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Vadym Kazulkin

@vkazulkin.bsky.social
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Husband and papa of 3 | International speaker | AWS Serverless Hero | Huge Java fan | 👨‍💻 as Head of Development at ip.labs | Co-Org of Java User Group Bonn. On intersection of people, business and technology. Blogging on dev.to/vkazulkin

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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New blog post alert 🚨 "Micronaut 4 application on #AWS Lambda- Part 1 Introduction to the sample application and first Lambda performance measurements". #Java #Serverless #Micronaut dev.to/aws-heroes/m...
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Micronaut 4 application on AWS Lambda- Part 1 Introduction to the sample application and first Lambda performance measurements
What will we explore and learn in this article series? In this article series, we will...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New blog post alert 🚨 "#Quarkus 3 application on #AWS Lambda- Part 7 Introducing extended API Gateway request event Lambda SnapStart priming". #Serverless #Java dev.to/aws-heroes/q...
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Quarkus 3 application on AWS Lambda- Part 7 Introducing extended API Gateway request event Lambda SnapStart priming
Introduction In the article AWS SnapStart - Using insights from AWS Lambda Profiler...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 2: Authentication on MCP". In Part 2 of this blog series we dive deep into authentication in the latest version of the MCP specification and discuss some of the contributions from AWS in this release. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/ope...
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Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 2: Authentication on MCP | Amazon Web Services
In Part 1 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability we covered how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be used to facilitate inter-agent communication and the MCP specification ...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"AWS costs estimation using Amazon Q CLI and AWS Cost Analysis MCP". In this post, we explore how to use Amazon Q CLI with the AWS Cost Analysis MCP server to perform sophisticated cost analysis that follows AWS best practices. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mac...
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AWS costs estimation using Amazon Q CLI and AWS Cost Analysis MCP | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we explore how to use Amazon Q CLI with the AWS Cost Analysis MCP server to perform sophisticated cost analysis that follows AWS best practices. We discuss basic setup and advanced techn...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"Supercharging AWS database development with AWS MCP servers". This post focuses on the following database services: Amazon Aurora – MCP servers for Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL DynamoDB – MCP server for DynamoDB ElastiCache – Valkey and Memcached aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/dat...
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Supercharging AWS database development with AWS MCP servers | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon ElastiCache are popular choices for developers powering critical workloads, including global commerce platforms, financial systems, and real-time analytics a...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New blog post alert 🚨 "Quarkus 3 application on #AWS Lambda- Part 6 Optimization strategies for the cold and warm starts". #Quarkus #Java #Serverless dev.to/aws-heroes/q...
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Quarkus 3 application on AWS Lambda- Part 6 Optimization strategies for the cold and warm starts
Introduction In the previous articles of the series about how to develop, run and optimize...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"Stream data from Amazon MSK to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 and S3 Tables using Data Firehose". We walk through two solutions that demonstrate how to stream data from your MSK provisioned cluster to Iceberg-based data lakes in S3 using Firehose. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/big...
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Stream data from Amazon MSK to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Tables using Amazon Data Firehose | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we walk through two solutions that demonstrate how to stream data from your Amazon MSK provisioned cluster to Iceberg-based data lakes in Amazon S3 using Amazon Data Firehose.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"What a Distributed System Can Teach You About Managing Stress". Stress, too, is a kind of failure mode. by Tobenna Odua medium.com/illumination...
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What a Distributed System Can Teach You About Managing Stress
What software design patterns reveal about sustainable work, resilience, and the human need to pause
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"How to prioritize security risks using AWS Security Hub exposure findings". This integration helps organizations quickly identify critical security issues, from potential credential compromises to unintended resource exposures. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/sec...
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How to prioritize security risks using AWS Security Hub exposure findings | Amazon Web Services
At re:Inforce 2025, AWS unveiled an enhanced AWS Security Hub that transforms how organizations prioritize their most critical security issues and respond at scale to protect their cloud environments....
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"9 Signs You’re Promoting Mediocrity In Your Team" Have you become too accommodating, too hands off and too vague in how you communicate expectations, leaving a gap for complacency and low standards to creep in? code.likeagirl.io/9-signs-your...
