Ankit Patterson

A build-narrative on finding a way of working with coding agents that survives across repos and sessions — what I borrowed from spec-driven and steering methodologies, what I left behind, and why ‘read it, don’t clone it’ beat a shared template.

Glue crawler on DynamoDB? Nope. DynamoDB export JSON? ION? Painful. Here’s the path I took — with CDK stacks and screenshots — to land on a reliable ETL workflow.

Deep‑dive build: secure VPC‑only Studio, S3/KMS, endpoints, IAM, and a flexible custom resource that manages SageMaker Pipelines via the SDK — with deploy steps, infra costs, and troubleshooting.

Learn how to deploy a production-ready serverless AI agent on AWS using the Strands SDK with Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock, and CDK. Includes architecture, code, and cost breakdown.

Infrastructure as Code promised simplicity, but in 2025, many teams still struggle with brittle state, slow feedback loops, and tool drift. Here’s why IaC feels broken today and how the next generation of tooling could improve it.

Level up your Git productivity with over 25 aliases for faster commits, smarter branching, quick history exploration, and developer-friendly power tools.

Customize your Git configuration to match modern workflows. Learn how to enable smarter diffs, cleaner history, automatic branch setup, and productivity boosts that save time every day.

Tech culture demands constant output, but our mental energy is finite. Learn how Spoon Theory helps developers and engineers manage spoons, avoid burnout, and build sustainable careers.

Your business emails might look legitimate, but simple misconfigurations can make them appear suspicious, land in spam, or even enable phishing attacks. Here are the top 5 mistakes companies make with email security — and how to fix them.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) can result in hidden AWS API Gateway charges when every request triggers a preflight. This post explains why and shows how to use CloudFront, caching, path-based routing, and smart API design to reduce costs.