Philipp Garbe

GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild - The Ultimate Guide for Container Nerds Switching between GitHub-managed runners and AWS CodeBuild sounds easy — and it mostly is — but there are important caveats to consider.

just published a blog post:
"GitHub Actions + AWS CodeBuild – the ultimate guide for container nerds"

includes:
– how runs-on works behind the scenes
– ways to accidentally spin up a 72xlarge instance 😬
– the joys of debugging $HOME in a container

garbe.io/blog/2025/07... #listentotheheroes

Is there no way on GitHub to disable / remove the default hosted runners? I want to run only on self-hosted ones... #github @github.com

The Call for Papers for the AWS Community Day DACH in Munich has opened!

Have a story, insight, or innovation to share? Whether it's a technical deep dive, lessons learned from real-world challenges, or innovative use cases... Don't be shy!

www.aws-community-day.de/submit-session

#AWSCommunity

Förderverein AWS Community DACH on LinkedIn: Sponsors, Speakers and Attendees about the AWS Community Day DACH 📣 Calling Future Sponsors for AWS Community Day DACH 2025! 🚀 After the incredible success of our previous events, we're excited to open sponsorship…

The AWS Community Day DACH 2025 is approaching. If you want to sponsor feel free to ping me. Last year was a blast and we will repeat that :)
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Btw, the call for papers / speakers is starting soon...

@aws-community.de #AWS #AWSCommunity #AWSCommunityDayDACH

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AWS ECR pull-through cache repos should support Dockers "library" images #awswishlist

Instead of `docker pull ...ecr.../mirror/library/alpine` it should work with `docker pull ...ecr.../mirror/alpine`

That makes prefixing much easier and less confusing...

Valentines card "Hey babe who's gonna be your valentine? IAM"

Hopefully this clarifies how to pronounce IAM 😜 // cc @quinnypig.com @brookejamieson.bsky.social

Are humans the limiting factor in AI-assisted software development? For software developers foundational models and LLMs have become helpful tools. But they are far from making us 10x more productive. In this essay we will explore why AI seems to have reached a pro…

Are humans the limiting factor in AI-assisted software development? I wrote why we might be, and what we need to do to break through the current productivity ceiling.

AWS Community Lounge at AWS Summit Hamburg 2025: Call for Speakers The AWS Community Lounge is part of the AWS Summit Hamburg. It's planned, organized, and delivered by the AWS user group community in the DACH region ...

This year, the AWS Summit Germany will take place in Hamburg and the Community Lounge will also be back! We are already looking for speakers. Hurry up it's only open until March 16

Call for Paper: sessionize.com/aws-communit...
Check also our Leveling Guide: www.aws-community-day.de/faq-leveling...

GitHub - leits/MeetingBar: 🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar 🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar - GitHub - leits/MeetingBar: 🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar

I use github.com/leits/Meetin... with the configuration "Show a fullscreen notification when event starts"

Infrastructure Platform Teams An infrastructure management team is not as effective as an infrastructure platform.

Infrastructure management teams? I'm old enough to know when it was called "Ops" teams infrastructure-as-code.com/post/infrast...

❗ CDK CLI versions and CDK library versions will soon diverge · Issue #32775 · aws/aws-cdk Hello everyone, This issue is an announcement that in a couple of weeks the CDK CLI and the CDK Construct Library will no longer be released in lockstep. Instead, they will both have their own rele...

The CDK CLI and the main library are going to split and their versions will diverge. Shouldn't really effect much but read more here:

github.com/aws/aws-cdk/...

Meme :drake-no: Blast Radius :drake-yes: Blame Radius

TIL

My friend @meistermeier.com wrote a nice post about #SpringBoot #Actuator meistermeier.com/2024/12/28/S... and why it is *not* insecure by default, in contrast what the folks at CCC implied. TL;DR: #VW apparently enabled it on purpose, opted out of security and went straight to production.

Wir wissen wo dein Auto steht Bewegungsdaten von 800.000 E-Autos sowie Kontaktinformationen zu den Besitzern standen ungeschützt im Netz. Sichtbar war, wer wann zu Hau...

We know where your #Volkswagen car is...

Scary but also fascinating talk how they got and analyzed TBs of location data.

media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-w...

Teach Me AWS - Blake's Log - Bake's Take: Who are the AWS Heroes? Some of you may have heard Dr Werner Vogels say 'listen to the heroes', but who are they?

You may have heard the AWS Heroes mentioned across the keynote stages last week, who are they? What content can you watch? We have you covered

www.teachmeaws.com/blakes-log/w...

Migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton on Amazon EKS using Karpenter | Amazon Web Services This blog was authored by Johannes Brück, Senior Staff Engineer (Personio), Donald Dragoti, Lead Platform Engineer (Personio), Steve Flinchbaugh, Lead Platform Engineer (Personio), Maximilian Schellhorn, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Dionysios Kakaletris, Technical Account Manager (AWS). Migrating your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) nodes to use AWS Graviton based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]

Great achievement by my colleagues here at #Personio

aws.amazon.com/blogs...

const app = new cdk.aws_servicecatalogappregistry.CfnApplication(this, 'MyApp', { name: 'MyApp', }); cdk.Tags.of(this).add('awsApplication', app.attrApplicationTagValue, { excludeResourceTypes: [ 'AWS::ServiceCatalogAppRegistry::Application', 'aws:cdk:stack', ], });

This article about #AWS myApplication unfortunately lacks the CDK setup. I have you covered (code in alt text).

aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/aut...

#ListenToTheHeroes

The experience with the cdk import command is really nice and takes away a lot of manual steps.

But if you start with a new stack as in my case, deploy an empty stack first before importing resources. The error message is very misleading... #awscdk

If you are using #AWS or just interested in solid technical advice, you should listen to the Heroes: bsky.app/profile/did:... #listentotheheroes

Two docker pull commands for ECR. One with the library prefix works while the other fails. But both should work ideally. ✅ docker pull 123456789012.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mirror/docker-hub/library/alpine ❌ docker pull 123456789012.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mirror/docker-hub/alpine

Hopefully #awswishlist works here as well: I want that the ECR PullThrough cache makes the `library` path for official images transparent

Currently it fails if the library prefix is missing but tools often allow only to set one prefix and that breaks for official images.

Yes, the heroes of @aws-community.de are curating a list here: bsky.app/profile/aws-...

In his keynote @werner.social said „Now go build“ and as we take Bias for Action serious, we built listen-to-the-heroes.com.

Thanks @hoegertn.de @pgarbe.bsky.social @lockhead.bsky.social @osterjour.bsky.social @abjoerne.bsky.social @monica.aws-he.ro for making this possible!

#ListenToTheHeroes

A good 400 session is when the first 5min could be another full 300 session #awsreinvent

I hope do too 😜

A few Heroes sitting at the lobby and hacking on a new project

Almost finished but taking a break now... #ListenToTheHeroes

Hello Heroes! #listentotheheroes

The AWS Heroes program is something very special.

The REAL heroes are the AWS employees who we've worked with for years.

Thank you @werner.social, @rossbarich.bsky.social, @farrah.bsky.social, & everyone else who I can't find in here yet 😂🥰

Summary of @werner.social keynote at AWS re:Invent👇