Revolutionizing Banking with Serverless at Scale
So, I was curious about how banks design and secure their applications, and stumbled upon a talk from HSBC on how they built their…
Essays & Field Notes
The Journal
Essays on agentic AI and distributed systems, and the architecture that keeps them working under pressure.
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Strengthening Your AWS Security: Centralized Architecture for Multiple Accounts
If you're looking to centralize security for multiple AWS accounts, then look no further than Megallan Health's architecture. Sure, there are a few areas…
Achieving Greater Visibility and Control: Centralized Logging on AWS Multi-Account
Alright, let's give this text a quick polish and sprinkle some sass on it! If you're like me and you're obsessed with cloud-based architectures,…
AWS’ Well-Architected Framework: Your Blueprint for Cloud Success
Operational Excellence: ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value. Design Principles: + Perform operations as code. + Annotate documentation. + Make…
The Bulkhead Pattern: Designing Systems That Refuse to Drown
Updated December 2025 to reflect modern autonomous and agentic systems Executive Summary Most distributed systems don’t fail catastrophically. They fail quietly. Threads saturate. Queues…
Revamp Your Coding Workspace with Jupyter Notebook Extensions
Yo, fellow Jupyter notebook user! Have you ever wished for some extra features to make your notebook experience even better? Well, have no fear,…
Transform Your Jupyter Notebook with Custom Themes
So you've been using Jupyter notebooks for a while now and the default light theme is starting to make you feel like a vampire.…
Maximizing Machine Learning Potential: Understanding the Types
Yo! Let's talk about the different types of machine learning we've got out there. We're gonna break it down based on the level of…
Kadane’s Algorithm: The Key to Optimal Subarray Sum
The maximum subarray problem is all about finding a contiguous subarray with the largest sum. Basically, you need to look at an array of…
AWS Disaster Recovery: Building Resilience for Your Business
Any kind of failure can negatively impact a business value and when designing an application we need to proactively design for events like that.…