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Stop Hardcoding Passwords: A Beginner's Guide to AWS Secrets Manager

Jun 23, 202610 min read

How to Add a Custom Domain to AWS Cognito Google Login (And the Errors Nobody Warns You About)

Jun 2, 20268 min read

Lambda MicroVMs Are Kind of Insane: Tiny Virtual Machines That Boot in Milliseconds and Sleep When You Are Not Looking

A beginner friendly guide to the Firecracker powered microVMs behind AWS Lambda, the new suspend and resume superpower, and the big question everyone keeps asking: is this still serverless?

Jun 30, 202612 min read

Lambda Execution Roles Are Quietly Breaking Your Least Privilege Policy

May 21, 20268 min read

AWS Amplify Looks Simple, Until It Is Not

May 12, 20268 min read

AWS Amplify Cache Is Useless — And Here Is the Data to Prove It

I spent time optimizing my Amplify build, ran every experiment I could think of, and the cache never once helped. Here is what I found and why I think it is fundamentally broken.

Apr 29, 20267 min read

Your AWS Cognito Emails Are Going to Spam — Here Is How to Fix It Step by Step

Who This Guide Is For If you are building an app on AWS and using Cognito to handle user sign-up and login, you have probably noticed that Cognito sends emails automatically — a verification email whe

Apr 28, 202610 min read