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The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can't See

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 sitting pretty at …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Tools
4 min read

LLMs and bon bons

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 that bon bon …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Strands
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Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2025

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 useful resource for …

  • Kosher
  • re:invent
  • AWS
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Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2024

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 useful resource for …

  • Kosher
  • re:invent
  • AWS
4 min read

Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2023

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 resource for many …

  • Kosher
  • re:invent
  • AWS
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In loving memory of my mother - Phyllis Saidel ZL

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 something …

  • Personal
6 min read

4 Years at AWS

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 my role as a …

  • Amazon
  • Career
  • AWS
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Setting a timeout for an Amazon ECS task

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 want to spend too much …

  • Container
  • ECS
  • AWS
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Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2022

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 year we had a …

  • Kosher
  • re:invent
  • AWS
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Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2021

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 keep kosher, it was …

  • Kosher
  • re:invent
  • AWS