The Cloud Digest

The AWS Cleanup We Keep Putting Off (I Let an Agent Do It)

Forgotten AWS resources quietly cost you money, and the cleanup is the chore everyone puts off. Here's how I cleared out old CloudFormation stacks by chatting with an agent, worked around a stack that refused to delete, then had it scan my whole account for the leftovers actually running up the bill.

Hetzner Inference: First Look

Hetzner is experimenting with LLM inference. That is not a sentence I expected to write, but I think...

Google ADK: Introduction to AI Agent Development

Nota: ✋ This post was originally published on my blog wiki-cloud.co ...

Automatically add your Cloud Shell URL to OAuth client authorized URIs

TL;DR Simple repo to automatically check your Cloud Shell env URL is included in your...

Day 2/30 AWS System Design Patterns

A fintech startup is building a real-time payment processing platform. Three teams need to react when...

DevOps Engineer Professional Exam Guide

📘 The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) The AWS Certified DevOps...

GitHub Actions & CI/CD, Explained Like a Robot Assembly Line

There was a ritual I do not miss: the manual deploy.

I Run Bare-Metal Kubernetes on $200 of Scrap Hardware (And Why I Burned 3 SD Cards Learning)

I Run Bare-Metal Kubernetes on $200 of Scrap Hardware (And Why I Burned 3 SD Cards...

SPF, DKIM, DMARC: the 15-minute setup that actually passes

Every guide to email authentication starts with a history lesson. Skip it. You are here because your...

The Warning That Took My Site Down Was in the Log the Whole Time

A few weeks ago, I mistakenly took my own site down for about thirty minutes. I was wiring up a...

I Had a Lot of Fun Building a Linux Packet Flight Recorder

I built skbx to follow packets through the Linux kernel, preserve what it observed, and replay the evidence later without root.

DSCI - CI with regular programming languages instead of YAML

How to use DSCI to build CI pipelines using regular programing languages

The AWS Cleanup We Keep Putting Off (I Let an Agent Do It)

Forgotten AWS resources quietly cost you money, and the cleanup is the chore everyone puts off. Here's how I cleared out old CloudFormation stacks by chatting with an agent, worked around a stack that refused to delete, then had it scan my whole account for the leftovers actually running up the bill.

Defeating the Fargate Cold Start Chaos with SOCI

If you've ever hit deploy on AWS Fargate and watched the task sit in PENDING forever, this one's for...

Sentry's Span Hierarchy Exposed a Silent Retry in My 5-Agent Pipeline. One Agent Took 22.6s, the Others Took 5.

How gen_ai.invoke_agent spans revealed one tool was dumping 7x more output than its siblings. The fix: pagination + a token budget guard. 42% output reduction, 21% faster agent.

94 Million Hausa Speakers, and AI Still Barely Understands Them. What Three Years of Grassroots Work Taught Me.

Hausa is spoken by close to 94 million people in Nigeria alone, with tens of millions more across...

Day 2/30 AWS System Design Patterns

A fintech startup is building a real-time payment processing platform. Three teams need to react when...

DevOps Engineer Professional Exam Guide

📘 The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) The AWS Certified DevOps...