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Vlad Ionescu (he/him)

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sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards 🏳️‍🌈he/him🏳️‍🌈

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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 07/10/2025
As a complete aside, it have been nice for AWS to also maintain, update, and enhance the github.com/bottlerocket... 🙃
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GitHub - bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket-ecs-updater: A service to automatically manage Bottlerocket updates in an Amazon ECS cluster.
A service to automatically manage Bottlerocket updates in an Amazon ECS cluster. - bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket-ecs-updater
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 07/10/2025
Are the images used that different from the official Bottlerocket ECS AMIs at docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/la... ? They would have to automate the AMI rollout which, assuming folks aren't using pet EC2s, is not *that* complex. It's not easy but it's not "13% of EC2 spend" levels of complex either
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Ben Bridts @benbridts.be · 26/06/2025
I did a fun thing and gave every Belgian access to my AWS Account (or: playing around with IAM Roles Anywhere) cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
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Sign in with your eID: Using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with a SmartCard Reader
Using temporary credentials to access resources, has long been a best practice and is usually straight-forward if the person or machine that is starting the action is already known in AWS (either by u...
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 19/06/2025
Wooo welcome to Bucharest 🎉👋🎉
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/06/2025
(I felt that I had to reply to this since I was a big fan of AVP's potential aaaaaand then I totally dissapeared from social media)
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/06/2025
AVP isn't a product that AWS takes seriously so I'd suggest also taking a look at Oso 😅
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 03/05/2025
Woooo 🎉🤗🎉
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Clemens Vasters @clemens.vasters.com · 30/04/2025
"To further cement the nexus between Microsoft and Europe, going forward our European datacenter operations and their boards will be overseen by a European board of directors that consists exclusively of European nationals and operates under European law." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
blogs.microsoft.com
Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Microsoft On the Issues
As a multinational company, Microsoft believes in trans-Atlantic ties that promote mutual economic growth and prosperity.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/04/2025
*hugs* This was also (one of the reasons) I was driven away from social media / dramatically reduced my public web presence too. The tech community is wildly toxic but the open-source fanatics are... a particular level of abhorrent
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 13/03/2025
Lol, I would argue that before moats they need an actual product first (you know, something that's not a short-lived feature arbitrage)
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/01/2025
Hey @rmondello.com, if I remember correctly you were collecting feedback for Passwords. Is that still a thing? If yes, I have 1.5 feature requests targeting power-users. If no, no worries! Passwords is still a heck of a lot more awesome than I expected and I will still fully migrate to it ❣️
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/11/2024
It was all custom — some using GitHub Actions, some using custom tools.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/11/2024
Still, this is not trivial to implement and, worse, this requires a serious company and serious developers (not only software engineers but product, testing, sales, support, etc). That's surprisingly rare so... yeah, it'll remain a super-high-performing thing that few people talk about :(
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/11/2024
A few teams measured this and the metrics after 6 months were *mindblowingly* better! One exception: on-boarding slowed a bit :lolsob: It was so hard getting new devs in and having them get used to "no, seriously, if checks are green we ship whatever to prod and it's fine! We have intense checks!"
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/11/2024
My answer: not enough tooling. I worked with a bunch of teams that did post-PR code reviews (if the code is under a feature flag => PR is automatically approved, merged, and deployed to prod) but the setup required was non-trivial 😞 Everybody (including compliance) was super-happy with it tho!
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 22/10/2024
🙋
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 17/09/2024
They fixed it, with impressive speed: the docs are now a lot clearer and even the changelog has been updated with additional details ❣️ AWS received feedback and they took super-prompt action to address it — awesome job AWS!
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/09/2024
I was annoyed I was missing it but now I am properly devastated I won't be there 😭
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/09/2024
They have everything: from high-scale stuff (how delivery works at Tazz) to fast prototyping (prototype to prod in ~6 months with both tech and non-tech drama) to executive strategy, and so much more. There's even a preview for re:Invent 2024!
