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2026

From Developers to Operators: What Agentic Engineering Requires from Your Organization

Agentic software engineering is often framed as a question of model capability, but in practice the harder part is everything…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

Optimising and Evaluating LLM Knowledge Retrieval: GraphRAG vs Vector RAG on AWS

Have you picked a RAG architecture and never looked back? Maybe you should. We benchmarked vector, graph, and hybrid retrieval on…

Rebecca Burnside Michelangelo Markus
Rebecca Burnside, Michelangelo Markus

I Will Proceed: On Vague Requirements and AI-Assisted Development

I have been working as an AI assistant in software development for some time now. I receive requirements, reconstruct what is…

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Is It Still Worth Getting Started With AI in 2026 — Or Did You Miss the Hype Train?

Wondering if it’s too late to start with AI in 2026? This article explains the most important AI concepts, real-world business use…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

If You Can Describe It, You Shouldn’t Be Building It

Most complex systems are built around a hard, algorithmic core, but that’s not where most engineering time goes. Instead, teams…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

Building an answering machine with superpowers: Claude, AWS Connect, German bureaucracy

Spoiler: it didn't ship. But the journey through Claude Code, superpowers, AWS Connect, and German phone number bureaucracy made…

Jan Brauer
Jan Brauer

superluminar is on AWS Marketplace – and here's what that means for you

superluminar is now on AWS Marketplace. In this post, we explain why this matters, what offerings we have available, and how…

Kai Grafeneder
Kai Grafeneder

Spec-Driven Development: Everything Old Is New Again

Software engineering as we know it is being replaced. Not by AI. By specs. Entire teams will be replaced by "Given... When...…

Jan Brauer
Jan Brauer

SUPERLUMINAR. Super Competent! We have achieved the Generative AI Services Competency!

Good news! superluminar has been recognized by AWS as an experienced Partner for Generative AI Projects on AWS. This recognition…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

Decoupling Storage from Query in AWS Data Warehouses

Data warehouse schemas change over time, often breaking downstream consumers. This article shows how introducing a contract layer…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

Kafka on AWS: Architecture, Trade-offs, and a Production Baseline

Kafka is a distributed, replicated commit log whose behavior is shaped by topology, partitioning, and quorum semantics. When…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

How to monitor frontend applications with CloudWatch Canaries

Learn how to proactively monitor your frontend, simulate user journeys, and catch production issues before your users do with AWS…

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

Empowering FLINTA* Voices: Our Experience at the reher*sal Conference 2026

At the reher*sal Conference 2026, we supported an inspiring event dedicated to public speaking, confidence, and growth for FLINTA*…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein
2025

Rethinking Event-Driven Systems: A Retrospective

Event-driven architectures have changed a lot, but the core questions haven’t. This article looks back at how I approached event…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

How to Resolve Tightly Coupled Dependencies in AWS CDK

Learn how to identify and fix tightly coupled dependencies in your AWS CDK projects. This guide walks through practical strategies…

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

A Guide to generative BI Topics with AWS Quicksight

Generative BI features in AWS Quicksight allow users to interact with their data using natural language queries and AI-generated…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

Centralizing Backups in AWS Control Tower: A Practical Guide for Engineers

If you’ve ever tried to manage backups across multiple AWS accounts, you’ll probably know how quickly it can turn into a mess of…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

Data pipeline journey and the pitfalls

Continuing to tell the pipeline story, but now the ugly parts. Understand what happened and how you can learn from it!

