Hacker News: cldcntrl

New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

cldcntrl — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:10:45 +0000

I've been working on production-grade AWS deployments for over 10 years, so it's a bit hard to frame my experience/skill set. That being said, if you need help with almost anything AWS - architecture, infrastructure, performance, scale - feel free to reach out. Although versed in Well-Architected/multi-region/multi-account, I strive to supply the simplest solution for your particular scenario.

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Technologies: IAM, VPC, Cloudwatch, EC2/ASG/ELB, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, Cognito, Athena, S3, Cloudfront, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, IoT Core, Sagemaker, ElastiCache, MediaConvert

Email: hn@cldcntrl.com

New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

cldcntrl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:57:20 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

cldcntrl — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:51:09 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

cldcntrl — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:28:39 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

cldcntrl — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:26:37 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

cldcntrl — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:10:19 +0000

I only work on a contracted C2C basis.

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

cldcntrl — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:23:24 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"

cldcntrl — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:21:11 +0000

SEEKING WORK | AWS Expertise | Remote (USA Based)

Keywords: IAM, VPC, Cloudwatch, EC2/ASG/ELB, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, Cognito, Athena, S3, Cloudfront, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, IoT Core, Sagemaker, ElastiCache, MediaConvert

$150 USD/hour, minimum 50 hours (rates are standard and listed on my website)

hn@cldcntrl.com

New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)"

cldcntrl — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:16:38 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2025)"

cldcntrl — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:16:21 +0000

SEEKING WORK | AWS Expertise | Remote (USA Based)

$150 USD/hour, minimum 50 hours (rates are standard and listed on my website)

hn@cldcntrl.com

New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)"

cldcntrl — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:37:36 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)"

cldcntrl — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:23:56 +0000

SEEKING WORK | AWS Expertise | Remote (USA Based)

$150 USD/hour, minimum 50 hours (rates are standard and listed on my website)

hn@cldcntrl.com

New comment by cldcntrl in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

cldcntrl — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:45:46 +0000

That's right, same for me as of only a few months ago.

New comment by cldcntrl in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

cldcntrl — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:17:55 +0000

The whole auto-balancing thing isn't instant. If you have a burst of writes with the same key prefix, you'll get throttled.

New comment by cldcntrl in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

cldcntrl — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:06:18 +0000

> You don’t have to randomize the first part of your object keys to ensure they get spread around and avoid hotspots.

Not strictly true.

New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)"

cldcntrl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:43:10 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)"

cldcntrl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:42:55 +0000

SEEKING WORK | AWS Expertise | Remote (USA Based)

$150 USD/hour, minimum 50 hours (rates are standard and listed on my website)

hn@cldcntrl.com

New comment by cldcntrl in "AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]"

cldcntrl — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:11:52 +0000

> If I'm reading this correctly, then AWS Support dropped the ball here but this isn't a bug in lambda. This is the documented behavior of the lambda runtime.

AWS Support is generally ineffective unless you're stuck on something very simple at a higher level of the platform (e.g. misunderstanding an SDK API).

Even with their higher tier support - where you can summon a subject matter expert via Chime almost instantly - they're often clueless, and will confidently pass you misleading or incorrect information just to get you off the line. I've successfully used them as a very expensive rubber ducky, but that's about it.

New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

cldcntrl — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:30:02 +0000

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New comment by cldcntrl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)"

cldcntrl — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:29:46 +0000

SEEKING WORK | AWS Expertise | Remote (USA Based)

$150 USD/hour, minimum 50 hours (rates are standard and listed on my website)

hn@cldcntrl.com