Deep Dive Into Cloud & AI

Articles covering a variety of topics from experts working in the field. No AI generated slop, here.

Paul Chin Jr.

Paul Chin Jr. is a curious human, prophet of Nicolas Cage, & cloud native engineer. <3's to chat about the future, cooking, & automation.

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January 30, 2026

Syntax Is What You Typed. Systems Are What You Built

Syntax matters early, but systems define outcomes. Cloud examples show how events, queues, and storage shape behavior through time, load, and change.

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December 10, 2025

Better the Devil You NoSQL

Johnny Blaze didn’t escape his curse; he learned to ride with it. The same is true for any developer learning to balance NoSQL freedom with SQL discipline. DynamoDB lights the fire. Aurora DSQL shapes it into purpose.

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August 11, 2025

How Alignment completes IAM for Agentic Development

Dropping production tables used to be an intern’s job. Now, AI’s doing it faster, with more confidence, and occasionally fabricating a reason afterward. Progress? Maybe. Safer? Not without guardrails.

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November 20, 2024

The Evolution of Serverless: From Compute to Full-Stack Cloud Architectures

Ten years ago, AWS Lambda brought mainframe time-sharing back into vogue, allowing developers to run code without managing servers. But what if the features we see today—enabling full-stack serverless architectures—had been available from the start?

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May 15, 2024

Choose Your Character: Same Service, Different Tools ( Part 4 )

Greetings Curious Humans! We’re back with another installment of “Same Service, Different Tools”. Parts 1 to 3 covered SAM, CDK, and Terraform. Today, we’ll explore Architect, a serverless framework focusing on speed and developer agility.

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May 3, 2024

Choose Your Character: Same Service, Different Tools ( Part 3 )

Welcome Back! In our last adventure, we used CDK to build and deploy our file upload service. This time, we’re leaving the realm of first-party AWS tools and using Terraform from Hashicorp.

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April 22, 2024

Choose Your Character: Same Service, Different Tools ( Part 2 )

In the previous article we used SAM to build and deploy a service that facilitates a file uploaded to an S3 bucket and asynchronously writes the file’s metadata to Dynamodb, which we can query. Now we’ll use another first-party AWS tool called "CDK".

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April 11, 2024

Choose Your Character: Same Service, Different Tools ( Part 1 )

There are a lot of options when it comes to building serverless systems. Join along as we build the same service with different frameworks and tools. Cloud engineering is all about understanding requirements and making choices based on tradeoffs.

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March 14, 2024

AWS minus AWS

When I find myself facing an inevitability, like using AWS, I start to imagine a reality without it. Every piece of software needs a CPU, some working memory, and some data storage. What if we find a version of AWS minus AWS?

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June 4, 2022

Securing Against Supply Chain Disruption

All code is vulnerable and we are all responsible for its security. When the next vulnerability comes, will you be prepared? This article will cover the basics so you'll be ready no matter what.

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Paul Chin Jr.

Paul Chin Jr. is a curious human, prophet of Nicolas Cage, & cloud native engineer. <3's to chat about the future, cooking, & automation.

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