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On architecture,
cloud, and teams.
Thoughts on serverless architecture, AWS Well-Architected practices, and engineering leadership. Follow on LinkedIn to be notified when new articles publish.
Cloud & Architecture
The engineering half of the claim: AWS and architecture, compliance as an architectural constraint, incident response from zero, and the technology validation gate.
- Cloud & Architecture · 1 of 4
The Well-Architected Framework isn't a checklist
Most teams treat a WAF review as a compliance exercise. It's actually a forcing function for architectural honesty. How to run one that produces a real roadmap, not a PDF.
27 June 2026 - Cloud & Architecture · 2 of 4
CDK vs Terraform in 2025: the honest comparison
Both are mature, both have tradeoffs. The right answer depends on your team's language, your org's policy stance, and how much you trust AWS to own your abstraction layer.
28 June 2026 - Cloud & Architecture · 3 of 4
Why your serverless costs are higher than they should be
Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway are cheap at low scale — then suddenly they're not. A practical guide to reading your AWS bill and fixing the top five serverless cost traps.
28 June 2026 - Cloud & Architecture · 4 of 4
Why your architecture diagrams are failing (and how C4 fixes them)
Most architecture diagrams fail because they try to show everything to everyone at once. The C4 model applies a map-like zoom hierarchy to software design, so stakeholders and engineers each get the view they need.
9 August 2026