ADAvinash Dalviininternetkatta.com·7h ago · 11 min readAWS Blocks: What It Can Do, Where It Breaks, and Whether It Fits Your ProductHello Devs, For the past few weeks I have been digging into AWS Blocks. I learned so much that I wanted to share an honest review of the product from my point of view. For this purpose I dove deep int00
NBNishanth Binnishanth.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 4 min readAutomating Amazon EBS Snapshot Cleanup Using AWS LambdaIntroduction Amazon EBS snapshots are essential for backing up EC2 volumes. However, over time they accumulate, increasing storage costs and making backup management difficult. Instead of manually del00
AAndrewinrizzdev.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 9 min readDynamic Workers match how agents write codeDynamic Workers match the way agents write programs against APIs, not the way coding agents shell into a Linux box. That is the only reading of "first" this post will defend. Read it as "first sandbox00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 7 min readEngineering the RoadIntelligence IDE: a serverless brain that verifies road hazards, pays for truth, and shows its reasoningEngineering the RoadIntelligence IDE: a serverless brain that verifies road hazards, pays for truth, and shows its reasoning How we built the cloud that turns cryptographically-signed road events into00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 8 min readEpisode 5: An IDE that shows its workEpisode 5: An IDE that shows its work Why the analytical layer is a workspace of specialist agents rather than a dashboard of numbers, and why every step of the agent's reasoning is streamed to the op00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 9 min readEpisode 4: Verification is decoupled from ingestion by a streamEpisode 4: Verification is decoupled from ingestion by a stream Why the door that accepts an event and the brain that judges it never call each other, how a filtered DynamoDB stream sits between them,00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 9 min readEpisode 3: Paying a reward is a database transactionEpisode 3: Paying a reward is a database transaction Why crediting a reward is a single three-item DynamoDB transaction, why the ledger is hash-chained, and how double-payment became structurally impo00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 8 min readEpisode 2: Why the expensive AI only sees 2% of eventsEpisode 2: Why the expensive AI only sees 2% of events Probabilistic verification — a deterministic fast path for 98% of events, a vision-language model and a Bedrock agent for the ambiguous 2%, and w00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 10 min readEpisode 1: Trust nothing you didn't verifyEpisode 1: Trust nothing you didn't verify Two ingestion doors, two cryptographic schemes — hardware ECDSA from the Pi, Ed25519 from the phone — and why the cloud reconstructs a 96-byte struct byte-fo00
BMBillie Minbilliem.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 8 min readFree compute worth claiming in August 2026There is enough free infrastructure to assemble a serious side-project stack. The difficult part is knowing which pieces fail safely. A hard-capped service stops. A billing-linked allowance can charge00
