Insights & Resources

Glue 5.1 (Spark 3.5.6, Iceberg 1.10.0) for lakehouse ETL. July 2026 refresh — Iceberg v2 vs v3, Lake Formation writes, compaction, Athena compatibility.

Most DevOps guides teach what AWS services are. Production teaches what happens when 200 engineers use them together. Here's the gap.

AWS CLI v2 #10196 chmod'd streaming outputs to 0600 — including /dev/null. July 2026 retrospective: #10215 revert, host repair, pin-and-canary checklist.

Glue does EL; dbt does T. July 2026 refresh — Glue 5.1 DPU economics, dbt-athena/Redshift, and the combined stack most teams converge on.

LocalStack paid tiers pushed free emulators forward. July 2026: MiniStack (~60+ services, real Postgres/Redis) vs floci (ms startup) — pick by CI speed vs DB fidelity.

12 business triggers for hiring AWS help — and when not to. July 2026 scorecard: FinOps, GenAI, compliance, multi-account.

Athena still bills ~$5/TB scanned (or Capacity Reservations by DPU). July 2026 refresh — partitions, Parquet/Iceberg, workgroups, and when provisioned capacity wins.

The standard cost optimization checklist no longer cuts it. These 8 modern strategies — from unit economics to automated Savings Plans and cost observability — reflect how engineering teams are actually managing cloud spend in 2026.

Most AWS security breaches aren't caused by AWS failures — they're caused by misconfiguration. Here are 10 concrete best practices to harden your AWS environment in 2026.

Embedding QuickSight dashboards in your SaaS product gives every customer analytics without building a BI layer from scratch. Here is the complete implementation guide — embedding types, authentication, row-level security, and cost.

Build a data-driven business case for application modernization. ROI calculations, cost-benefit analysis, risk frameworks, and board-ready presentations.

Build production-ready AI agents on Bedrock with tool use, multi-step workflows, and supervisor patterns. From single agents to multi-agent orchestration.