Amir's Blog

Introducing AI snacks: ways to add AI features in small doses without overwhelming the user with more chatbots.

An introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and how embeddings, chunking, and vector search work together in the context of LLM search.

Let’s learn about code sandboxes, implementation options, and how to build a code sandbox server for use with LLMs and AI agents.

How to use Service Control Policies (SCPs) to add guardrails to limit IAM users and roles in a multi-account AWS Organization.

How to securely manage human users and groups across multiple AWS accounts using IAM Identity Center and Service Control Policies (SCPs).

A walkthrough of how to build a secure AWS environment with proper account segregation, centralized auditing, and more.

A simple example of adding a Go library to a Rust program, and then using the bindgen FFI to call Go functions from Rust.

I discuss the technical architecture of KVdb.io, a recent side project-turned-product and some pitfalls of overengineering early stage products.

CloudPlay: A Music Player for YouTube, etc.

Building a node.js app using Express & Socket.IO Here are some notes for my node.js workshop that you can use to follow along during and after the talk.

Introducing Dialoggs This week my friend Drew Wilson and I launched Dialoggs into private beta.

Kauai, Hawaii Relax.

RESTalytics — our Node Knockout entry This past weekend I took part in Node Knockout, a 48-hour coding competition where teams have to build an app in node.js from scratch.

Compass + Sassy CSS = giddiness The designer in me has been wanting to break out for some time, and since going back to freelancing, I’ve found some extra time and ran out of excuses to brush up on CSS.

Speak It, Baby!

Continuous availability deployment of node.js apps I’ve been thinking about the problem of highly available node.js applications and how to keep things running smoothly when deploying new code.

How to share Backbone.js models with node.js I’ve been building a node.js app for a project for a while now, and I just redesigned the architecture of the client (a single-page HTML5 app) to use Backbone.js.

On my own It’s been two months since I left my software engineering job at IBM to explore the world of consulting on my own.