar with the mapreduce state…