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9 Signs You’re Promoting Mediocrity In Your Team
Have you become too accommodating, too hands off and too vague in how you communicate expectations, leaving a gap for complacency and low…
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"Conway’s Law". The real architecture was decided long before the first line of code was written. It was determined the moment teams were formed. by Christos Galanopoulos medium.com/@christosgal...
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Conway’s Law
Every organization believes it designs its systems deliberately. Architecture diagrams are drawn, interfaces are defined, boundaries are…
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
On June 19 I'll pariticpate on the @lu.voxxeddays.com (luxembourg.voxxeddays.com/en/) and speak about "How to develop, run and optimize Spring Boot 3 application on #AWS Lambda" (mobile.devoxx.com/events/voxxe...). #Serverless #Java #GraalVM
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Build generative AI solutions with Amazon Bedrock". This guide is valuable for both experienced AI engineers and newcomers to the generative AI space, helping you use Amazon Bedrock to its fullest potential. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mac...
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Build generative AI solutions with Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we show you how to build generative AI applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using the capabilities of Amazon Bedrock, highlighting how Amazon Bedrock can be used at each step of you...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"From raw to refined: building a data quality pipeline with AWS Glue and S3 Tables". We show how to automatically validate data quality at scale using prebuilt and custom rules, monitor quality metrics across your data lake, and set up automated remediation workflows. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/sto...
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From raw to refined: building a data quality pipeline with AWS Glue and Amazon S3 Tables | Amazon Web Services
Organizations often struggle to extract maximum value from their data lakes when running generative AI and analytics workloads due to data quality challenges. Although data lakes excel at storing mass...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Deploy Qwen models with Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import". We cover how to deploy Qwen 2.5 models with Bedrock Custom Model Import, making them accessible to organizations looking to use state-of-the-art AI capabilities within the AWS infrastructure. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mac...
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Deploy Qwen models with Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import | Amazon Web Services
You can now import custom weights for Qwen2, Qwen2_VL, and Qwen2_5_VL architectures, including models like Qwen 2, 2.5 Coder, Qwen 2.5 VL, and QwQ 32B. In this post, we cover how to deploy Qwen 2.5 mo...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Query Amazon S3 Tables from open source Trino using Apache Iceberg REST endpoint". We walk through the set up process of using the S3 Tables table management APIs that are compatible with the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog standard. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/sto...
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Query Amazon S3 Tables from open source Trino using Apache Iceberg REST endpoint | Amazon Web Services
Organizations are increasingly focused on addressing the growing challenge of managing and analyzing vast data volumes, while making sure that their data teams have timely access to this data to enabl...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"Effective cost optimization strategies for Amazon Bedrock". In this post, you’ll learn about strategic cost optimization techniques while using Amazon Bedrock. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...
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Effective cost optimization strategies for Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services
With the increasing adoption of Amazon Bedrock, optimizing costs is a must to help keep the expenses associated with deploying and running generative AI applications manageable and aligned with your o...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"Powertools for AWS Lambda introduces Bedrock Agents Function utility". It eases to create AWS Lambda functions that can respond to Bedrock Agent action requests with built-in parameter injection, response formatting and eliminating boilerplate code. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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Powertools for AWS Lambda introduces Bedrock Agents Function utility - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Powertools for AWS Lambda introduces Bedrock Agents Function utility
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New blog post alert 🚨 "#Quarkus 3 application on #AWS Lambda- Part 5 Measuring Lambda cold and warm starts with #Graal VM Native Image". #AWS #Serverless #Java dev.to/aws-heroes/q...
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Quarkus 3 application on AWS Lambda- Part 5 Measuring Lambda cold and warm starts with GraalVM Native Image
Introduction In the part 1 of our series about how to develop, run and optimize Quarkus...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"If I started learning AI Agents & no-code Automation in 2025, here’s what I’d do to move 10x faster" The ultimate, no-fluff learning guide for non-tech beginners. by Kris Ograbek ai.gopubby.com/if-i-started...