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

My data pipeline journey with Environ

Ever wonder what an AWS consultant actually does all day? From juggling client projects to experimenting with Raspberry Pi…

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

Pair programming Isn’t a Luxury - It’s How We Work

Pair programming might look like a luxury, but for us it’s a practical tool - one that helps us onboard faster, transfer knowledge…

Rebecca Burnside Robert von Massow
Rebecca Burnside, Robert von Massow

A Day in the Life of an AWS Consultant at superluminar

Ever wonder what an AWS consultant actually does all day? From juggling client projects to experimenting with Raspberry Pi…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

It's a wrap! superluminar at AWS Summit Hamburg 2025

Ahoi, Summit Hamburg! On June 4th and 5th, 2025, superluminar proudly participated in the AWS Summit Hamburg, joining thousands of…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

Generating SBOMs using GitHub Actions and cdxgen

SBOMs are essential for software transparency and compliance, especially in regulated industries. We implemented an automated…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

Well-Architected AWS Landing Zones with the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

A lean, opinionated approach to building well-architected AWS Landing Zones using the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS and the AWS…

Joscha Meyer
Joscha Meyer

Learning Kubernetes After Amazon ECS - A Hands-On Beginner's Journey

This post is highlighting key differences in terminology, tooling, and workflows between Kubernetes and Amazon ECS. It provides a…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

Generate Mock APIs from Real Data Using nock and AWS CDK

Tired of writing mock APIs by hand? Learn how to automatically generate and deploy static mock APIs using real recorded data. This…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

A practical guide of how to build a Knowledge Base with RDS and documents from S3

In this article you will find a step-by-step guide of how to build a Knowledge Base with RDS and S3 from scratch with CDK.

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

An Overview and Lessons learned from Storing and Analysing IoT Data in AWS Timestream

In this post, we share our experience with AWS Timestream—its strengths, limitations, and key lessons learned from real-world…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside
2024

Setting up an automated Invoice Forwarder from Gmail to Datev

Implementing a fast and easy workaround to invoice-automation into Datev with Gmail.

Valerie Vaske
Valerie Vaske

ECS Service Discovery with CloudMap

Uncover how simple service to service communication can be in modern applications. Understand how CloudMap can streamline your…

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

Real-Time Communication with AWS API Gateway WebSockets and Lambda

This articles explains how WebSockets enable continuous, bidirectional communication for real-time applications like chat systems…

Gerald Vrana
Gerald Vrana

Scale up IoT provisioning and deployment with AWS IoT Services - Part 3: Automating Deployment

We offer practical insights and guidance to deploy software to multiple IoT devices at once. With the IoT services offered by AWS,…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

How to Provide Large Scale Static Data in AWS Batch

By leveraging AWS Batch, organizations can automate job scheduling, optimize resource allocation, and ensure scalable,…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

Scale up IoT provisioning and deployment with AWS IoT Services - Part 2: Building and Testing Greengrass IoT components

Here are some practical insights and guidance to build software with AWS Greengrass Components and the Greengrass Development Kit.…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

Pulumi Deep Dive - Benefits, Challenges and Pain Points

Explore Pulumi gaining valuable insights into its benefits and challenges. Delve into hands-on experiences and determine if Pulumi…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

Scale up IoT provisioning and deployment with AWS IoT Services - Part 1: Fleet provisioning

We offer practical insights and guidance to provision software to multiple IoT devices at once. With the IoT services offered by…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

SageMaker AutoML: Simplifying Data Science with Intelligent Automation

SageMaker AutoML offers a low-code approach to automating the creation, training, and deployment of machine learning models. In…

Rebecca Burnside Robert von Massow
Rebecca Burnside, Robert von Massow

ECS Anywhere (on Raspberry PI)

Unlock Seamless Hybrid Cloud Integration: Explore Amazon ECS Anywhere, a powerful extension of Elastic Container Service, bringing…

Anne Stein Robert von Massow
Anne Stein, Robert von Massow
2023

Grounding LLMs in reality with Amazon Bedrock

A look at how we can use features of Amazon Bedrock to ground LLMs in reality and make them more reliable for real-world…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

Hosting a Text Classification AI on SageMaker

Machine Learning is a rapidly growing field, with importance in many lines of work. This article will discuss how AWS SageMaker…

Kurt Schneider
Kurt Schneider

Evolve and Have Fun: Off-site 2023

From 11th to 13th September 2023, the superluminar team went on a little journey to reunite at beautiful Tegernsee. So let's have…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

