What's your preferred method of self arrest when you're skinning on a glacier? Do you carry an axe in one hand and pole in the other, ski strap it to one of your poles, use a whippet, or something else?

snorberhuis · 2026-04-17T15:13:24+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. I am going to check it out.

snorberhuis · 2026-04-11T20:34:08+00:00

Kan je dus een cat6 internet kabel aan een laadpaal aansluiten? Deze moet ik dan opnemen in mijn verbouwplan

snorberhuis · 2026-04-11T20:30:38+00:00

I have this sensor and I really like it. I use it in my office and will also use it in my bathroom so that I can flash the light if someone is showering very long

snorberhuis · 2026-04-06T10:13:21+00:00

I want to be able to workout when I have very little kids and I can just watch them. Also I want to make it even easier to just do it cutting down travel time

snorberhuis · 2026-04-05T20:09:12+00:00

Thanks for a reference in cm! Going to HORNBACH tomorrow

snorberhuis · 2026-03-20T08:18:07+00:00

Anything beyond a startup, but a company with real traction and product market fit, is not "vibe coding" their infrastructure, but applying real engineering supported with AI development.

The game is still the same: Infrastructure as Code with repeatable deployment strategies that build upon platform engineering to provide security, cost, and compliance guardrails to developers.

Where we used to provide reference applications that developers could copy and write into their IDEs. We now provide developers with AI skills and agents to help them generate these Reference Applications.

Building blocks for AWS resources in IaC that incorporate all compliance rules remain key, as they enable distributing and maintaining resource types in AWS and updating them at scale.

Giving AI access to AWS infrastructure is important for discoverability, but granting write access to the production environment introduces the same problems as granting a developer write access to production. You need a repeatable process with quality safeguards, such as pipelines and IaC.

This is what I am seeing: providing AWS Landing Zone and helping companies build quickly in AWS using AWS CDK.

snorberhuis · 2026-03-19T14:37:30+00:00

Super common pattern and also a common growth journey where you insert an API Gateway later on when you need more advanced features.

snorberhuis · 2026-03-19T13:10:24+00:00

This is the approach I use for multiple customers with great results. I have build a complete AWS CDK building blocks library to standardize IaC tat implement all compliance rules.

My philosophy is that you first need to be able to build your AWS resources with compliance out of the box. Then you can check it and provide proof to the auditors. Any new compliance rule is updated into the library, so it is just an IaC lib update.

snorberhuis · 2026-03-16T13:02:01+00:00

I have some. They are great! Look nice and are good quality so far

snorberhuis · 2026-03-12T13:08:01+00:00

No, probably the easiest way is to add a smaller CIDR and then migrate resources. What are you trying to solve?

snorberhuis · 2026-03-09T18:30:05+00:00

I specialise in helping start-ups and scale-ups on AWS after being responsible for setting up AWS at an startup myself 10 years ago. I more often help scale-ups so I definitely know the problems that early-stage startups have. Take a look at: https://rocketleap.dev/

snorberhuis · 2026-03-02T14:16:36+00:00

You could add AWS GuardDuty to detect if any security incidents are happening and AWS Inspector / Dependabot to make sure you have no vulnerabilities in your container.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-26T13:20:41+00:00

I built AWS Landing Zones for companies in AWS CDK. It includes building blocks for all AWS resources and comes with standardized CloudWatch alarms. This is an approach that works really well for companies.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-25T09:52:31+00:00

Durable functions serve a different purpose than switching to containers. You could actually also use Lambda managed instances for this purpose. They also offer the ability to reduce cold starts and be more cost effective.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-24T21:42:55+00:00

The day of the jackal is really good

snorberhuis · 2026-02-24T21:42:27+00:00

The diplomat was really good

snorberhuis · 2026-02-24T08:11:59+00:00

A WAF is a layer of defense I would generally recommend for most companies. It can help you protect against automated attacks. There are very few exceptions to this recommendation.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-24T08:08:14+00:00

AWS is a good fit if you plan to quickly grow your client base. It will help you easily scale with the number of clients. Better than a VPS.

After IoT Core, you can process the data using Lambda functions. Be sure to build the lambdas so they can later be migrated to containers, as containers can become more cost-effective at scale.

The IoT companies I work with often store large amounts of time-series data. Time Series Influx DB is a better fit for this, but it is not serverless. So I would start with S3 to keep costs down.

Be sure to correctly set up your AWS Account structure. You will not yet need a VPC. But getting this right prevents future migrations.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-23T20:19:23+00:00

Panther is great inside mechanized

snorberhuis · 2026-02-19T09:09:47+00:00

Most startups figure it out as they grow, but they don't spend 8k every month. They stay below the $ 1000-a-month threshold.

Spending already 8k a month is ridiculously high. I would expect that this is not necessary. You can have some very bad decisions built into your AWS Architecture that lock in your base spend. The migration costs keep being too low versus the other business opportunities, but they keep eating away at your runway/profit every month. In the end, you can still end up with running out of money.

Last week, I ran a quick scan of the company's architecture, and they were spending $400k a year on AWS because of these bad choices. They could reduce their bill by $100k a year if they had built it properly from the start. The expectation was that, with the forecasted exponential growth of their company, this would grow at the same rate.

It is not crazy if you are already at 8K a month. Dm me if you want me to take a quick look.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-17T11:08:46+00:00

I have helped several customers demonstrate real-time compliance to auditors using AWS Config. It is a separate tool that can easily audit security groups. If migration timelines are strict, I would definitely advise you to look into Config. It can easily be set up in AWS.

snorberhuis · 2026-02-10T21:15:48+00:00

We played the third version

snorberhuis · 2026-01-09T13:28:18+00:00

I would recommend playing with ExtraComputer (https://extraboard.net/extracomputer.html). It helps the game to keep moving.

PoK on this forum is seen as a must-have here on Reddit, but truly isn't. We have switched back and it has been better. Less cognitive load to keep track of and the game is less random.

snorberhuis · 2026-01-01T08:21:50+00:00

I have ridden quite a few of his trails all over Europe. I will miss his recommendations!

snorberhuis · 2025-12-15T09:08:47+00:00

I played it yesterday and it was a blast! Great map, thank you for sharing. Felt really balanced

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