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InAWS in Plain EnglishbyDenis Burakov·Jul 6Event-Driven Data Pipelines on AWSBuild automated data ingestion pipelines with Lambda, dlt, and IcebergA response icon1A response icon1
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyDenis Burakov·Jun 17Deploying Airflow on EC2: A Production GuideHow to run Airflow on EC2, behind an ALB, deployed with CloudFormation
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyDenis Burakov·Apr 17How I Fine-Tuned OpenAI gpt-oss-20b to Talk to Claude CodeFine-tune on Apple Silicon, quantize to 10 GB, serve locally through vLLM-mlx
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyDenis Burakov·Apr 12Zero-Shot Classification with Amazon Bedrock Batch InferenceClassify thousands of records without infrastructure at half the cost
Denis Burakov·Apr 11Why Python Typing Looks Fragmented (And the Mental Model That Makes It Click)Why Python’s typing feels strange, how it fits together, and how to reason about it without memorizing syntax
Denis Burakov·Apr 8From Counting Words to Training GPT: the MLE ThreadHow a 250-year-old idea powers everything from extractive summarizers to large language models
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