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If I started learning AI Agents & no-code Automation in 2025, here’s what I’d do to move 10x faster
The ultimate, no-fluff learning guide for non-tech beginners.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"Designing resilient systems: What every engineering manager should know". How architectural patterns like retries, circuit breakers, and bulkheads can save your system — and your sanity. by Shushyam Malige Sharanappa levelup.gitconnected.com/designing-re...
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Designing resilient systems: What every software development manager should know
How architectural patterns like retries, circuit breakers, and bulkheads can save your system — and your sanity.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Mindsets That Shape Software Delivery Team Structures". medium.com/@rethinkyour...
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Mindsets That Shape Software Delivery Team Structures
Many tech companies follow modern delivery practices but still use outdated methods, especially in team structures and leadership roles…
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Building a Multi-Agent AI System with LangGraph and LangSmith" A step-by-step guide to creating smarter AI with sub-agents. by Fareed Khan levelup.gitconnected.com/building-a-m...
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Building a Multi-Agent AI System with LangGraph and LangSmith
A step-by-step guide to creating smarter AI with sub-agents
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Remote Teams Need Systems, Not Surveillance" by Alex Ponomarev medium.com/engineering-...
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Remote Teams Need Systems, Not Surveillance
Stop micromanaging, start leading.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Managing Multi-Account Costs with AWS Organizations". medium.com/@sheeraz-tre...
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Managing Multi-Account Costs with AWS Organizations
Centralize governance, enforce budgets, and unlock volume discounts across AWS accounts.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"The Role of Alignment". by Pawel Brodzinski brodzinski.com/2025/05/role...
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The Role of Alignment - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
High autonomy, high alignment environment is optimal organizational model. Aligning individual efforts must happen before sharing autonomy.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Pivotal Role of Distributed Autonomy". In principle, giving people more autonomy at work is the largest organizational challenge the modern workplace faces. by Pawel Brodzinski brodzinski.com/2025/05/dist...
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Pivotal Role of Distributed Autonomy - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
Distributed autonomy is a crucial part of the modern workplace. Global economic changes require it as much as everyday tasks.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Level up your developer experience" Five practical strategies for engineering teams. by Sunit Parekh and Pramida Tumma brodzinski.com/2025/05/role...
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The Role of Alignment - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
High autonomy, high alignment environment is optimal organizational model. Aligning individual efforts must happen before sharing autonomy.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"What Real Feedback Sounds Like" You’ve probably faced these exact situations. Here’s how to finally say the thing. by Claire Lew newsletter.canopy.is/p/what-real-...
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What Real Feedback Sounds Like
You’ve probably faced these exact situations. Here’s how to finally say the thing.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"When a team is too big" What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset. by Alex Ewerloef blog.alexewerlof.com/p/when-a-tea...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Your Organization is a System — Engineering Management Through an Architectural Lens" by Yuji Isobe medium.com/@yujiisobe/y...
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Your Organization is a System — Engineering Management Through an Architectural Lens
After 15 years in engineering (12 as an EM, VPoE, or CTO), I’ve learned that managing teams is a lot like designing software systems.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Upgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version". aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/dat...
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Upgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version | Amazon Web Services
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance for applications at any scale. DynamoDB global tables is a multi-active database featur...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Unlocking the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) on AWS". aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mac...
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Unlocking the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) on AWS | Amazon Web Services
We’ve witnessed remarkable advances in model capabilities as generative AI companies have invested in developing their offerings. Language models such as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 & Sonnet 4 and Amazo...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Amazon API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs". This new capability enables you to dynamically route incoming requests based on HTTP header values, URL base paths, or a combination of both. aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws...
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Amazon API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New blog post alert🚨 " #Quarkus 3 application on AWS Lambda- Part 4 Reducing Lambda cold starts with SnapStart and API Gateway request event priming". #Java #Serverless #AWS dev.to/aws-heroes/q...
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Quarkus 3 application on AWS Lambda- Part 4 Reducing Lambda cold starts with SnapStart and API Gateway request event priming
Introduction In the part 1 of our series about how to develop, run and optimize Quarkus...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Visualizing Amazon DynamoDB data with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Managed Grafana". You will learn how to gain insights from your data more quickly and efficiently without complex ETL processes aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mt/...
