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Rafal Wilinski

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Applied AI; built @dynobase & @chatwithcloud

Poznan, Poland

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Joined July 2013

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@rafalwilinski

Rafal Wilinski

8 months

Starting 2024 with an official launch🔥 For the past month+ I've been working on @chatwithcloud , a way to chat with your AWS. How can it help you? 🛠️ Troubleshooting - understand why things aren't working 💸 Cost Analysis - why am I spending so much on AWS? 🔐 Security Analysis

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@rafalwilinski

Rafal Wilinski

5 months

Do yourself a favor and try Llama3 70B with Groq. GPT-4 level answers provided instant. Insane.

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10 months

Cloudflare: Goes down for several hours The market:

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Hanging out with engineers outside of Twitter bubble is fascinating: - they’re not paying for GPT-4, some think it’s useless - still haven’t played with GPT APIs/OSS LLMs - their companies disallow Copilot making them x0.1 engineers - they’re still completely unaware of SST

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Nothing to see here. Claude Sonnet just casually dropping 3d physics simulation using WebGL in one shot

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1 year

Playing with @LangChainAI more. Built my personal, voice-powered assistant accessed through Telegram with Google access. Speech-to-text using OpenAI's Whisper. Text-to-speech using . Will it be able to book tickets for me?

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1 year

The European mind cannot comprehend this

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4 years

Starting a new side-business in 2020 with the right tools feels like child's play. @AWSAmplify gives me an infinitely scalable backend, data mgmt, and auth for ~free, @vercel and Next.js solves 99% of my frontend problems, charging 💰 using @stripe is bliss.

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2 years

Today, we're announcing Dynobase 2.0. What's new? Read on.

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Y'all think I'm joking with Fargate/Serverless but it's working _for me_ very well. I've been mostly on containers for 6mos and here's the list of problems that are simply GONE: - Cold starts/latency - Duration limits - Local testing - Bundling & constant fight to minimise

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3 years

Okay, @dynobase was born about two years ago. Now it's _almost_ self-driving +$120k/yr product used by thousands of developers, from NGOs to Fortune 500 companies. Time for an annual reflection 👇

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

Just got access to @github Codespaces. Game changer for pair programming.

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1 year

Been playing with LLMs + Infra for ~2 hours now and my mind is completely blown 🤯 I've plugged GPT to my AWS account using Langchain and now I can ask questions about my cloud setup:

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Dynobase paid off my mortgage.

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3 years

Coming soon to your AWS Console.

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I'm not saying it's the same thing, but there's something beautifully poetic about the fact that the cost of a notebook ($15) is less than a single month's rent for Basecamp ($399). Much of the cloud is like this.

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I'm not saying it's the same thing, but there's something beautifully poetic about the fact that the cost of a 24TB hard drive ($439) is less than a single month's rent for 24TB of storage on AWS S3 ($552). Much of the cloud is like this.

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TIL about `unpdf` - JS library allowing PDF text extraction inside Cloudflare Workers

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2 years

@jamespotterdev @levelsio

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2 years

Step Functions Distributed Maps are awesome 💫 Combined with DynamoDB Parallel scans, they enable blazingly fast, whole-table data migrations and transformations. Here's a CDK-based PoC of a migrations framework I have in mind and will be working on 👇

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11 months

Discuss

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9 months

Amazon Q vs `npx chatwithcloud`.

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2 years

hot take(?): DynamoDB's simple API and inability to create enormously complex data models (and layers) is an amazing forcing function keeping your whole project small and simple.

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Rafal Wilinski

10 months

I hate setting up Node with Typescript and ESM with passion.

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Cloudformation and CDK

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Rafal Wilinski

3 months

til: you can use @DrizzleORM Studio to browse your Cloudflare D1 tables inside the browser. Zero setup, just install the extension

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

@dabit3 Bigger than node_modules? No way

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

Ending my vacation with a small launch ✨ Web-based DynamoDB Single-table Models Viewer✨ View and share your single-table designs with a community or team effortlessly. Get feedback, cooperatively create access patterns, iterate, and improve.

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

AWS Cognito is the worst. A bug allowing to create two users with same email has been reported *4 years ago* and still hasn't been fixed.

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User Pool allows two users with same email despite configuration

Background I'm using aws-amplify to interact with Cognito. So when a user registers with my app, I call Auth.signUp(). I'm passing only username (email) and password to this function. My user p...

