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Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature

Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature

Aiden Vaines | Jul 20, 2026 | Thought Leadership Cloud AI
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New Shiny AWS FinOps Toys?

New Shiny AWS FinOps Toys?

Aiden Vaines | Jun 21, 2026 | Thought Leadership Cloud FinOps DevOps
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¡Hola, soy DORA. Why hasn’t AI improved my metrics?

¡Hola, soy DORA. Why hasn’t AI improved my metrics?

Aiden Vaines | May 9, 2026 | Thought Leadership AI DevOps Delivery
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The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning

The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning

Aiden Vaines | Mar 24, 2026 | Thought Leadership Security Supply Chain GitHub Actions Security
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Preparing for Quantum Computers That May or May Not Exist

Preparing for Quantum Computers That May or May Not Exist

Aiden Vaines | Mar 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership Quantum AWS Cryptography Security
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Terraform Six Years On (Retrospective)

Terraform Six Years On (Retrospective)

Aiden Vaines | Mar 2, 2026 | Thought Leadership IAC Terraform Retrospective
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JPEG Compression, but for Thought: AI as Clear-Text Encryption

JPEG Compression, but for Thought: AI as Clear-Text Encryption

Aiden Vaines | Jan 26, 2026 | Thought Leadership AI
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AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

Aiden Vaines | Jan 5, 2026 | Ai Aws Python Things
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Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er

Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er

Aiden Vaines | Nov 8, 2025 | Thought Leadership AI
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Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square

Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square

Aiden Vaines | Oct 22, 2024 | JavaScript Cloudflare Serverless
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Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

Aiden Vaines | Feb 25, 2024 | Terraform CICD AWS
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Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Aiden Vaines | Jan 11, 2023 | Terraform AWS

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An odd AWS EFS & Terraform AWS pagination issue

I know the AWS CLI is different to the AWS CDK used by the provider and the two are not the same. …

Aiden Vaines | Sep 20, 2022 | AWS Terraform
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Finding the most and least frequent list elements in JavaScript

The Problem

I love working through the Advent of Code puzzles, this year I decided it was a good …

Aiden Vaines | Feb 3, 2022 | JavaScript
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Triggering a Cloudflare Cache Purge from S3 Object Events

The Challenge

I’ve have been looking at some cost and performance improvements in some of my …

Aiden Vaines | Sep 18, 2021 | AWS Cloudflare
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CI/CD Agnostic, mono-repo pipelines for Firebase (Hosting, Database & Functions)

I have been trying to teach myself how to build a simple Node.JS API with a NoSQL backend. A few of …

Aiden Vaines | Jun 1, 2020 | CICD GCP JavaScript
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Starting with Terraform: Taxing, Tangled & Troublesome

One of the first tools I picked up walking in to the DevOps world was Terraform, I found it a bit …

Aiden Vaines | Oct 19, 2019 | Terraform AWS
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