# Technodrone > Personal blog of Maish Saidel-Keesing, a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services with over 20 years in technology. Writing since 2007, Technodrone covers cloud architecture, AWS, VMware, OpenStack, DevOps, automation, and more recently AI, agents, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), alongside honest career reflections and practical community guides (including the annual "Keeping Kosher at re:Invent"). The voice is first-person, opinionated, and hands-on. - Site: https://blog.technodrone.cloud/ - RSS feed: https://blog.technodrone.cloud/posts/index.xml - Author on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/maishsk - Author on GitHub: https://github.com/maishsk ## Pages - [About Me](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/pages/about-me/) - [Public Speaking](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/pages/public-engagements/) - [In the Press](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/pages/in-the-press/) - [Visio Stencils](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/pages/visio/) - [Contact](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/pages/contact/) ## Recent posts - [My AI Sports Analyst: How I Wake Up to World Cup Insights Every Morning](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/06/wc2026-ai-morning-briefing.html): How I built a scheduled AI agent that collects World Cup 2026 match stats, generates tournament predictions, and delivers a morning briefing while I sleep. - [Bridging IFTTT to Your Local AI Assistant with an MCP Proxy](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/06/ifttt-mcp-proxy.html): How I built a Node.js proxy to bridge IFTTT's Streamable HTTP MCP server to my local AI assistant, including the two non-obvious gotchas that took hours to debug. - [Your AI Provider Is a Single Point of Failure](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/06/ai-single-point-of-failure.html): The Anthropic Fable 5 shutdown proved your AI provider can be killed by a government letter. Here's how to build resilience into your AI stack. - [Your Coding Assistant Is Not You](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/05/your-coding-assistant-is-not-you.html): AI coding tools are useful but they don't define you. The addiction patterns are real, the skill erosion is measurable, and awareness is the fix. - [The Next Casualty of the GenAI Revolution](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/05/next-genai-casualty.html): I was at an event this morning where someone said something that really resonated with me. “The new programming language is English.” And you know what? They’re right. Jensen Huang … - [The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can't See](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/04/hidden-cost-of-ai.html): I had an interesting conversation with a colleague a few weeks ago. He was looking at his team’s metrics, sprint velocity up 40%, PRs merging faster than ever, test coverage … - [LLMs and bon bons](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2025/12/llms-and-bon-bons.html): GenAI is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get. And just like that box of chocolates, sometimes you get the perfect piece, and sometimes you bite into … - [Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2025](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2025/11/keeping-kosher-at-reinvent-2025.html): It is that time of the year again, we are just two weeks away from re:Invent. Every year I write a post) this was last year’s) and every year people tell me that it is a very … - [Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2024](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2024/11/keeping-kosher-at-reinvent-2024.html): It is that time of the year again, we are just two weeks away from re:Invent. Every year I write a post) this was last year’s) and every year people tell me that it is a very … - [Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2023](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2023/11/keeping-kosher-at-reinvent-2023.html): It is that time of the year again, we are one week away from re:Invent. Every year I write a post, this was last year’s and every year people tell me that it is a very useful … - [In loving memory of my mother - Phyllis Saidel ZL](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2023/09/phyllis-saidel-memory.html): Last week, my mother passed away. She was 87 when she returned her soul to the creator. Losing a parent is hard, all the more so when it comes suddenly. In my mother’s case, it was … - [4 Years at AWS](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2023/07/4-years-at-aws.html): Four years have passed. How time flies, it is unbelievable! Three years ago, I wrote about my first year, and now that I just passed my fourth year mark (and also my second year in … - [Setting a timeout for an Amazon ECS task](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2023/05/setting-timeout-ecs-task.html): Sometimes you just want your application to run, but only for a certain amount of time, there are a number of reasons you might want to do this. It could be that that you do not … - [Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2022](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2022/11/keeping-kosher-at-reinvent-2022.html): It is that time of the year again, we are two weeks away from re:Invent, and last year I did this it was a very useful resource for many Jewish attendees at the conference. Last … - [Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2021](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2021/10/keeping-kosher-at-reinvent-2021.html): It is that time of the year again, and the last time I did this was three years ago. I did not attend re:Invent in 2019, and last year was 100% virtual, so anyone that wanted to … - [Demo Sensitive Info in your terminal](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2021/07/demo-sensitive-info-terminal.html): I would like to share something really useful that I learned today from a colleague (huge shout out to Boaz Ziniman - a fellow AWS Developer Advocate) Have you ever demoed … - [Goodbye SA - Hello EntReloper](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2021/06/new-role-entreloper.html): Today I start a new journey