
Serving images from S3 worked for years, until it didn't. Here's how I moved image optimization out of my workflow and made performance the default.
read moreI published my first blog post 7 years ago. I wrote on Medium for about a year before I built Ready, Set, Cloud. For most of its life, the site hasn’t had much of a facelift or performance updates. It’s primarily served as a home for my writing, newsletter, and podcast.

Serving images from S3 worked for years, until it didn't. Here's how I moved image optimization out of my workflow and made performance the default.
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I built a deliberately overengineered serverless hackathon project with agents, event-driven choreography, and what not to do... on purpose.
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A real-world look at AppSync Events through the lens of hard-earned WebSockets mistakes. What managed real-time actually means, what's still missing, and what most teams really want.
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Learn about how I helped scale the Believe in Serverless community and grow the brand presence with a little bit of automation.
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A practical comparison of AWS Step Functions and Temporal, looking at workflow modeling, operational complexity, and how each fits different system designs.
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First impressions of serverless Postgres with Neon, focusing on developer experience, performance tradeoffs, and where it fits (or doesn't) in real-world systems.
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Cron jobs let you set recurring events down to 1-minute intervals. But what if you need more?
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Learn how I automated the creation of redirect links and click-tracking to highlight content creators without any extra work
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Every year I write some software to creatively distribute presents to my brother. I might have gone too far this year.
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Finding the time to create and post on social media takes time and expertise I don't have. So I asked AI to do it for me.
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