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/09/2024
Holy heck does the the agenda for AWS Community Day Romania look awesome 🤯 I mean I was expecting it to be *good* but I wan't expecting it to be *this good*. It's amazing! aws-community.ro#agenda
aws-community.ro
AWS Community Day Romania
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 15/09/2024
Fix is coming, as per the attached conversation with an AWS WAF PM.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
AWS WAF Bot Control moving bots from "un-verified" to "verified" means that bots that were previously blocked by default will now just get... counted. Totally unexpected and not at all clear, right? Don't you think this deserved a warning in the docs/announcement? 14/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
Folks can of course change the default actions but we all know the power of defaults. See Internet Explorer, Apple, Google, Chrome, and all the new cases on this topic 🫠 13/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
By default, un-verified bots are a BLOCK. If AWS WAF Bot Control doesn't know how to check the bot is indeed who it's saying it is, that means that it could be an attacker pretending to be a bot, so it is blocked by default. 12/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
By default, verified bots are a COUNT. AWS WAF Bot Control is able to guarantee this is indeed the bot it's saying it is, so the request is neither blocked nor allowed. 11/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
Each AWS WAF rule/check can take one of 3 actions: - BLOCK = immediately block this request - ALLOW = immediately allow this request, do not run any of the next checks on the list - COUNT = mark this request, and continue with the next checks in the list 10/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
AWS WAFs are, roughly, a list of rules/checks that are applied to every request that comes in. The AWS WAF Bot Control is a list of these checks made specifically to check bots. 9/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
(Anthropic does not publish those IP addresses publicly but let's not get into that) If both 1️⃣ and 2️⃣ check out, then it means the request is indeed from ClaudeBot and this is marked as a verified bot request. 8/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
When AWS WAF gets a request from something saying is Anthropic's ClaudeBot, AWS will check that: 1️⃣ the bot request looks like Anthropic told AWS it would look like 2️⃣ the bot request does indeed come from an IP address that Anthropic told AWS it uses to send bot requests 7/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
Side-note: bot verification means AWS does some checking to see that it's not some random person sending requests from their laptop pretending they're GoogleBot or Anthropic's ClaudeBot, for example. 6/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
It's unclear what bots exactly (you can ask and AWS might or might not tell you), but some AWS employees publicly hinted that Anthropic's ClaudeBot is included in the list 🤷 5/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
Do they make it clear what changed in the docs? No. What actually changed was that AWS WAF Bot Control now supports bot verification for some bots in the following categories: - CategoryAI - SignalAutomatedBrowser - SignalKnownBotDataCenter - SignalNonBrowserUserAgent 4/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
In the announcement AWS very nicely calls out that "AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule Group now supports 19 new bots, including several verified AI bots, in various categories". Do they spell out what that means? No. Do they explain what that means in the changelog? No. 3/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
This Friday evening AWS launched a new version of the AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule Group: version 3.0. To be fair, customers have to manually upgrade to this latest version — no auto-upgrades or unexpected changes. That's good 👍 Changes being unclear and impactful👎 2/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
⚠️AWS WAF Bot Control v3.0 will no longer block some AI bots by default❗ I'm breaking my social media no-no and pulling this out of OtherSecretProject since I bet a bunch of people won't carefully read the changelog and docs and AWS intentionally did not call this out 🤦 1/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 09/08/2024
FYI: just 11 days left to send your talk proposals for AWS Community Day Romania! 🚀🇷🇴🚀
Call for speakers! Register to become a speaker on aws-community.ro by 20 August 2024. AWS Community Day Romania, happening in Timisoara, on 3 October 2024, at the Iulius Congress Hall.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 06/04/2024
Nevermind.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 30/03/2024
Apropos of nothing: after the Log4Shell drama the Log4j team got a massive influx of support, a huge and constant influx of money, expert assistance, and corporations&governments started actively supporting their open-source dependencies. Yes yes yes, that is 100% what happened 🙃
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 30/03/2024
FYI: I am very annoyed with social media but I don't wanna give it up so I'll be trying some things. Considered but dismissed for now: - going private - limiting replies + mass blocking - hiding behind a paywall (Twitter subscriptions) - moving off-platform (private groups)
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/03/2024
Flox is an alternative to the Devpod that ships with Bluefin 🙂
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/03/2024
Well, that's a full Linux distribution (with extra helpful things and config) 😅 I sure as heck don't wanna move from macOS to Linux. A bunch of very happy .NET developers don't wanna move from Windows to Linux. Bluefin is... a much more intense proposal.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/03/2024
Let's hope Flox fixes this cause they're the only ones that seem to be serious 🤞
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/03/2024
As an aside, it's fabulous how Cloud Developer Environments (CDEs) failed and were utterly destroyed by Apple Silicon. Literally ALL providers failed to adapt, but they're trying — see JetBrains Gateway. We're back to like the 2010s: there's literally no easy way to setup dev envs 😞
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/03/2024
This looks fabulous 🤩 YAS, this is how I want to manage developer environments! TL;DR: Nix but with a proper user experience, similar to what Docker did to containers. It's barely v1 but it looks great and the Flox team seems brilliant 🤞 flox.dev/blog/flox-wh...
flox.dev
flox | Why we built Flox
Flox CLI 1.0 and FloxHub is here! It's a good opportunity to reflect on our own experiences and the reasons we feel Flox is a part of the next generation of software development practices.
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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 19/03/2024
If you’re in Paris for KubeCon EU, I’d love to see you! I’ve even 3D printed some earrings to give away!
This image shows me with short, pastel pink hair and blue eyes. I am wearing large, tortoiseshell-framed glasses, and have a black leather jacket on. Notable accessories include distinctive blue earrings with the Kubernetes logo, and a layered necklace. My makeup is natural with a soft pink lip color, and I am standing indoors with a partial view of a door in the background.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/03/2024
Ahem, 13:30GMT is 9:30ET which is when the US stock market opens 😅 Considering the article was posted Friday evening right after trading closed it's a reasonable assumption to expect an announcement or some clarifications Monday morning riiight before pre-trading/market open
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/03/2024
APAC&EMEA are up and I'm getting way too many DMs about Bloomberg's report that HashiCorp is considering options (including a sale) Let's all chill until 13:30GMT first, m'kay? At that point we'll either 1) know more or 2) not know more and we'll chill because this isn't something we can control 🧘
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 17/03/2024
FYI: I am not at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon — I am not doing in-person conferences in 2024. I'm sorry I won't get to see y'all and I am full of FOMO so please have some extra fun for me!
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/03/2024
Person 1: so cloud is somebody else's computer/data-center the same way a dildo is someone else's penis. you know, technically true but so not true — we have glow-in-the-dark ones and dragons and all that Person 2: oh, it's an evolving definition — like the camembert and brie thing! Me:
Person saying "You are all doing great" while eating popcorn and being very entertained
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/03/2024
Late December: I start using App1 more seriously Mid-January: I start using App2 seriously March, looking at the changelogs for both apps: 8 and 12 updates aaand literally every single one has at least 1 bugfix for me 🤣 Ah, I love seeing that my chaotic QA spirit is very much alive 💪
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