Matt Bacchi

Lots of folks use the Claude IDE, or the Claude Code VSCode extension.

Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology created by Amazon Web Services (AWS) which underpins their AWS Lambda Functions as a Service (FaaS) serverless product.

A short post discussing the installation of Nvidia Datacenter GPU Manager on Amazon Linux 2023.

Terraform is a flexible, cloud agnostic infrastructure as code (IaC) tool.

As we bring 2024 to a close, and after an invigorating week at AWS re:Invent, many will be writing their year in review summaries.

EC2 Image Builder Lifecycle Policies is a fairly new AWS feature that enables automatic cleanup of old EC2 Image Builder pipeline artifacts.

There’s been a recent uptick in the number of S3 buckets that have become “hijacked” or “taken over”.

Imagine you have a security group that needs to allow all IP addresses of AWS EC2 instances.

A couple years ago I shared a post that detailed various tech industry job search resources.

Recently the Lambda Go runtime has changed from using the Go 1.x managed runtime to using the provided runtimes which have been historically used for custom runtimes (i.e.

You’ve probably heard of AWS Lambda and serverless by now.

Networking can sometimes be quite complicated.

Over the last few years I’ve provided information on how to approach a job search to friends and coworkers.

This will be the first in a series of posts describing Tweets I’ve sent with the hashtag #awswishlist.

Recently I moved my personal blog from GitHub Pages to AWS Amplify.

Discourse is used for a number of purposes, but their forum software is quite popular.

I’ve been attempting to learn more about Lambda@Edge and how to use functions at the AWS edge locations, so I wrote up this demo.

Security minded users often run Docker to create an additional sandbox around an untrusted application running on their system.

Inlets is a fairly new project that allows you to setup reverse proxy, websocket tunnels, or other endpoints to the public internet, it is similar to ngrok.

We have all become accustomed to services on the internet being reliable and available approximately 100% of the time.

There are many examples available for how to return an error from an AWS Lambda function through API Gateway to a client in Node.js, but relatively few for how to do so using the Python runtime.

Git doesn’t have the concept of a per user global hook.

Working on AWS CodeCommit today, I setup SSH access to the repository.

While writing a Python library that performs scanning of Git repositories similar to AWS Labs' git-secrets, I was surprised by some 3rd party scanning services randomly scanning my repository for AWS credentials.

While using AWS Lambda SAM Local to test Lambda functions locally, I encountered an error writing to the current directory where the function was running in the container (/var/task/).

Even if you’re not involved in the Python community, you might have heard about this security incident a while back.

Here’s another ‘for posterity’ type post.

I’ve been trying to learn more about AWS Lambda, at the same time learning some web development.

I spent a little time with Zappa today which is an AWS Lambda (aka “serverless”) framework for Python.

Another common error is that the docker daemon cannot connect to the outside world to download anything during build time.

I always forget this when trying to run docker as a non-root user, so documenting it for posterity.

I was interested in a job description a company posted via Twitter, but I couldn’t view the text and didn’t understand why.

Docker can be used to quickly create and serve many services, one such example is serving RPMs via Yum in an ad hoc manner.

After upgrading to Fedora 25 yesterday, Vagrant 1.8.5 in the updates repo was unusable with VirtualBox for 2 reasons: The newest centos/7 box didn’t use vbox guest additions for shared folders, forcing the use of NFS Vagrant issue 8138 which is not fixed…