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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 https://dev.to/vkazulkin
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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

"AWS Secrets Manager announces support for cost allocation tags for secrets". aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws...

"Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available". aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws...

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.

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"Introduction to the Architecture Decision Canvas" Making better architecture decisions together. by Patrick Roos www.workingsoftware.dev/introducing-...

"AI for Technical Program Managers and Software Managers". This article contains suggestions on how TPMs and SDMS can use AI to lead smarter in a technical program management or engineering leadership role. by Preetha Annamalai www.mariogerard.com/ai-for-techn...

"EM/PM Relationships Aren’t About Luck: 5 Tips for Product/Tech Teams". by Anna McDougall annajmcdougall.medium.com/em-pm-relati...

"The one messaging architecture no one tells you about (but everyone uses)". There’s one messaging architecture that almost every mature system ends up using — and hardly anyone talks about explicitly: Transactional Outbox + Polling Publisher. medium.com/@kanishks772...

"Scaling to 1 Million Users: The Architecture I Wish I Knew". by Himanshu Singour medium.com/@singourhima...

"Generating Creative Strategy Possibilities". Three Vectors of Exploration. by Roger Martin rogermartin.medium.com/generating-c...

"Are We Prepared for AWS Lambda’s INIT Phase Billing". by Hari Om medium.com/@hariom09090...

"Why Our CTO Banned Rust After One Rewrite". medium.com/@vardhanhars...

"Why Dropbox Switched to AWS Fargate: The Container Cost Trap They Escaped". This article dives into the cost trap Dropbox escaped, how Fargate transformed their cloud strategy, and a hands-on guide to deploy your own Fargate containers. by Amber Kakkar aws.plainenglish.io/why-dropbox-...

"Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces support for up to 10 secondary Regions". In this post, we dive deep into the new functionality and explore use cases it unlocks. aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...

"Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic". aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cl...

"Introducing AWS SimuLearn: Generative AI Practitioner". This free learning plan delivers immersive customer simulations powered by generative AI, so learners can develop both technical knowledge and essential soft skills in a risk-free environment. aws.amazon.com/blogs/traini...

"Secure distributed logging in scalable multi-account deployments using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain". In this post, we present a solution for securing distributed logging multi-account deployments using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...

"Can AI Replace Software Architects? 4 LLMs put to the test". levelup.gitconnected.com/can-ai-repla...

"Scaling to 1 Million Users: The Architecture I Wish I Knew Sooner". medium.com/@kanishks772...

New blog post alert 🚨 "Quarkus 3 application on #AWS Lambda- Part 3 Reducing Lambda cold starts with SnapStart and DynamoDB request priming". #Java #Serverless #Quarkus dev.to/aws-heroes/q...

"Detect hallucinations for RAG-based systems". This post shows how to create a basic hallucination detection system for RAG-based applications. We also weigh the pros and cons of different methods in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and cost. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mac...

"Amazon DynamoDB data modeling for Multi-Tenancy – Part 1". In this post, we define the access patterns and decide on the table design. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/dat...

"Using Amazon S3 Express One Zone as a caching layer for S3 Standard". We discuss a solution that automates the movement of data between S3 general purpose and directory buckets, to use the low latency and high throughput benefits of S3 Express One Zone. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/sto...

"How Coping Strategies Mask Themselves as Productivity". In efficient systems, people spend their time creating value. In inefficient ones-trying to cope. What % of the work in your organization exists only to manage the consequences of a poor system? by Joacim Harrby hups.com/blog/coping-...

"From GOOD to GREAT software engineer — How does the journey of growth look like?". Knowing how to do things doesn’t mean doing them, and without doing them, there is no growth, only perception of it. by Andrew Winnicki andrewwinnicki.medium.com/from-good-to...

"InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - 2025". www.infoq.com/articles/arc...

"AI Writes Better Code Than You" What's Next for Engineering Hiring? by Leonardo Borges leonardoborges.substack.com/p/tltd-21-ai...

"The hidden influences shaping your leadership style". Your #leadership style was largely built by people you’ve never even thanked. The Leadership Roots journaling exercise offers a method to examine these hidden influences. by @eskolehtme www.tsoon.com/posts/leader...

"How To Start Strong In Your First Week As An Engineering Manager". by Alex Ponomarev medium.com/engineering-...

Vadym Kazulkin "Implementing granular cost analysis for multi-tenant CloudFront distributions". This post focuses on 1 solution to provide CDN high-granularity cost transparency that is unavailable using AWS cost analysis tools such as AWS Budgets or AWS Cost Explorer. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/net...

"Securing Amazon S3 presigned URLs for #Serverless applications". This blog demonstrates how to leverage Amazon S3 presigned URLs to allow your users to securely upload files to S3 without requiring explicit permissions in the AWS Account. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/com...

"Accelerating Mainframe Modernization: Learn How Partners Are Leveraging AWS Transform". In this blog, we learn how our partners have been leveraging AWS Transform to deliver mainframe modernization projects & expand their modernization business practice. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/apn...

"Revolutionizing agricultural knowledge management using a multi-modal LLM: A reference architecture". It offers an document digitization solution that converts handwritten notes, scanned documents, & images into editable, searchable, & accessible formats aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/arc...

"Protect against advanced DNS threats with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall". In this post, we take you on a practical journey exploring these DNS-based threats and tools to help prevent them. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/sec...

"Amazon VPC adds CloudTrail logging for VPC resources created by default". This enhancement offers improved visibility of VPC resources and aids in auditing and governance. aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws...

"ECS adds support for EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization". This helps you provision & attach performant EBS volumes from EBS Snapshots to your ECS tasks, accelerating initialization for your ETL jobs, & ML inference workloads deployed on ECS. aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws...

"Simplify AWS AppSync Events integration with Powertools for AWS Lambda". You’ll learn how to: -Set up event handlers using the AppSyncEventsResolver -Implement different event processing patterns -Leverage built-in features for common use cases aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mob...

"How to enhance your application resiliency using Amazon Q Developer". We will demonstrate how Amazon Q improves the resiliency of a foundational application architecture. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/dev...

"Build a financial research assistant using Amazon Q Business and Amazon QuickSight for generative AI–powered insights". aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mac...

"Playbook for Effective 1:1s". A concrete plan for effective meetings without the management theater. by Joshua Herzig-Marx jhm.fyi/p/playbook-f...

"Embedding a Great Engineering Culture". This article focuses on the framework's “embed” step, where we take the values made in the “define”step and codify the values and culture into as much of the business as you can. by Mark Grebler mgrebler.substack.com/p/embedding-...

"Running GenAI Inference with AWS Graviton and Arcee AI Models". In this post we share how GenAI inference workloads running AI models from Arcee AI can be optimized using AWS Graviton-based instances. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/apn...

"How Pendulum achieves 6x faster processing and 40% cost reduction with Amazon S3 Tables". This eliminated engineering maintenance & streamlined management of multiple mission-critical tables, replacing their previous manual optimization process. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/sto...

"Building an AI Stack for Banking on AWS". The banks who are delivering value from Gen AI and ML investments are building AI stacks that are scalable and well governed. They accelerate proofs-of-concept into production reliably so that business needs are met. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/ind...

"Announcing AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC Endpoints". We will cover an example scenario where an unauthorized user tries to access your S3 buckets via VPC endpoints. aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/mt/...