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Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo

Monica is a technology leader, cloud expert, and AWS DevTools Hero with a strong technical foundation built over two decades in IT. Now Head of Hyperscaler Operations, she brings experience from a career path that started as a system administrator and progressed through DevOps engineering and cloud architecture.

Let's make Cloud #68: Infrastructure as Code Needs a Rethink, Why the AWS CDK won the war (inside my head), It’s Time to Retire Terraform

May 30, 2024

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #68: Infrastructure as Code Needs a Rethink, Why the AWS CDK won the war (inside my head), It’s Time to Retire Terraform

Infrastructure as Code Needs a Rethink, Why the AWS CDK won the war (inside my head), It’s Time to Retire Terraform

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #67: What you should know before refactoring CDK applications, A first look at the brand new Amazon Bedrock Studio, A Cloud Scripting Engine for DevOps Workflows

May 16, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #67: What you should know before refactoring CDK applications, A first look at the brand new Amazon Bedrock Studio, A Cloud Scripting Engine for DevOps Workflows

What you should know before refactoring CDK applications, A first look at the brand new Amazon Bedrock Studio, A Cloud Scripting Engine for DevOps Workflows

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #66: Building a Serverless Newsletter, Build an AI image catalogue, Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024

Apr 18, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #66: Building a Serverless Newsletter, Build an AI image catalogue, Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024

Building a Serverless Newsletter, Build an AI image catalogue, Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #65: Transforming Diagrams into IaC Code with Claude 3 and Amazon Bedrock, Serverless RAG on AWS, AWS CDK for Platform Engineers

Apr 4, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #65: Transforming Diagrams into IaC Code with Claude 3 and Amazon Bedrock, Serverless RAG on AWS, AWS CDK for Platform Engineers

Transforming Diagrams into IaC Code with Claude 3 and Amazon Bedrock, Serverless RAG on AWS, AWS CDK for Platform Engineers

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #64: A Database Alternative to Kubernetes, Enhance code review and approval efficiency with generative AI, IaC Abstractions for AWS UIs with Buttonize

Mar 21, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #64: A Database Alternative to Kubernetes, Enhance code review and approval efficiency with generative AI, IaC Abstractions for AWS UIs with Buttonize

A Database Alternative to Kubernetes, Enhance code review and approval efficiency with generative AI, IaC Abstractions for AWS UIs with Buttonize

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #63: Speed up AWS CloudFormation deployments, Automatic Click-Tracking and Content Spotlights, Auto-Generate OpenAPI Docs & CI/CD Protections

Mar 14, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #63: Speed up AWS CloudFormation deployments, Automatic Click-Tracking and Content Spotlights, Auto-Generate OpenAPI Docs & CI/CD Protections

Speed up AWS CloudFormation deployments, Automatic Click-Tracking and Content Spotlights, Auto-Generate OpenAPI Docs & CI/CD Protections

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #62: A Benchmark Study of Serverless Solutions for Message Delivery to Containers, Platform Engineering with AWS Service Catalog, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Framework for Terraform

Mar 7, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #62: A Benchmark Study of Serverless Solutions for Message Delivery to Containers, Platform Engineering with AWS Service Catalog, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Framework for Terraform

A Benchmark Study of Serverless Solutions for Message Delivery to Containers, Platform Engineering with AWS Service Catalog, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Framework for Terraform

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #61: Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework for AWS Organization, What it was like working for GitLab, Streamlining eBPF performance optimization with bpftop

Feb 29, 2024

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #61: Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework for AWS Organization, What it was like working for GitLab, Streamlining eBPF performance optimization with bpftop

Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework for AWS Organization, What it was like working for GitLab, Streamlining eBPF performance optimization with bpftop

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let’s make Cloud #60: Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret, How BMW Group optimizes software builds, A personal information dashboard for your terminal

Feb 15, 2024

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4 min read

Let’s make Cloud #60: Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret, How BMW Group optimizes software builds, A personal information dashboard for your terminal

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret, How BMW Group optimizes software builds, A personal information dashboard for your terminal

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #59: Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation, Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta, Hosting a Headless Hashnode UI on AWS Amplify

Feb 8, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #59: Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation, Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta, Hosting a Headless Hashnode UI on AWS Amplify

Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation, Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta, Hosting a Headless Hashnode UI on AWS Amplify

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #58: AWS Application Composer, Moving away from CDK, A collection of modern Unix commands alternatives

Feb 1, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #58: AWS Application Composer, Moving away from CDK, A collection of modern Unix commands alternatives

AWS Application Composer, Moving away from CDK, A collection of modern Unix commands alternatives

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #57: Serverless Fitness Functions, Function as a Service in Kubernetes with Argo Events, Amazon CodeCatalyst Quality Reports

Jan 25, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #57: Serverless Fitness Functions, Function as a Service in Kubernetes with Argo Events, Amazon CodeCatalyst Quality Reports

Serverless Fitness Functions, Function as a Service in Kubernetes with Argo Events, Amazon CodeCatalyst Quality Reports

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #56: Orchestrating Resilience Building Modern Asynchronous Systems, Migrating a CDN to AWS CloudFront, A framework for writing serverless applications in Python

Jan 18, 2024

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #56: Orchestrating Resilience Building Modern Asynchronous Systems, Migrating a CDN to AWS CloudFront, A framework for writing serverless applications in Python

