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I built a serverless internet health monitor because I wanted an excuse to learn Lambda MicroVMs. The better lesson was that Barometer did not need the newest primitive. It needed the boring, correct fit between the tool and the job.
★Complexity is inevitable in modern engineering. Drag is optional. The work of leadership is turning repeated friction into platforms, defaults, and systems that help teams move faster with trust intact.
★After two greenfield cloud builds in financial services, these are the decisions that aged well, the ones I would redo, and why the small choices in year one decide whether you have a platform or a pile in year five.
★The most strategic AI decision is not which model to use — it is knowing when generic intelligence is not enough. AWS Nova Forge marks the shift from consuming AI to owning a specialized slice of it, and why that middle path is where enterprise AI actually lives.
Just like Cloud before, today's AI transformation demands companies rebuild their operating models, leadership structures, and developer experience instead of retrofitting AI onto existing workflows.
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