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

Transparency time - Last 7 days at @dynobase Competing with AWS’ UX seems to be profitable business model.

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1 year

@LangChainAI Source code for interested: Yes, I've also managed to leak my OpenAI API key during the process 🫡

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GitHub - RafalWilinski/telegram-chatgpt-concierge-bot: Interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram...

Interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice. - RafalWilinski/telegram-chatgpt-concierge-bot

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

Finally. Last 30 days. From 0 to 10k in a year. Anyone interested in "Last year at @dynobase " write-up?

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3 years

I've spent last 3 hours trying to record and edit this short video to tell you that... Single-table designer is coming to @dynobase ! 🎉

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Dynobase - Single-Table Designer (for DynamoDB)

Dynobase 1.7.0 features a new tool called "Single-Table Designer".Download now: https://dynobase.devSingle-table designer allows you to create your DynamoDB ...

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

When I was starting my journey with @dynamodb , I was overwhelmed by its syntax. 🛠 Here's small tool which might help you constructing queries, especially the complex ones -

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DynamoDB Visual Query Builder (Free Tool)

Don't let the DynamoDB specific query syntax hold you back. Build DynamoDB queries visually and export code for CLI & popular languages SDK formats.

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3 years

Access patterns are crucial part of single-table modelling, they should be the lens through which you're looking at your data. Upcoming version of @dynobase will make that clear.

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Rafal Wilinski

5 years

Just before #reInvent Invent begins, I decided to write about my personal learnings from using single table design with @dynamodb :

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

Since the start of @dynobase , which is 6 months ago, I've: - Found a co-founder, then together: - Redesigned and rewrote app from scratch - Changed business model from freemium to paid only - Hired 2 juniors - Commited +50k lines of code - Made 5 figures 💰 You can do that too!

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Rafal Wilinski

9 months

@DennisEspen > won’t use AI bc sending code to US servers which is a real problem > proceeds to git push to GitHub

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

Something that is going to make single-table design radically more pleasant is coming soon to @dynobase .

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11 months

@boristane Yes, if you have zero customers you can simply delete whole AWS account.

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Am I the only person annoyed by the fact that search in Amazon console is almost useless? Decided to do something with it - create a personalised, self-hosted, serverless resource search. imho AWS needs proper CMD+K desperately. Would you use it?

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2 years

Me, writing an RFCs

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4 years

As @dynobase hit another milestone, 💸 $10,000 per month in this case, I'm often asked: When Dynobase will become my main & full-time job? I think never. Why? 🧵

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Rafal Wilinski

4 months

Llama 3 is damn good. We PoCed replacing GPT-4 with Instruct 8B version in one of our internal processes. Results? - accuracy dropped ~5% (from 98%) - But x30 cheaper - And x12 faster 🤯

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

🚀 Finally managed to deploy Lambda @Edge -based #serverless GraphQL "server" with globally replicated DynamoDB table. Infra under 100 lines of code thanks to CDK! Edge Lambdas are routing to the closest available DDB replica with fallback to us-east-1.

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

CloudTempo is now Open Source! 🥳

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

My typical workday: 10% - coding 10% - keeping up to date with latest JS dramas 10% - project-related communication/coordination 50% - reauthenticating against Okta because my 3 seconds long session just expired

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

If your Jest tests are slow, consider replacing `tsc` with `swc` or `esbuild`. In extreme cases, your unit tests might get x20 perf improvement 🚀 It pays massive dividends at scale and in time - faster CI, PR checks, feedback loops & shorter time-to-prod.

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Working on landings is satisfying AF. Yep, that's a live & functioning embedded version of the product on the page.

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2 years

The “Serverless” Open Search.

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Free business idea: 1. Find AWS service that devs spend the most time in the web console 2. npx create-electron-app && npm i graphql-compose-aws cloudscape-design/components --save 3. Wire a bunch of components to gql queries 4. Provide multi-role & multi-region capability 5. $$$

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

If @Dynobase made your life easier, but you're still hating CloudWatch, you definitely need to take a look at this beauty 👇 Proud of my teammates! 🎉

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Cloudash — Access CloudWatch logs and metrics, hassle-free

Tired of constantly switching between AWS Console tabs? Cloudash provides a laser-focused view of your AWS API Gateway, Lambda and other resources - all in a single app.

