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68 articles · Updated 29 October 2026

How real AWS systems are put together: the trade-offs, the diagrams, and what broke in production.

Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions and EventBridge, from cold starts to event-driven design.

DynamoDB, Aurora, S3 and the analytics stack: modelling, querying and moving data at scale.

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How DynamoDB Really Works

How DynamoDB Really Works Partitions, replication, and consistency behind every read and write. Imagine your application sends a PutItem request to DynamoDB. A few milliseconds later, you get a …

Tharaka Chathuranga · · 8 min read

Bedrock, SageMaker and Amazon Q: shipping models and agents on AWS without the hand-waving.

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