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Yan Cui

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Yan Cui

@theburningmonk

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Joined February 2011

Yan Cui
@theburningmonk
Dec 7, 2025
Playing FF16 after expedition 33 makes me sad just how far square has fallen.. the combat is fine and it’s good to see summons take centre stage in the story, but everything else just pales in comparison to exp 33
Yan Cui
@theburningmonk
Dec 4, 2025
mm.. did AWS release Lambda Managed Instances without CloudFormation support? The AWS::Lambda::Function type doesn't let you choose the managed instance option, but the CreateFunction API does. And there doesn't appear to be a CloudFormation type for Lambda capacity providers.
Yan Cui
@theburningmonk
Dec 1, 2025
This is HUGE! It solves the "Lambda is expensive at scale" problem, and avoids the "having to manage infra yourself" problem with self-hosted FAAS solutions.
Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | Amazon Web...
From aws.amazon.com
Yan Cui
@theburningmonk
Sep 19, 2025
What would you say are the hard parts of serverless?
Yan Cui
@theburningmonk
Sep 10, 2025
TIL “poop umbrella” - someone who protects the team from all the 💩 that comes their way 😂

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