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

Dynobase 1.0.0 is finally here.

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Rafal Wilinski

5 months

@awazels No, Groq is an LPU, alternative to a GPU, that’s much faster at doing inferences. Right now available only via cloud offering. The client is @Bolt__AI

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Looks like I have entirely rewritten Dynobase's licensing service to Rust 🦀 It's not only x3 faster than the TS version - it also feels much safer, it's fully instrumented, integration tested, and I had a blast during the process. Next up: Let's do some traffic mirroring!

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Rafal Wilinski

1 year

If you've been following me lately, you might start to notice a pattern. Introducing... ✨ Dynobase AI✨ Natural language in → data structure aware code in a language of your choice out. You can start testing it *right now*, link below 👇

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Rafal Wilinski

7 years

Ladies and Gentlemen - 20,000 stars! 💯🌟🥂 #Serverless

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Some personal news.

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

Timing to tweet this is probably terrible because of re:Invent but 🤷‍♂️ Your Single-table Models → DynamoDB Toolbox codegen is coming to @dynobase ! Stay tuned.

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4 years

@dabit3 Encouraging. I’m 24 and sometimes I think I’m already too slow/old to change my focus. Thanks for sharing!

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3 years

It's now official.

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2 years

👀

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

My search for framing to convey my story using LinkedIn is now complete.

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11 months

Baselime is giving me the kind of visibility into my lambda executions I was dreaming of for a long time, glorious

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

With the introduction of AWS Resources Explorer, it doesn't make too much sense to try to monetise @_cloudtempo anymore. Instead, I was thinking about making whole project OSS - from the secret indexing sauce, extension, landing, payment processing and others. Good idea?

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1 year

I can hear you typing "we should research multi-region". Don't worry, you'll forget about it in a week. Plus, don't forget about Cognito 😉

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

CDK Pipelines are one of the biggest improvements in the infra world lately. Just deployed one that: - Builds API, Cfn Custom Resource and CDK Construct wrapping that resource - Deploys API to 3 AWS Accs - Deploys Custom Resource to other ~20 AWS accs - Publishes construct to GH

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

🤫

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✨ Integrated nicely into the console 🚀 Blazing fast 🌍 Cross-region indexing 🎹 Contextual menus (e.g. show Lambda's traces, logs, etc.) 🪄 Smart region switching So far, works with Lambda, DDB, S3, Cloudwatch, and CFN. What else should I add? IAM? EC2?

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Rafal Wilinski

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Am I the only person annoyed by the fact that search in Amazon console is almost useless? Decided to do something with it - create a personalised, self-hosted, serverless resource search. imho AWS needs proper CMD+K desperately. Would you use it?

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2 years

My summary of USA after first week here as European: Everything is so extreme and bizarre.

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4 years

This is the first 4-figure week at @dynobase 🥳 Half a year ago, it was just a vague idea with no audience. Today it’s well-established product helping hundreds of developers around the world. Thanks @dvassallo @alexbdebrie @naval for motivation, help and inspiration.

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

0:04:45 - @houlihan_rick "Amazon had a project recently to migrate all of our relational workloads to NoSQL technologies..." in I think I'll start using this as a reference for all ppl who think that NoSQL is a terrible choice for relational data.

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Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

The more I work on @dynobase , the more similarities between gym and a startup I see: - Starting is always the hardest - Once you start doing it, becomes easier & more enjoyable - Showing up consistently > intense, but erratic - Pays off with compounding interest

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

You can already give CDK 2.0 and "Monolithic Packaging" a spin. All AWS services are finally available as one package. Great change!

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3 years

Even though I'm not a big fan of Offline @dynamodb , I know that it's immensely helpful, especially in the dev & testing phase. I've tried all the setup and usage methods, run through most common problems so you don't have to. Now go ship.

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How to run DynamoDB Local and Offline - Complete Guide

Learn how-to setup DynamoDB locally. Different setup options in this tutorial include Docker, Serverless Offline Plugin, Java & LocalStack.

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

There are bunch of best practices around Lambda/ #AWS SDK but they are all in the form of blog posts or tribal knowledge. At @StediInc , in the spirit of "automate everything, we decided to "codify" them as eslint rules. Contributions welcome.

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GitHub - Stedi-Archive/eslint-plugin-stedi-aws-rules: Best practices around using AWS SDK & Lambda...

