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AWS Ecosystem Demystified

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:06:55 +0800

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one of the most transformative inventions for the internet. Most people would not know about it, but you can think that almost every online service, every Fortune 500 company, or every modern convenience would have been on AWS now, or at least at one point in time.

The goal of this guide is hopefully you can decipher the above diagram

AWS started off with just a handful of products. Just a few servers and maybe a place to store your files online. Since then, there are hundreds of products, and for the uninitiated, it’s daunting to understand what AWS is and what the best way to use it is. The goal of this little guide is to demystify the monolith of internet infrastructure that is AWS.

Moonshot Projects Explained

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:07:48 +0800

Over the years, we would hear about projects, so big, so consequential, that they are called “moonshot” projects. Projects that company’s said that they bet the farm, in which if they failed, the company that initiated the project might also go under.

We explore where did the term come from and what are corporate-level “moonshot” programs that companies made and what is the effect to their bottom line and technology in general.

Web3 Explained

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:05:57 +0800

There’s a new movement that is going around on social media and tech websites. It is on everyone’s lips but there’s no clear indication of what it is. It is called web3. The term web3 has been thrown around for some time but there is no clear indication of what it actually is. So, what is web3? How do we access this web3? What does it mean for the future of the internet? We answer the question and explain all that to you.