Personal letters. Not a tutorial or a course. Real world reflections, lessons from learning, and honest thoughts from the journey.
All Letters (15)
2026
- EP15: Migrating from NAT Instances to AWS NAT Gateway
- EP14: AWS KMS Was Faster Than bcrypt on Lambda
- EP13: AWS 28-Hour Outage - Not a Code Bug or Bad Deployment
- EP12: Learning System Design | URL Shortener | Part 4 API Design
- EP11: Learning System Design | URL Shortener | Part 3 Database Engineering
- EP10: Learning System Design | URL Shortener | Part 2 Engineering for Scale
- EP9: Learning System Design | URL Shortener | Part 1 Asking Better Questions
- EP8: My System Design Foundations Journey
- EP7: What Remote Work Really Feels Like on the Road
- EP6: Taking Back Ownership of CloudwithAlon Using AI
- EP5: My Experience On Passing AWS Developer Certification
- EP4: My 2026 AWS Cloud Architect Roadmap