Orchestrating Resilience Building Modern Asynchronous Systems, Migrating a CDN to AWS CloudFront, A framework for writing serverless applications in Python

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #55: Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale, Optimizing costs with GitHub Actions and AWS Fargate Spot, AI powered video summarizer

Jan 11, 2024

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #55: Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale, Optimizing costs with GitHub Actions and AWS Fargate Spot, AI powered video summarizer

Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale, Optimizing costs with GitHub Actions and AWS Fargate Spot, AI powered video summarizer

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #54: The case for Containers on Lambda, When to use Cassandra and when not to, Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

Jan 4, 2024

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #54: The case for Containers on Lambda, When to use Cassandra and when not to, Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

The case for Containers on Lambda, When to use Cassandra and when not to, Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #53: Serverless social login with AWS Cognito, AWS EKS Pod Identities as a replacement for IRSA, Is software getting worse?

Dec 28, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #53: Serverless social login with AWS Cognito, AWS EKS Pod Identities as a replacement for IRSA, Is software getting worse?

Serverless social login with AWS Cognito, AWS EKS Pod Identities as a replacement for IRSA, Is software getting worse?

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #52: Amazon EKS access management simplified, Projen project generator, Simple Sabotage for Software

Dec 21, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #52: Amazon EKS access management simplified, Projen project generator, Simple Sabotage for Software

Amazon EKS access management simplified, Projen project generator, Simple Sabotage for Software

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #51: EKS Blueprints for CDK, Cloud-Native Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), Ephemeral Kubernetes Resources with Mayfly

Dec 14, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #51: EKS Blueprints for CDK, Cloud-Native Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), Ephemeral Kubernetes Resources with Mayfly

EKS Blueprints for CDK, Cloud-Native Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), Ephemeral Kubernetes Resources with Mayfly

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #50: A Cloud Architect's Top 10 Picks from AWS re:Invent 2023, A directory for open-source CDK libraries, Edge Computing Experience with Kubernetes

Dec 7, 2023

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3 min read

Let's make Cloud #50: A Cloud Architect's Top 10 Picks from AWS re:Invent 2023, A directory for open-source CDK libraries, Edge Computing Experience with Kubernetes

A Cloud Architect's Top 10 Picks from AWS re:Invent 2023, A directory for open-source CDK libraries, Edge Computing Experience with Kubernetes

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #49: CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform Workflow Using Amazon CodeCatalyst, 12 Microservices Patterns for System Design Interview, Generating Mermaid Syntax Diagrams with AI 🧜🏼‍♀️

Nov 23, 2023

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5 min read

Let's make Cloud #49: CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform Workflow Using Amazon CodeCatalyst, 12 Microservices Patterns for System Design Interview, Generating Mermaid Syntax Diagrams with AI 🧜🏼‍♀️

CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform Workflow Using Amazon CodeCatalyst, 12 Microservices Patterns for System Design Interview, Generating Mermaid Syntax Diagrams with AI 🧜🏼‍♀️

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #48: The Backstory of Backstage, An Open-source AWS Control Tower, Write your tech talk slides rapidly with Marp

Nov 16, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #48: The Backstory of Backstage, An Open-source AWS Control Tower, Write your tech talk slides rapidly with Marp

The Backstory of Backstage, An Open-source AWS Control Tower, Write your tech talk slides rapidly with Marp

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #47: Where Argo CD Falls Short, Automate tagging of vulnerable docker images in ECR, CDK Project Bootstrapping with AWS CDK Builder

Nov 9, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #47: Where Argo CD Falls Short, Automate tagging of vulnerable docker images in ECR, CDK Project Bootstrapping with AWS CDK Builder

Where Argo CD Falls Short, Automate tagging of vulnerable docker images in ECR, CDK Project Bootstrapping with AWS CDK Builder

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #46: Write, Schedule, and Post Tweets with Bedrock, Build CloudWatch Dashboards for Serverless Services, DynamoDB Incremental Export with Step Functions

Nov 2, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #46: Write, Schedule, and Post Tweets with Bedrock, Build CloudWatch Dashboards for Serverless Services, DynamoDB Incremental Export with Step Functions

Write, Schedule, and Post Tweets with Bedrock, Build CloudWatch Dashboards for Serverless Services, DynamoDB Incremental Export with Step Functions

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #45: Github Actions with Kubernetes and Karpenter, Automated diagram generation with Holori, Advanced Credential Rotation for IAM Users

Oct 26, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #45: Github Actions with Kubernetes and Karpenter, Automated diagram generation with Holori, Advanced Credential Rotation for IAM Users

Github Actions with Kubernetes and Karpenter, Automated diagram generation with Holori, Advanced Credential Rotation for IAM Users

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
Let's make Cloud #44: Migrating AWS Infrastructure From Terraform to AWS CDK, A GitOps Terraform Controller, Deploy Generative AI Models on Amazon EKS

Oct 19, 2023

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4 min read

Let's make Cloud #44: Migrating AWS Infrastructure From Terraform to AWS CDK, A GitOps Terraform Controller, Deploy Generative AI Models on Amazon EKS

Migrating AWS Infrastructure From Terraform to AWS CDK, A GitOps Terraform Controller, Deploy Generative AI Models on Amazon EKS

Monica Colangelo
Monica Colangelo
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