Best practices around using AWS SDK & Lambda runtime in JavaScript / TypeScript projects by Stedi. - Stedi-Archive/eslint-plugin-stedi-aws-rules

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Rafal Wilinski

9 years

What I've learnt after 2,000,000 downloads in #gamedev with #unity3d

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2,000,000 Downloads Later — What I’ve learnt from Voxel Rush

It’s been a while since I’ve posted something on the internet, and it’s also the first time I’ve ever posted something on Medium. Up to…

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4 years

About one year ago, on August 10th 2019, I committed first lines of code for @dynobase . First 6 months generated $234 The next 6 months generated $32106 Traffic metrics below 👇

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

S3.GetObject in AWS SDK V3 for JS is an ideal example of how Amazon absolutely *not* customer obsessed.

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

The biggest surprise after operating @dynobase for 2 years and making almost $200k of profit: - Commits to the actual product: 1,138 - Emails & support messages sent (actually written, not automated): 1,948 🤯

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Rafal Wilinski

10 months

Friendship with X-Ray ended, now OpenTelemetry is my best friend.

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Rafal Wilinski

11 months

Sooo Aurora Serverless V2 is not having Data API? HTTP API gateway is still not having Rest API features? And don’t let me start about Cognito. What’s happening there?

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3 years

CDK, Terraform, Serverless Framework, Cloudformafion

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2 years

Look ma, I'm in AWS Console!

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3 years

TIL: There's a `aws dynamodb wizard new-table` command which guides you step-by-step through the table creation process. Nice.

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Rafal Wilinski

7 years

Just shipped my new 1day OSS side-project 💃 Yet another #IoT weather station 🙄 but this time #Serverless and without backend code 😎 Using: 🌥 @awscloud IOT, AppSync, DynamoDB ⚡️ @goserverless Framework 🔥 @FormidableLabs Victory Charts and Urql 👉

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3 years

We often hear that Serverless is cheaper but rarely get exact numbers 🧐 Another tool that might help you estimate your @dynamodb spend.

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DynamoDB Pricing & Cost Calculator (Free Tool)

Wondering how expensive is DynamoDB? Use this simple DynamoDB pricing calculator to estimate the cost of using DDB

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

Oh wow, writing JS without types sucks. A lot.

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Rafal Wilinski

4 years

Two months ago, I failed the last part of the recruitment process for a Staff Eng role at one of the popular cloud startups. That's fortunate because today I'm proud to introduce that I'm taking even more awesome role - the "Serverless Engineer" at 🥳

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2 years

Totally overwhelmed and grateful for all the job proposals I got from you all! Thanks.

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2 years

using Mastodon feels like going back to on-prem Docker development after tasting Serverless

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Rafal Wilinski

3 years

Guess who left a bunch of p3.2xlarge spot instances running for 2 weeks 🙃

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Rafal Wilinski

2 years

One of the best parts of working at @stedi is that I can steal great ideas from smarter coworkers and use them at my sidegig. This week: unauthenticated product experience. Try @dynobase 's read-only Single-table designer without even logging in:

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Claude AI pro tip Use Projects to store your schema.prisma / SQL structure dump and have AI perfectly know your data model so it can create diagrams and one-shot perfect data manipulation code for you.

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2 years

As of today, I have only exactly three years to get on Forbes 30 under 30 list. HBD to me!

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4 years

Domain bought. This means I'm probably ready to abandon this new project soon.

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2 years

Bizzare feature requests for Dynobase, S02E12: support for DynamoDB-local running on Kubernetes.

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2 years

Finally convinced myself to go through pain of integrating @dynobase with AWS Marketplace. I figured out how the Marketplace + monthly subscriptions flow looks like so you don't have to:

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4 years

@dabit3 And @readme too!

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2 years

It's official. @_cloudtempo is now live on Chrome Web Store & Edge Add-Ons. 🚀 Blazing fast ✨ Integrated nicely into the console 🌍 Cross-region searching 🎹 Contextual menus (e.g. show Lambda's traces, logs, etc) 🪄 Smart region switching Get it here:

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2 years

What the hell is happening? AWS is starting to delight us with DX? I really like this shift.

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AWS Application Composer is a huge step in visually designing AWS architectures. It allows you to quickly prototype your #serverless applications and deploy them using AWS Sam. Check this out!

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