EDA for AWS operations

Welcome Great that you’re here. Today, I will write a bit about Event-Driven Ansible and its possibilities for improving the operational efficiency of our AWS environment. But wait, what does it mean by Event-Driven Ansible? My favorite sentence from the documentation is “EDA provides a way of codifying operational logic,” so in short words, we can code logic for responding to different events. For example, we can trigger playbook execution with Lambdas make our self-service process a bit more ops-oriented, or introduce ChatOps. Continue reading

Local automation

Welcome Once again I have a goal, write every month at least one article. Sounds easy, but unfortunately for me, it is not. The idea behind this blog is to write content that will be helpful for me(and hopefully for my readers as well). For example, when I need basic Nginx configuration I used to open this post from 2021. Now I’m older a bit, so I decided to switch once again to Doom Emacs(? Continue reading

2023 as AWS Community Builder

Welcome It’s the 3rd week of January 2024. The Community Builder form for the current year is probably already closed, right? Ah, it’s not true. It will be closed on the 27th of January, so you still have some time - 5 days. If you need a TLDR, go and apply as fast as possible! Do it now! If you’ve already applied, I have some stories to share or rather an extended 2023 summary. Continue reading

What is the best `as Code` tool in 2023?

Welcome Based on the success of my latest article (CHATGPT!), I’ve decided to continue in that direction by creating shorter and more user-friendly content. Today, I have some thoughts and feelings to share about a complex topic. Recently, I was asked to prepare a sample infrastructure for an OKD cluster from scratch, without pre-built templates. I first used AWS CDK, then rewrote it to Pulumi, and finally to cdktf. You may wonder why I made these changes, and the answer is simple: I really enjoy my job! Continue reading

Top 5 ChatGPT use cases in AWS Solution Architecture role

Welcome Hey there, my friends! Today, I want to share with you the top 5 use cases of ChatGPT in my daily job. But before we dive in, let me tell you a little story. Recently, I made the switch from Obsidian to Logseq, for note-taking, and it got me into the habit of preferring shorter form in general. So, let’s get straight to the point and explore how ChatGPT can help us save time and make our lives easier! Continue reading

Optimizing Video Localization with ML and AWS Batch

Welcome As you may know, I had the opportunity to speak publicly during AWS Community Day Warsaw. The talk was about a non-trivial challenge related to AWS services. Since there was no recording available and the slides alone are not sufficient, I decided to write a blog post to document this homegrown project. During the showcase, you will see various services and encounter different issues. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or via email. Continue reading

Simplify the networking with VPC Lattice

Welcome I started writing this on April 7th, 2023, a few weeks after the release of VPC Lattice (although it’s not yet available everywhere). I was curious about what it is and what it’s supposed to do, so I asked ChatGPT. For now we need to rely on documentation As there isn’t much information available yet, I’ll rely on the official documentation for now. According to the documentation, “Amazon VPC Lattice is a fully managed application networking service that you use to connect, secure, and monitor all of your services across multiple accounts and virtual private clouds (VPCs). Continue reading