Terraform and configuration validation
The infrastructure-as-code (IaC) programming language Terraform is an amazing tool in cloud engineering, primarily for its declarative and cloud-agnostic nature. It provides cloud provisioning and maintenance capabilities that scale with your objectives, from local experimentation to full-on production development. This article will highlight Terraform’s ability to validate variables when referencing the state file, before and […]
The Agent Is the Easy Part
What AWS Summit New York 2026 taught me about the infrastructure, identity, context, and governance behind production AI. On June 17, I walked into the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center expecting the usual conference rhythm: a keynote, a crowded expo floor, and more sessions than anyone could attend. With more than 200 learning experiences, choosing a […]
Why Databricks Still Makes Me Think Harder Than I Expected
Designing good data engineering flows and not avoiding the real tradeoffs I have been building data pipelines for five years now. Multiple clouds, enough SQL to fill a novel, and more Spark jobs than I can count. Every time I come back to Databricks, it makes me rethink something I thought I already understood. Not because it is […]
AWS Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) Program
The Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) program is an AWS initiative that measures service consumption driven by partner services and solutions. Quantifying the AWS consumption that partners generate across customer accounts has long been a challenge; PRM is AWS’s latest attempt to address this by providing automated, data-driven measurement across both partner and customer accounts. For partners, consumption […]
How I studied for and passed the AWS AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) Exam
Straight to the point. Why study for the AIF-C01 exam? This exam covers the AWS cloud, AWS services, and AWS artificial intelligence (AI) services, with growing emphasis on AWS security services. For aspiring and current data engineers or generative AI (genAI) developers, preparing for this exam will introduce AWS and its AI capabilities. The main benefits are […]
Agentic Readiness Analysis (ARA): The Step Most Teams Skip Before Building AI Agents
The Problem No One Talks About Everyone is building AI agents. Few are asking the right question first: Are my systems actually ready to be called by one? Many organizations build agents on top of systems that fundamentally don’t support them. The vulnerabilities were always there. Agents just amplify them at machine speed, and what was […]
Strands Multi-Agent Patterns: Which One Should You Use?
When I started building multi-agent systems with Strands Agents, the first decision I faced was architectural: which pattern fits my use case? Knowing what is available upfront saves you from reinventing the wheel — or worse, discovering mid-build that you picked the wrong structure. Strands offers five distinct patterns. Understanding each one lets you pick the […]
History-Aware Steering Files for Kiro-Enabled Repos
How to guide large-scale refactors and reorganizations using explicit, versioned rules instead of tribal memory Every repository tells a story. The problem is, most of that story is buried in commit logs, scattered Jira tickets, and the heads of two engineers who happen to remember why utils_v2_FINAL.py exists alongside utils_v3_backup.py. Over time, repos accumulate entropy. Modules overlap. Naming […]
AWS Agent Registry: A Complete Guide with Full Review
Introduction When I started building multi-agent systems on AgentCore, I quickly hit a problem that had nothing to do with the agents themselves: how do you control the visibility of deployed tools and MCP servers? Every target registered in AgentCore Gateway needed to be discoverable only when it was ready — but Gateway has no […]
Electrical Grid Fundamentals
Yup, ChatGPT made this image with direction An ELI5 Explanation of Electricity and the Power Grid The electrical grid is an amazing system wherein power is used almost exactly when it is generated. I love learning more about it, and I am blessed to work with and lead some amazing teams in the electrical grid […]