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AI has two price tags in IT Work — One in Dollars, One in Skill

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: August 1, 2026 | Modified: August 1, 2026

Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. The token bill is the meter you can see — the one eroding your debugging skill doesn’t send an invoice. Both matter.

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AI Agents, Explained: A Guide for Beginners

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 31, 2026 | Modified: July 31, 2026

“AI agent” gets used loosely — this guide fixes that. A plain-English explainer for beginners and IT pros: what agents are, how the perceive-reason-act loop works, key terms like tools, skills, and MCP, when NOT to use one, plus practical cost and security guardrails.

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Understanding the CLAUDE.md File: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting More Out of Claude

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 31, 2026 | Modified: July 31, 2026

Tired of re-explaining your project to Claude every session? A CLAUDE.md file gives Claude persistent context that loads automatically. This beginner’s guide covers what it is, where the files live, the load order, a sample file, and how to keep it lean.

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Self-Managed S3 Buckets for Lambda Code: You Finally Own the Artifact

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 31, 2026 | Modified: July 31, 2026

Picture a platform team running a few hundred Lambda functions across a handful of accounts. Every function has several published versions kept around for safe rollbacks. One morning a deploy fails with a quota error, and the culprit isn’t the new function at all. It’s the 75 GB account-level limit on function and layer code […]

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Lambda MicroVMs: When Functions Aren’t Enough and EC2 Is Too Much

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 30, 2026 | Modified: July 30, 2026

Picture this: you’re building a browser-based notebook where data analysts paste in Python, load a 3 GB dataframe, generate a few charts, then wander off to a meeting. Ninety minutes later they come back and expect their kernel, their variables, and their half-finished plot to still be sitting there. Now try to build that on […]

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Know about Amazon GuardDuty Investigation: AI-powered security analysis

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: July 29, 2026 | Modified: July 29, 2026

Security teams routinely burn hours triaging a single GuardDuty finding. The workflow is familiar: pull the finding, pivot into CloudTrail, cross-reference VPC flow logs, chase the principal across accounts, map the behavior to a known technique, and finally decide whether the alert is a real incident or noise. Multiply that across an organization producing dozens […]

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Migrating from Amazon Linux 2 to Bottlerocket AMI in EKS Nodes

By Bhagyesh Raut | Published: August 14, 2025 | Modified: August 14, 2025

In this post, I share my journey transitioning from Amazon Linux 2 to Bottlerocket as the EKS node OS, aiming for enhanced security with a hardened OS image.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025: My experience

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: August 10, 2025 | Modified: August 12, 2025

From scaling Kubernetes, observability, powering huge AI projects to real stories from PepsiCo, Flipkart, and Intuit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 in Hyderabad was a deep dive into where cloud-native ecosystem is headed. Here’s my personal experience about the event.

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Reflections on AWS Summit Mumbai 2025

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: June 22, 2025 | Modified: June 22, 2025

Just wrapped up an exciting day at AWS Summit Mumbai 2025! And here are my reflections on the event!

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Efficient & Ergonomic: A Look Inside My Home Office Setup

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: May 27, 2025 | Modified: May 27, 2025

Over the past year, I’ve worked on building a home office that balances productivity, comfort, and simplicity. Instead of overloading the space with gear, I’ve focused on what actually improves my daily workflow. Here’s a quick look at the core gadgets that make up my current setup.

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