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> Technical articles on AWS, AI, serverless, and cloud-native architecture by Andrii Melashchenko

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## Articles

- [Why My Blog's MCP Server Has No Authentication](https://javatask.dev/blog/building-a-public-mcp-server-for-your-blog/index.md): Passive signals like llms.txt are a start, but MCP turns your blog into an active API for AI agents. Here is how to build a serverless MCP server on Lambda — and why skipping OAuth was the right …
- [Why Quadlet Is Different, Part 3: Production Lifecycle on the Factory Floor](https://javatask.dev/blog/why-quadlet-is-different-part-3-production-lifecycle-on-the-factory-floor-wip/index.md): On the factory floor, lifecycle management means: does the protocol bridge know the hardware watchdog died? Does the historian flush before the power cut? This post covers push-based readiness, kernel …
- [Why Quadlet Is Different, Part 2: Defence-in-Depth Cybersecurity at the Service Level](https://javatask.dev/blog/why-quadlet-is-different-part-2-defence-in-depth-cybersecurity-at-the-service-level-wip/index.md): IEC 62443 demands defence-in-depth for industrial control systems. This post covers the systemd hardening directives that Quadlet exposes and Compose structurally cannot — filesystem isolation, kernel …
- [Why Quadlet Is Different, Part 1: Resource Governance That Compose Can't Express](https://javatask.dev/blog/why-quadlet-is-different-part-1-resource-governance-that-compose-can-t-express/index.md): Compose sits on top of the OS; Quadlet sits inside it. This post examines the resource governance directives — soft memory throttles, CPU core pinning, I/O bandwidth caps, and hierarchical slice …
- [From AI Intern to AI Employee](https://javatask.dev/blog/from-ai-intern-to-ai-employee/index.md): Our CEO's AI Intern graduated — now it's time for a promotion. This post migrates the CEO Financial Advisor from native Bedrock Agents to Strands Agents SDK with AWS AgentCore Runtime, comparing …
- [Podman Quadlets: A Lightweight Deployment Profile for the Industrial Edge](https://javatask.dev/blog/podman-quadlets-a-lightweight-deployment-profile-for-the-industrial-edge/index.md): Margo PR1 supports Helm and Compose deployment profiles, but many resource-constrained industrial edge devices cannot run either. This article proposes Podman Quadlets as a third profile type that …
- [Bridging the Gap: MCP vs. AWS Bedrock for Industrial AI Integration](https://javatask.dev/blog/mcp-vs-aws-bedrock-industrial-ai-integration/index.md): MCP offers openness and vendor independence but adds operational complexity. AWS Bedrock Agents deliver managed security and tight integration but limit flexibility. Belden's real-world experience …
- [Data Architecture as the Trust Foundation for Industrial AI](https://javatask.dev/blog/data-architecture-foundation-industrial-ai/index.md): Trust in AI recommendations requires longitudinal data. This article explains how Lakehouse architecture (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi) enables OT operators to validate AI decisions with years of …
- [AI Agents as Digital Employees in Industrial OT](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-agents-as-digital-employees-industrial-ot/index.md): AI agents in OT act like digital employees, requiring clear instructions and quality data. This article explores their deployment in industrial networks, including a real VLAN troubleshooting demo on …
- [Perfect Technology Storm: The Beginning of Software Engineering 3.0](https://javatask.dev/blog/perfect-technology-storm-the-beginning-of-software-engineering-30/index.md): Four technology waves — big data, microservices, generative AI, and their convergence — are creating a perfect storm that makes traditional UI-centric development obsolete. In Software Engineering …
- [The Dawn of AI Workforce: A 2025 Perspective](https://javatask.dev/blog/the-dawn-of-ai-workforce-a-2025-perspective/index.md): AWS CEO Matt Garman introduced Inference as the fourth cloud building block alongside Compute, Storage, and Databases. This article explores how Inference enables an AI workforce that operates 24/7, …
- [How to Define AI Agents with Cloudformation and SAM: A Builder's Guide](https://javatask.dev/blog/how-to-define-ai-agents-with-cloudformation-and-sam-a-builders-guide/index.md): A step-by-step technical guide to defining AWS Bedrock AI Agents using CloudFormation and SAM. Covers action group configuration with Lambda functions, agent instructions, foundation model selection, …
- [Developing an AI Intern for C-Level Executives with AWS Bedrock](https://javatask.dev/blog/developing-an-ai-intern-for-c-level-executives-with-aws-bedrock/index.md): A practical walkthrough of building an AI Agent on AWS Bedrock that acts as a financial analyst intern for a CEO. The agent queries ERP data, calculates hospitality business metrics, generates an …
- [What C-Level Leaders Need to Know About AI Agents](https://javatask.dev/blog/what-c-level-leaders-need-to-know-about-ai-agents/index.md): A non-technical introduction to generative AI for executives, told through a conversation between a bakery CEO and his daughter. Covers mental models for LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented …
