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I Built My Own Mailchimp Alternative in 200 Lines of Code
Ever looked at your Mailchimp bill and thought “I could build this”? I did, and I was right. I needed drip emails for my SaaS—a simple 3‑step onboarding sequenc...
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Building a Production-Ready Text-to-Text API with AWS Bedrock, Lambda & API Gateway
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I Built a Form Backend in a Weekend Because Paying $20/Month for Contact Forms is Stupid
So here's the thing I was helping a friend set up his portfolio site last weekend. Nice design, fast site, Vercel hosting on the free tier—perfect. Then he ask...
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How We Migrated an AWS Amplify GraphQL Backend to CDK (Without a Rewrite)
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The Great ORM Pivot: Why Teams are Moving to Drizzle in 2025
The Prisma Approach Prisma uses a powerful query engine written in Rust. It’s robust and safe, but it’s a heavy binary. In a long‑running server this overhead...
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Consistently deploying Lambda functions and layers using Terraform
The code that accompanies this blog post can be found herehttps://github.com/justtinkering/blogpost-deploy-lambda-with-terraform. Deploying Lambda functions to...
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Optimizing AWS Lambda Performance: Balancing Power and Cost
Over the past week I ran a series of performance tests to fine‑tune an AWS Lambda function’s configuration, focusing on the balance between execution speed and...
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Comparing API Architecture Choices: A Technical Evaluation of Six Setups Tested in Personal Development
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I Built an On‑Demand Minecraft Host on AWS Fargate to Stop Paying Monthly Fees
markdown ERGamesPRO – On‑Demand Minecraft Hosting on AWS Most Minecraft server hosts have a fundamental flaw: they charge a monthly subscription for a server th...
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Stop Overpaying for AWS WAF! (5 Cost Optimization Tips)
Cost Optimization Tips for AWS WAF As a Solution Architect deep‑diving into AWS WAF cost savings, I discovered that a lot of spend comes from “noise.” If you’r...
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Harnessing React in the Era of Serverless Deployment: A Modern Approach
Introduction React has revolutionized front‑end development with its component‑based architecture and declarative UI paradigm. As applications grow in complexi...
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Building a Serverless PDF Merger & Editor using React and pdf-lib (No Backend!)
Introduction I merge PDFs about twice a week. Not enough to pay for an Adobe subscription, but enough to be annoyed by online tools. You know the drill: - Goog...