Aws

Google Chrome 155+ officially brought back native JPEG XL (.jxl) decoding via Rust (jxl-rs). We benchmarked 12 distinct JPEG categories across Lossless DCT Transcoding, Lossy Q80, and WebP — uncovering 32.9% zero-loss S3 storage savings and a critical 3x bloat pitfall in Python pillow-jxl.

AWS just launched S3 Files (GA April 7, 2026) — mount any S3 general purpose bucket as an NFS file system on EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, or Fargate. Built on EFS infrastructure with ~1ms latency. No code changes needed.

A complete breakdown of production-ready container deployment on AWS ECS — from ALB to ECS Cluster to Auto Scaling to CI/CD with ECR. Every layer explained.

After 20 years of globally unique bucket names, AWS introduced Account Regional Namespace for S3 on March 12, 2026. Bucket names now only need to be unique within your AWS account and region. No more naming hacks.

Two Availability Zones impaired in the UAE region after drone strikes hit AWS data centers. S3 could not survive losing two AZs at once. Here is what happened and what every SRE should take away from it.

You just want Nodes to talk to the Cluster. AWS gives you four Security Groups. Here is what each one actually does — from a practical SRE perspective.

Welcome to EKS and Kubernetes world. See you after my holiday.

Host a static website on an S3 bucket with Route53, CloudFront and AWS Certificate Manager with high level design.