- [Why Serverless May Not Be the Ultimate Solution](https://javatask.dev/blog/why-serverless-may-not-be-the-ultimate-solution/index.md): Serverless computing offers clear benefits but is not the final paradigm. Emerging trends like AI-managed Kubernetes, renewable energy, and local power grids could bring compute back on-premises. When …
- [Introduction to AWS SiteWise: Part 1. An IIoT OPC UA End-to-End Guide](https://javatask.dev/blog/introduction-to-aws-sitewise-part-1-an-iiot-opc-ua-end-to-end-guide/index.md): First part of a series on building an end-to-end IIoT monitoring solution with AWS IoT SiteWise and OPC UA. Introduces the architecture for monitoring network device health from edge to cloud, covers …
- [Fixing Issues in AWS VPC with AI Help](https://javatask.dev/blog/fixing-issues-in-aws-vpc-with-ai-help/index.md): Build a LangChain-based AI agent that uses AWS Bedrock Claude 3 Sonnet and shell access to automatically diagnose and fix AWS VPC misconfigurations. Includes a CloudFormation template to simulate …
- [AI Unleashed: Local Chat Bot](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-unleashed-local-chat-bot/index.md): Guide to setting up a local ChatGPT-like chatbot using Ollama Web UI on Ubuntu 22.04 with WSL2. Covers installing Node.js, building the Ollama Web UI frontend and backend without containers, …
- [AI Unleashed: Assembling Local Engines. CPU Only](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-unleashed-assembling-local-engines-cpu-only/index.md): Practical tutorial for running open-source LLMs locally on Windows 10/11 using CPU only. Walks through installing Ubuntu on WSL2, configuring memory allocation, setting up the Ollama framework, and …
- [Understanding Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases: Key Points](https://javatask.dev/blog/understanding-amazon-bedrock-knowledge-bases-key-points/index.md): A story-driven guide to building a retrieval-augmented generation system with AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Follows a fictional company using S3 data import, OpenSearch vector database, and hosted LLMs …
- [AI Unleashed: Running Generative Models Locally. Introduction](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-unleashed-running-generative-models-locally-introduction/index.md): Introduction to running generative AI models locally on consumer hardware for safe experimentation with real data. Covers key concepts like LLMs, AI agents, and CUDA, outlines the series roadmap …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 8. Serverless](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-8-serverless/index.md): Go fully serverless by deploying a Spring Boot 3 REST API as an AWS Lambda function. Refactor the backend with a single Lambda handler wrapper, define infrastructure using the AWS SAM framework, and …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 7. AWS App Runner](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-7-aws-app-runner/index.md): Replace EC2 with AWS App Runner for a production-grade backend. Deploy a containerized REST API with built-in health checks, AWS X-Ray observability, and seamless rolling updates triggered from the …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 6. One Click](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-6-one-click/index.md): Automate the entire SPA deployment on AWS with a single bash script. The one-click script provisions Cognito, deploys the backend and frontend CloudFormation stacks, creates a test user, builds the UI …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 5. Connecting dots](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-5-connecting-dots/index.md): Connect the frontend, backend, and authentication layers into a working end-to-end SPA on AWS. Update CloudFront to route /api requests to API Gateway, add a Cognito authorizer to protect the backend …
- [Creating an AWS Setup for Testing GraphDB and Generative AI Applications](https://javatask.dev/blog/graphdb-and-generative-ai-enhancing-cybersecurity-with-artificial-intelligence/index.md): Step-by-step guide to setting up AWS Neptune graph database with Generative AI using AWS Bedrock Claude 2. Covers tooling including Gremlin query language, Jupyter Lab, HAProxy for VPC connectivity, …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 4. Authentication](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-4-authentication/index.md): Add authentication to a single-page application using AWS Cognito as an OpenID server. Deploy a Cognito User Pool and Client with CloudFormation, create users via the CLI, integrate the Cognito Hosted …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 3. REST API](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-3-rest-api/index.md): Build a secure REST API backend on AWS by setting up a private Elastic Container Registry, deploying a containerized app on an EC2 instance via CloudFormation, and exposing it through API Gateway as …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 2. Secure Static Hosting](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-2-secure-static-hosting/index.md): Step-by-step guide to deploying secure static hosting on AWS using CloudFormation. Creates an S3 bucket with encryption and public access blocking, a CloudFront distribution with HTTPS redirect and …
