@efekarakus

Software engineer @awscloud. On Bluesky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/rqwcwfU4G5

 Seattle, WA
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I wrote down my thoughts and reactions to the “end of programming”. Especially reflecting on the past year or so, on why quality has degraded even though we have such amazing tools boosting productivity at our fingertips. efekarakus.com/2026/09/03/re…

A retrospective on productivity and (lack?) of quality with coding agents

On one end of the spectrum, people are achieving tremendous feats of engineering, such as the massive rewrite of Bun from Zig to Rust. Folks are pointing to achievements like this as a preview of the...

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Reflections on the benefits and costs of duplicating projects within a large organization, along with key questions for cost assessment during design. efekarakus.com/2024/04/30/fi…

Fighting against duplication

At large companies like Amazon, it’s inevitable that multiple independent teams will attempt to solve the same, or closely related, problems. One approach that optimizes for time-to-market is for...

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An angle of @AWSonAir you don't see from home. Join @FarrahC32, @aaronshunter and I in about 30 minutes to talk about maturing apps from idea to scaled production workloads using #AWS Copilot CLI 💪 – at Paradise, NV
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A basic "How @awscloud Copilot CLI deployment to App Runner works" with a ton of oversimplification (and maybe mistakes? ) What other diagrams would you want to see? #reInvent – at Paradise, NV
Diagram of boxes and arrows describing a deployment process on a small whiteboard

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If you want to chat or learn more about ECS and Copilot, I’ll be at #reInvent2022
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We're looking into extending AWS Copilot resources using the #CDK and CloudFormation YAML patches. We'd love to hear your feedback 🙇‍♂️🥰 1. github.com/aws/copilot-cli/i… 2. github.com/aws/copilot-cli/i…

Extending Copilot with the CDK · Issue #4208 · aws/copilot-cli

Hi folks! This issue is a design proposal for overriding Copilot abstracted resources using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The goal is to provide a "break the glass" mechanism to ac...

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Sergey Generalov
@genbit22 Nov 2022
As AWS Copilot is an open source project, we want to get the community feedback about the design proposal for "Extending Copilot with the CDK" github.com/aws/copilot-cli/i…

Extending Copilot with the CDK · Issue #4208 · aws/copilot-cli

Hi folks! This issue is a design proposal for overriding Copilot abstracted resources using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The goal is to provide a "break the glass" mechanism to ac...

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📣 AWS Copilot v1.23 is out! 👇Check out Sergey's tweets for an overview. 👀 Blog post from the team: aws.github.io/copilot-cli/bl… #apprunner #aws #ecs #fargate
Sergey Generalov
@genbit3 Nov 2022
AWS Copilot 1.23 is out. Read more about it in: - What's new post (aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…) - GitHub Release Notes github.com/aws/copilot-cli/r… - Community Blog Post aws.github.io/copilot-cli/bl… Now, more about the features:
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Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness

How do you avoid becoming a Brilliant Jerk? Read this article to learn practical tips on communication, honesty and psychological safety.

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A book about #AWS Copilot! My favorite topic in my favorite format 😍📚
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@leanpub7 Oct 2022
Building a full Web-Stack with Docker and AWS Copilot leanpub.com/building-a-full-… by Richard Chou is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com

Building a full Web-Stack with Docker and AWS Copilot

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@_jasonfx5 Oct 2022
I meet loads of startups looking to quickly get started with ECS & Fargate. The best place to start is Copilot CLI: aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ With this you can build, deploy & operate containers on AWS and build fairly complicated architectures too.
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Join us today on Containers from the 🛋! At 12 PM PST. There will be demos on how #AWS Copilot helps you accelerate your DevOps journey 📦📦🚀
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@maishsk3 Oct 2022
Time for another Containers from the Couch episode. This time diving into #AWS Copilot! Join @efekarakus, @genbit and myself, today at 12:00 Pacific time. Join us live on youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3sG6dU… or on twitch.tv/aws Looking forward!
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🆕 blog post after a long time! "If it ain't broke, fix it?" efekarakus.com/2022/10/02/if…

If it ain’t broke, fix it?

Can you spot what’s strange about the following CloudFormation snippet? AdministrationRole: Type: AWS::IAM::Role Properties: RoleName: !Ref AdminRoleName AssumeRolePolicyDocument: Statement: -...

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📣 AWS Copilot v1.22 is out! 🚀 🔒 Permissions boundary for IAM roles. 🙋 FIFO capabilities for published topics and Worker services. 💨 Faster TLS termination with CloudFront Blog post: aws.github.io/copilot-cli/bl… Release notes: github.com/aws/copilot-cli/r…
Sergey Generalov
@genbit27 Sep 2022
AWS Copilot, a CLI for the containerized apps, now supports IAM permission boundaries, FIFO SNS/SQS, and more! I'm most excited that now Copilot makes it easier to configure TLS during the entire path of your application requests. Learn more at aws.github.io/copilot-cli/bl…
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And the what’s new post! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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You can also learn more about AWS Copilot here aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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📣AWS Copilot v1.21 is out! 🚀 ☁️ Add a #CloudFront distribution in front of #AmazonECS Load Balanced Web Services! 📦 Package and upload local artifacts for addons like #Lambda functions 🔒 ELB access logs and more environment manifest fields Blog: aws.github.io/copilot-cli/bl…

AWS Copilot v1.21

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I am really excited for the upcoming releases to enable additional use cases for your ECS on Fargate web services behind CloudFront: github.com/aws/copilot-cli/i… Release notes for v1.21: github.com/aws/copilot-cli/r…
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Having fun adding this little component to display concurrent stack instance changes when updating a CloudFormation stack set 🌈
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Why Beauty Matters

An invitation to care-minded architecture and shared spaces in Ghana. A provocation for better places.

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Backend with Dart is the hype topic right now and Dart Frog by @VGVentures had a lot of attention from the community. That is why I decided to create a tutorial about deploying a backend written in Dart to #AWS by using AWS Copilot! youtube.com/watch?v=u_owDNJw…
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