within AWS. I am happy to announce that today is Day-1 (and it is always Day-1 in Amazon - BTW) in a new role as a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate … - [Balancing work priorities - the 50-35-15 rule](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2021/06/50-35-15.html): How do you balance the priorities during your work day? How do you know that you are focusing on the right thing? How do you even actually know what is the right thing? This is … - [AWS CLI Alias - for ECS exec](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2021/03/ecs-exec-alias.html): A few days ago AWS released a very much requested feature “ECS exec” - which enables you to “ssh” into one of your containers running in ECS, regardless of if they are running in … - [AWS CLI Aliases](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2021/02/aws-cli-aliases.html): Today I would like to share with you an AWS CLI feature that is not actually well known and not really well documented. I use the AWS cli on a daily basis - pretty much every time … - [Don't erase the past, change the future!](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/07/dont-erase-the-past/): This post has nothing to do with technology, so if you follow my blog for that purpose only - feel free click away. This post is based on the original article in hebrew by Rabbi … - [A Year at AWS](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/07/a-year-at-aws.html): Today is my one year anniversary at AWS as a Senior Solutions Architect. I started exactly 1 year ago. How time flies… this is re-post of a twitter thread (and in true Amazon … - [A New AWS Community Visio Stencil Release (v2.0)](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/05/aws-visio-v2.0/): Good evening to you all. I would like to introduce you to a new release of the AWS Community Visio stencils. What has changed? A lot actually. Jerry Hargrove has continued to … - [Blog Publishing Process](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/05/blog-publishing-process/): There are a number of ways to publish content for a blog, and many people who have moved to static HTML platforms like hugo use a similar flow. In my Blog Migration Series, I went … - [Migrating the Blog Part - 5](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/04/migrating-the-blog-part-5.html): This is part of a series of posts about how I completed the migration of my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted solution based on AWS S3. Part 1 - Decide on where to host the new … - [Migrating the Blog Part - 4](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/04/migrating-the-blog-part-4.html): This is part of a series of posts about how I completed the migration of my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted solution based on AWS S3. Part 1 - Decide on where to host the new … - [Migrating the Blog Part - 3](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/04/migrating-the-blog-part-3.html): This is part of a series of posts about how I completed the migration of my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted solution based on AWS S3. Part 1 - Decide on where to host the new … - [Migrating the Blog Part - 2](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/04/migrating-the-blog-part-2.html): This is part of a series of posts about how I completed the migration of my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted solution based on AWS S3. Part 1 - Decide on where to host the new … - [Migrating the Blog Part - 1](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/04/migrating-the-blog-part-1.html): This is part of a series of posts about how I completed the migration of my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted solution based on AWS S3. Part 1 - Decide on where to host the new … - [Migrating the Blog Part - 0](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2020/04/migrating-the-blog-part-0.html): It has been a journey, one that took a long time. A journey that took much longer than I had hoped, but now it is time to document how I migrated everything from my previous blog … ## Topics - [Vmware](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/vmware/) (347 posts) - [Miscellaneous](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/miscellaneous/) (256 posts) - [Administration](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/administration/) (226 posts) - [VSphere](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/vsphere/) (133 posts) - [ESX](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/esx/) (101 posts) - [Management](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/management/) (96 posts) - [VMworld](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/vmworld/) (81 posts) - [Virtualization](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/virtualization/) (79 posts) - [Tools](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/tools/) (72 posts) - [VCenter](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/vcenter/) (71 posts) - [Troubleshooting](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/troubleshooting/) (66 posts) - [Cloud](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/cloud/) (60 posts) - [Powershell](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/powershell/) (59 posts) - [Scripting](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/scripting/) (58 posts) - [AWS](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/aws/) (54 posts) - [OpenStack](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/openstack/) (52 posts) - [PowerCLI](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/powercli/) (43 posts) - [Microsoft](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/microsoft/) (38 posts) - [ESX4i](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/esx4i/) (33 posts) - [Automation](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/automation/) (32 posts) - [Windows](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/windows/) (32 posts) - [Summit](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/summit/) (25 posts) - [Blogger](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/blogger/) (23 posts) - [DevOps](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/devops/) (22 posts) - [Architecture](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/tags/architecture/) (21 posts)