- [Deploying a Single Page Application (SPA) on AWS: A Beginner's Guide. Part 1. Theory](https://javatask.dev/blog/deploying-a-single-page-application-spa-on-aws-a-beginners-guide-part-1-theory/index.md): A guide to migrating single-page applications to AWS. Covers the FROSST principles for cloud-ready apps, prerequisites including AWS CLI and containerized backends, the three-tier SPA architecture, …
- [AI-Powered Machine Customers: Revolutionizing Marketing and Sales with the EU Digital Identity Wallet](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-powered-machine-customers-revolutionizing-marketing-and-sales-with-the-eu-digital-identity-wallet/index.md): The EU Digital Identity Wallet can authenticate AI agents to business APIs, turning them into Machine Customers. This shift transforms marketing from human-centric to data-driven strategies and moves …
- [A Beginner's Guide to AWS Bedrock: Exploring Amazon's AI Generation Service](https://javatask.dev/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-aws-bedrock-exploring-amazons-ai-generation-service/index.md): A practical walkthrough of using AWS Bedrock with Anthropic Claude 2 for document summarization. Covers setting up boto3, building LangChain MapReduce chains in Python, and summarizing PDFs. …
- [AI-powered software development. Part 2-1.Tests Generation](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-powered-software-development-part-2-1tests-generation/index.md): Hands-on guide to generating unit, integration, and performance tests using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Walks through real examples with Jest and k6, showing where AI-generated tests succeed and fail, …
- [IoT Edge Runtime with AWS Greengrass. Tunneling.](https://javatask.dev/blog/iot-edge-runtime-with-aws-greengrass-tunneling/index.md): Guide to establishing secure communication between an EC2 instance and a REST API server running on AWS Greengrass using AWS IoT Secure Tunneling. Covers compiling the localproxy binary, copying it to …
- [IoT Edge Runtime with AWS Greengrass. Build  and deploy custom component.](https://javatask.dev/blog/iot-edge-runtime-with-aws-greengrass-build-and-deploy-custom-component/index.md): Walk-through for deploying a custom Java REST API component to AWS Greengrass. Covers building a Spring Boot application, uploading the JAR to S3, configuring IAM permissions, writing a Greengrass …
- [IoT Edge Runtime with AWS Greengrass. Setup.](https://javatask.dev/blog/iot-edge-runtime-with-aws-greengrass-setup/index.md): Step-by-step guide to setting up AWS Greengrass using Docker. Covers building a custom Greengrass Docker image with required dependencies, configuring environment variables with temporary AWS …
- [IoT Edge Runtime with AWS Greengrass. Introduction.](https://javatask.dev/blog/iot-edge-runtime-with-aws-greengrass-introduction/index.md): This post introduces a four-part series on using AWS Greengrass as an open-source edge runtime to deploy custom business logic on-premise. It covers the use case of running a REST API server at the …
- [Platform engineering. Introduction](https://javatask.dev/blog/platform-engineering-introduction/index.md): An introduction to platform engineering based on Team Topologies. Explains how platform teams reduce cognitive load for stream-aligned teams by managing sidecar proxies, Kubernetes infrastructure, and …
- [An efficient way to build your serverless microservices. Part 3. CI/CD with AWS SAM.](https://javatask.dev/blog/an-efficient-way-to-build-your-serverless-microservices-part-3-cicd-with-aws-sam/index.md): Part 3 of the serverless microservices series covering CI/CD pipeline generation with AWS SAM and GitHub Actions. Demonstrates bootstrapping pipeline infrastructure, configuring unit tests with Jest, …
- [AI-powered development. Part  1. Introduction](https://javatask.dev/blog/ai-powered-development-part-1-introduction/index.md): AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are transforming software development. This introductory article presents practical use cases for AI-assisted coding, including test generation, code …
- [An efficient way to build your serverless microservices. Part 2. Development in the Cloud.](https://javatask.dev/blog/an-efficient-way-to-build-your-serverless-microservices-part-2-development-in-the-cloud/index.md): Part 2 of the serverless microservices series covering cloud deployment with AWS SAM. Walks through deploying Lambda functions, configuring samconfig.toml for multi-stage environments, live code …
- [An efficient way to build your serverless microservices. Part 1.  Local Development.](https://javatask.dev/blog/an-efficient-way-to-build-your-serverless-microservices-part-1-local-development/index.md): Part 1 of the serverless microservices series covering local development with AWS SAM. Shows how to set up a GraphQL Lambda using Apollo Server, esbuild bundling, ES modules, Jest testing, and local …