Philipp Garbe
pgarbe.bsky.social
Philipp Garbe
@pgarbe.bsky.social
Living in Bavaria | Working in the Cloud | AWS Container Hero | garbe.io
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
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.
garbe.io
July 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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
June 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
Submit your session — AWS Community Day DACH
www.aws-community-day.de
April 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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 :)
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Btw, the call for papers / speakers is starting soon...

@aws-community.de #AWS #AWSCommunity #AWSCommunityDayDACH
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…
www.linkedin.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Reposted by Philipp Garbe
🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 I’m now offering AWS Serverless & Platform Engineering Consulting!

My services include:
🔹 Platform Engineering scaling
🔹 Serverless design reviews
🔹 AWS SaaS & DevOps guidance
💡 Book a consultation: ranthebuilder.cloud

#AWS #Serverless
Master AWS Serverless & Platform Engineering | Ran The Builder
Everything AWS Serverless and platform engineering. Learn to build and design production-ready AWS Serverless services with AWS CDK and AWS Lambda best practices. Accelerate development across your de...
ranthebuilder.cloud
March 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Always useful and recently updated: www.duckbillgroup.com/understandin...
Understanding Data Transfer in AWS
Understanding Data Transfer in AWS
www.duckbillgroup.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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...
February 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hopefully this clarifies how to pronounce IAM 😜 // cc @quinnypig.com @brookejamieson.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Philipp Garbe
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.
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…
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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...
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 ...
sessionize.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Infrastructure management teams? I'm old enough to know when it was called "Ops" teams infrastructure-as-code.com/post/infrast...
Infrastructure Platform Teams
An infrastructure management team is not as effective as an infrastructure platform.
infrastructure-as-code.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reposted by Philipp Garbe
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/...
❗ 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...
github.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
TIL
January 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by Philipp Garbe
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.
Gerrit's Blog
meistermeier.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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...
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...
media.ccc.de
January 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Philipp Garbe
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...
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?
www.teachmeaws.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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
December 10, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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
December 10, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Philipp Garbe
If you are using #AWS or just interested in solid technical advice, you should listen to the Heroes: bsky.app/profile/did:... #listentotheheroes
December 10, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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.
December 10, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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
Listen to the AWS Heroes
As Werner said at his AWS re:Invent Keynote 2024 - Listen to the AWS Heroes
listen-to-the-heroes.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:11 AM
A good 400 session is when the first 5min could be another full 300 session #awsreinvent
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Almost finished but taking a break now... #ListenToTheHeroes
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Hello Heroes! #listentotheheroes
December 6, 2024 at 6:22 AM