Agentic AI: Productivity Tool or Skill Decay Machine?

With the rapid advancement of generative AI and agentic development tools, a serious question is emerging: What happens to a generation of engineers who rely entirely on Agentic AI without truly learning the fundamentals? Across engineering teams, learning is increasingly outsourced to AI tools. Many developers are becoming less concerned with understanding core principles, trade-offs, […]

Incremental Snapshots in Debezium

Streaming New Tables with Debezium on AWS MSK Connect Introduction If you’re working with Debezium on MSK Connect and continuously evolving your database schema, you’ve probably faced the challenge of adding new tables to an already running pipeline. In my current setup, I stream data from MySQL tables into Amazon Redshift using Debezium CDC running on […]

Claude Code Setup and Agents Swarm in Action

Hello everyone! Today we’re diving into Claude Code — the new buzzword everyone is talking about. In this article, I’ll walk through the setup step by step and experiment with the new Agents Swarm feature to see whether it really lives up to the hype. First, What is Claude Code? Claude Code is an AI-powered command-line […]

How I Prepared for and Passed the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer — Associate Exam on My First Attempt

Hello everyone! In this article, I want to share my personal experience on how I prepared for and passed the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer — Associate exam on my first attempt. The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer — Associate exam was formerly known as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — Associate. Exam Overview The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer — Associate exam validates […]

Part 3: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime)

Part 3: Runtime & Frontend Introduction In Part 1 and Part 2, I built the infrastructure, deployed Lambda tools via Gateway, and configured Memory for persistent context. In this final article, I complete the journey by deploying the AgentCore Runtime and building a Streamlit frontendwith secure authentication. This final article covers: Implementing the agent with […]

Part 2: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Gateway & Memory)

Part 2: AgentCore Gateway & Memory Introduction In Part 1, I established the foundation with Terraform infrastructure and Cognito authentication. In this article, I add the intelligence layer: AgentCore Gateway for serverless tools and AgentCore Memory for persistent context. This article covers: Creating Lambda-based tools accessible via MCP protocol Deploying the AgentCore Gateway Setting up […]

Part 1: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Architecture & Auth)

Part 1: Foundation, Architecture & Authentication Introduction Building a production-ready AI agent chatbot requires more than just connecting to an LLM. You need secure authentication, scalable infrastructure, persistent memory, and seamless tool integration. In this three-part series, I walk through implementing a complete Amazon Bedrock AgentCore solution for a business assistant chatbot. I’ll try to elaborate on […]

Building Intelligent Data Query Systems with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base and Redshift

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, organizations are constantly seeking ways to make their data more accessible to non-technical users. Traditional SQL queries require specialized knowledge and can be intimidating for business users who need quick insights from their data. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with Redshift integration offers a revolutionary solution that bridges this gap by enabling natural […]

Stream CDC data with Amazon Redshift streaming, Amazon MSK and Debezium Connector

Episode 3: Redshift Serverless Streaming Ingestion   Introduction In the previous episodes, I covered the overall architecture design for this project and Debezium connector configuration for our CDC streaming pipeline. Now I’ll complete the series by diving deep into Amazon Redshift Serverless streaming ingestion — the final piece that enables real-time analytics on your CDC data. This episode focuses on the practical […]

Stream CDC data with Amazon Redshift streaming, Amazon MSK and Debezium Connector

Episode 2: Configuring Debezium Connector for Reliable CDC   Introduction In the previous episode, I covered the overall architecture and infrastructure setup for our CDC streaming pipeline. Now I’ll dive deep into Debezium — the open-source platform that captures row-level database changes in real-time and streams them to Kafka topics through MSK Connect. This episode focuses on the […]