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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
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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
6 min read

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
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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
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Demo Sensitive Info in your terminal

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 something on your your …

  • Amazon
  • CLI
  • demo
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Goodbye SA - Hello EntReloper

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 in the container …

  • Amazon
  • Miscellaneous
  • career
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Balancing work priorities - the 50-35-15 rule

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 something that my team …

  • Amazon
  • Miscellaneous