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Visualizing Amazon DynamoDB data with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Managed Grafana | Amazon Web Services
High-performance applications with unlimited throughput capabilities pose significant monitoring challenges, especially when tracking real-time metrics, utilization, and throttling events across distr...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Implement prescription validation using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon DynamoDB". Create an AI agent that helps healthcare providers quickly identify potential drug interactions by validating new prescriptions against a patient’s current medication records. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/dat...
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Implement prescription validation using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon Web Services
Healthcare providers manage an ever-growing volume of patient data and medication information to help ensure safe, effective treatment. Although traditional database systems excel at storing patient r...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Breaking the Monolith: How Microservices and #Serverless Transformed Our Architecture". medium.com/@hariom09090...
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Breaking the Monolith: How Microservices and Serverless Transformed Our Architecture
When our e-commerce platform crashed during a Black Friday sale, losing thousands of orders in hours, we knew our monolithic architecture…
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale". Event-driven architectures often break under pressure due to retries, backpressure, and startup latency, especially during load spikes. by Rajesh Pandey @InfoQ www.infoq.com/articles/sca...
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Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale
Learn how to design resilient event-driven systems that scale. Explore key patterns like shuffle sharding and decoupling queues to handle load spikes and failures. Understand common pitfalls like over...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"When Events Trigger Intelligence: Streaming Patterns for #Serverless GenAI Inference" Key Architectural Patterns and Best Practices for Real-Time LLM Inference in Serverless Streams. by Rajesh Pandey coldstarts.substack.com/p/when-event...
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When Events Trigger Intelligence: Streaming Patterns for Serverless GenAI Inference
Key Architectural Patterns and Best Practices for Real-Time LLM Inference in Serverless Streams
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Check out my article series: " #AWS Lambda Profiler Extension for #Java" (dev.to/vkazulkin/se...). Introduction + how this profiler helped me identify further SnapStart priming optimization potential and to increase Lambda performance . #Serverless
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets". aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws...
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AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available". aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws...
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Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications. Yo...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Java turned 30 years. I was happy to be interviewed by the german Java Magazin about the #Java highlights (and not only) along with others very known people from the community.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"The 1-Minute Introduction That Makes People Remember You Forever" A Behavioral Scientist’s Trick to Hack the “Halo Effect” by Alessia Fransisca medium.com/social-scien...
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The 1-Minute Introduction That Makes People Remember You Forever
A Behavioral Scientist’s Trick to Hack the “Halo Effect”
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"Claude 4.0 Is Finally Here". Now let’s talk about what’s new and how the models Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 actually perform. by Jim Clyde Monge generativeai.pub/claude-4-0-i...
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Claude 4.0 Is Finally Here
Anthropic has finally released the much-anticipated Claude 4 AI models.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"System Design: Building TikTok-Style Video Feed for 100 Million Users" A deep dive into architecture, scalability, and real-time data delivery at scale by Animesh Gaitonde itnext.io/system-desig...
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System Design: Building TikTok-Style Video Feed for 100 Million Users
A deep dive into architecture, scalability, and real-time data delivery at scale
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture". Authros explored the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation. by Rashmi Venugopal and Almir Vuk www.infoq.com/articles/fun...
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Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
Rashmi Venugopal explores the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation. Rashmi discusses various strategies to...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"The Evolution of Developer Marketing: From Open Source to AI". The fundamentals of effective developer marketing remain true even in today’s AI-augmented development environments. Offer genuine value. by Adam Monago www.adammonago.com/evolution-de...
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The Evolution of Developer Marketing: From Open Source to AI
The evolution of developer marketing emphasizes authenticity, transparency, and community engagement. ThoughtWorks exemplifies this with its value-first approach, focusing on practical resources li…
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"Introduction to the Architecture Decision Canvas" Making better architecture decisions together. by Patrick Roos www.workingsoftware.dev/introducing-...
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Introduction to the Architecture Decision Canvas: Making better architecture decisions together
A visual, collaborative technique for decision-making in software architecture. With the Architecture Decision Canvas you can coordinate teams, weigh up options and work on decisions.
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