Steve Cole

AWS says Graviton4 delivers 30% better performance than comparable its previous generation. That number is real under the benchmark conditions AWS used to generate it. The more honest question is what “30% better performance” means for your workload under your traffic conditions. No spec sheet can answer that. The architectural

Build errors show up in your terminal in seconds. Cost errors show up in your budget four weeks later. By then the architectural decision that caused the overspend is three sprints old, merged, deployed, and running in production. You're not going back to change it. This is the

I woke up this morning, made coffee, and sat down at my balcony overlooking the tranquil Andes here in Quindio; hell, for all I know the coffee I’m drinking was grown directly across the valley in clear view every morning. You can’t blame me for smiling. Over the

No blog this week, just a 2 minute high level video of this absolute monster of a feature that so many seem unfamiliar with. If you run compute workloads at AWS and you’re not using this, you should. FinOps at its finest. Performance, resilience, and cost optimization in one

My son will be working soon. Not chores for allowance or odd jobs for neighbors, but an actual job, with an actual paycheck, and actual taxes taken out before he ever sees it. It both brings back memories and terrifies me. I started thinking about what I'd like

This is part 3 of a trio of stories about my son learning about the internet. The first was on the languages that build the web. The second was about what happens behind the scenes when you click a link. This final installment discusses what happens on the remote side