Sam Carr - Cloud Architect Notes

Sam Carr - Cloud Architect Notes https://blog.scarr.cloud/ Things I broke so you don't have to. A cloud architect's field notes on AWS, Azure, resilience, and the occasional existential crisis. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:45:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en Sam Carr - Cloud Architect Notes https://blog.scarr.cloud/brand/og-image.png https://blog.scarr.cloud/ All rights reserved 2026, Sam Carr <![CDATA[It worked at 12: what broke at 500 (and it wasn't Lambda)]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/it-worked-at-12 https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/it-worked-at-12 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT aws lambda dynamodb serverless side-projects <![CDATA[Team Meeting Bingo, and why Lambda Web Functions matter]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/lambda-web-functions-team-meeting-bingo https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/lambda-web-functions-team-meeting-bingo Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT aws lambda serverless side-projects <![CDATA[That's cool bro, but can it write Doom ?]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/can-it-write-doom-part-1 https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/can-it-write-doom-part-1 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai claude-code agents side-projects <![CDATA[Guitar Improv: Building the Tool I Kept Almost Finding]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/guitar-improv-serverless-build https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/guitar-improv-serverless-build Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT aws serverless architecture side-projects <![CDATA[The Token Tax: Making AI Memory Actually Efficient]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-token-tax https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-token-tax Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai obsidian claude-code hooks token-optimization <![CDATA[When AI Agents Dream: Memory Consolidation for the Obsidian Vault]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-dream-consolidation https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-dream-consolidation Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai obsidian mcp claude-code hooks dream <![CDATA[Making AI Memory Stick: Hooks, Tiers, and the Problem with Polite Instructions]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-hooks-and-tiers https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-hooks-and-tiers Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai obsidian mcp claude-code hooks <![CDATA[AI Memory Without the Overhead: Using Obsidian as Your Agent's Second Brain]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-with-markdown-and-obsidian https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/ai-memory-with-markdown-and-obsidian Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai obsidian mcp productivity <![CDATA[The Script That Grew Legs: Building a Deterministic AWS Discovery Tool]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/aws-discovery-script-evolution https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/aws-discovery-script-evolution Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT aws ai automation well-architected <![CDATA[Claude Skills: Context is King]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/claude-skills-context-is-king https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/claude-skills-context-is-king Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai claude productivity skills <![CDATA[When AI Access Becomes an Exercise in Irony: Navigating Anthropic's Partner Gating on AWS Bedrock]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/anthropic-bedrock-partner-blog https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/anthropic-bedrock-partner-blog Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT aws bedrock anthropic cross-account iam <![CDATA[Hello World, Literally]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/hello-world-literally https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/hello-world-literally Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT meta ai learning <![CDATA[Cyber Recovery: Hope Is Not a Strategy]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/cyber-recovery-resilient-by-design https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/cyber-recovery-resilient-by-design Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT security disaster-recovery cloud architecture <![CDATA[Cloud Costs: The Problem Isn't Spending, It's Visibility]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/cloud-value-not-just-spending https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/cloud-value-not-just-spending Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT cloud finops aws azure <![CDATA[Public Service Announcement]]> https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/public-service-announcement https://blog.scarr.cloud/posts/public-service-announcement Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT meta disclaimer