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Stephen J. Barr

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AI-First AWS cost optimization with @cloudfix_saves! Host of AWS Made Easy livestream. Husband, father, builder, 3d printing enthusiast!

Seattle, WA, USA
Joined March 2007
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8 months
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Let us know how YOU are using auto scaling groups, and what your challenges are!
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My new blog post describes the selection criterion and gives more details. This underlying finder/fixer logic uses AWS Compute Optimizer and our own rules to make sure only eligible ASGs are included in this list.
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Learn about scaling limits for ASGs here:
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Visit our blog post on optimizing your DynamoDB Access Class:
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16 days
Chatting with my colleague about translating my Python requests code into a Zapier webhook.
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16 days
"Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing!" - Gene Kranz in Apollo 13 movie, and also what I tell my LLM agents all of the time.
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17 days
When the API is undocumented, you can always right-click and Inspect
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17 days
@awscloud Check out the AWS announcement:
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21 days
I had to move a pile of firewood very quickly about 16 feet. I have 4 kids. It was the perfect opportunity to do a "bucket brigade". It was surprisingly effective.
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Stephen J. Barr
22 days
Does it get more #seattle than using AI to program a social media toolkit while on a ferry? I think this is peak PNW nerdiness, and I’ll own it.
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22 days
Finishing up an internal tool, using AI-powered coding. I was able to say "Make this SQL table which needs to do {thing}, and then make a CRUD interface for it." and it's just...done. It took longer to write this tweet.
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The action of changing the look and feel of a project would have taken AT LEAST a morning, and would have involved CSS, deciding on hex codes, and lots of other things that I am bad at.
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