Principal Architect and Engineering Managerhttps://kaplonski.eu/en-ushttps://kaplonski.eu/insights/you-can-t-automate-a-process-that-doesn-t-exist/https://kaplonski.eu/insights/you-can-t-automate-a-process-that-doesn-t-exist/A case study on building a unified CI/CD pipeline across six engineering teams. Before designing a tool, you must design and negotiate the engineering process itself.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kaplonski.eu/insights/engineering-ai-agents-moving-beyond-creative-statistics-to-build-pragmatic-dev-tools/https://kaplonski.eu/insights/engineering-ai-agents-moving-beyond-creative-statistics-to-build-pragmatic-dev-tools/There is a massive chasm between asking a chatbot to write boilerplate code and building production-grade, cost-efficient agentic workflows. Here is how I engineered a highly deterministic, dirt-cheap agentic workflow to automate AWS RDS rightsizing.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kaplonski.eu/insights/rds-rightsizing-a-practical-guide/https://kaplonski.eu/insights/rds-rightsizing-a-practical-guide/Using CloudWatch metrics to make smarter decisions about instance size, replicas, and storage. A hands-on preview of translating engineering heuristics into structured logic.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT