Vol. XXXII · Tampa, FL · May 2026
Fabio Santos.
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Curating today's signal…

A live feed of the top 10 AI stories across general, engineering, and enterprise. Curated by an AI agent grounded on reliable sources only (labs, tier-1 press, research). Refreshed at 7am · 1pm · 7pm ET. No influencer noise.

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Notes · microblog

Thinking out loud.

May 8

Today's reminder: spot price is not a strategy. Spot diversification is.

May 3

If your post-mortem template doesn't have a 'systemic' section, it's a blame template.

Apr 27

Bedrock + Claude for tool-use, OpenAI for streaming-heavy chat, Anthropic API direct for evals. Right tool for the job.

Apr 19

Karpenter + spot is the single biggest lever for EKS FinOps. Nothing else is close.

Apr 12

32 years in IT and I'm still rebuilding my dotfiles every Sunday morning. Some things never change.

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Lately I've been shipping.

last 12 months
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Talks
On stage.
2025 · panel
Building agentic AI platforms on AWS
AWS re:Invent Community
2024 · talk
Crypto-as-a-Service: building Itaú's serverless platform
AWS Summit São Paulo
2023 · keynote
Multi-region crypto custody — the 6-country playbook
LATAM Fintech Summit
2022 · talk
PCI DSS on AWS without slowing your team
DevOps Days Miami
Teaching
Courses I can minister.
AWS Architecture for Fintechs
16h · 4 sessions
Live online or in-house workshop · Senior engineers / staff+
  • Multi-region topology, RPO/RTO trade-offs
  • Serverless-first vs containers — when each wins
  • DynamoDB single-table design at TPS scale
Open enrollment · Q3 2026 Request →
Production RAG: from prototype to scale
12h · 3 sessions
Live online · corporate cohort · AI engineers / platform teams
  • Ingest pipelines on AWS (S3 + Lambda + OpenSearch)
  • Chunking & retrieval strategies that survive real data
  • Hybrid search, reranking, evals
Open enrollment · Q4 2026 Request →
SRE for Crypto & Payments
8h · 2 sessions
Half-day intensive · Eng leads / SREs
  • SLOs and error budgets for regulated workloads
  • Multi-region active-active patterns
  • Incident response in compliance-heavy environments
By request Request →
Reading
On the nightstand.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Re-reading
Site Reliability Engineering
Google SRE Team
Reference
The Manager's Path
Camille Fournier
Recommending
Building LLM apps for Production
Chip Huyen
Reading
Tools daily
Editor:Neovim · VS Code · Cursor
Terminal:Ghostty · zsh + starship · tmux
Notes:Obsidian · Apple Notes
Hardware:MacBook Pro M3 Max · Studio Display · Logitech MX Master 3
AI daily:Claude (chat + code) · Cursor · Aider
Open source.
3 projects · MIT
Maintainer terraform-aws-eks-karpenter

Opinionated EKS + Karpenter module battle-tested at 6-country scale.

Author ragkit-cdk

CDK construct library for production RAG on AWS (OpenSearch + Bedrock + Lambda).

Author post-mortem-template

Blameless post-mortem template I've used across 4 companies.

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