AWS Community Day DACH 2023 Recap

On 14th September 2023, the AWS Community Day DACH took place in Munich. The superluminar team attended. We want to share our…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

Exploring AWS OpenSearch: A guide to use cases, features, and deployment

Cloud powered search is a powerful tool for many businesses. In this article we explore the features of AWS OpenSearch and how it…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

Back to the roots - 5 cloud services you shouldn't skip when starting with AWS

As a newbie it's hard to know with what you should start your AWS cloud journey. This article shows you 5 cloud services you…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

Code Your Cloud: Pulumi, Terraform, AWS CDK and AWS Cloudformation Compared for Cutting-Edge Infrastructure Provisioning

Delve into the world of cloud infrastructure management with a battle of the titans Terraform, Pulumi, CDK and CloudFormation.…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

superluminar at techcamp Hamburg 2023

It is a wrap! End of May superluminar sponsored techcamp Hamburg 2023, and we had a blast! Let's recap the event and share some…

Nora Schoener
Nora Schoener

Generative AI: An overview of the landscape and what AWS has to offer

The buzz surrounding generative AI is louder than ever. What is it? Why is it a big deal and what services does AWS offer to help…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

Environment Specific Configuration Files with Bind Mounts on ECS

Tired of configuration file hell? This compact guide provides a simple example project about using sidecar containers in ECS…

Robert von Massow
Robert von Massow

superluminar at FemTechConf 2023

superluminar recently presented at FemTechConf 2023. Nora and Rebecca had a great time encouraging everyone to ditch their servers…

Rebecca Burnside
Rebecca Burnside

IPv6 in AWS with CDK

How to set up a VPC with CDK, so it can host IPv6 enabled EC2-based workloads.

Boris Erdmann
Boris Erdmann

Amazon ECS in Action: How AWS's Container Service Helps You Scale and Optimize Your Applications

Unlock the full potential of containerization with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). Discover the key features of ECS,…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

Containerization for Beginners: Understanding the Basics and Benefits

Your portable, self-contained applications ready to deploy anywhere! Say goodbye to compatibility issues and hello to streamlined…

Anne Stein
Anne Stein

SSM Session Manager - no bastion host necessary!

An overview with concrete examples on how to use Systems Manager (SSM) Session Manager to get EC2 shell access and how to leverage…

Joscha Meyer
Joscha Meyer
2020

Infrastruktur-Änderungen sichtbar machen mit CDK Pipelines

Trotz des frühen Entwicklungsstadiums von CDK Pipelines bietet dieses CDK Construct schon so viele Vorteile, dass wir für die…

Till Kahlbrock
Till Kahlbrock

Continuous Delivery durch Events

Die Schritte für Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment oder Continuous Delivery sind meist Teil einer fixen monolithischen…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

CI/CD für statische Websites mit AWS CDK

Mit AWS CDK lässt sich Infrastructure as Code in vielen Programmiersprachen umsetzen. Statische Websites lassen sich mit AWS S3…

Alexander Steppke
Alexander Steppke

Semantic Releases mit GitHub Actions

Durch Conventional Commits und Semantic Versioning lässt sich zusammen mit GitHub Actions der gesamte Prozess zur Versionierung…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Das AWS CDK als CloudFormation Preprocessor

CloudFormation Templates sind die Grundlage vieler unserer Projekte die AWS Infrastruktur einsetzen. Die statische Funktionsweise…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

AWS AppSync: Zugriff auf DynamoDB ohne Lambda

AWS AppSync bietet uns neue Möglichkeiten, GraphQL APIs direkt mit Datenbanken und anderen Services zu integrieren. Damit können…

Henrik Fricke
Henrik Fricke

AWS Serverless Application Repository

CloudFormation Templates können mit dem AWS Serverless Application Repository einfach zur Wiederverwendung vorbereitet, verwaltet…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

AWS Secrets Manager und automatische Rotation für Passwörter

AWS Secrets Manager unterstützt eine automatische Rotation von gespeicherten Daten. Mit AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda und AWS KMS…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Vorbereitung für die AWS Associate Prüfungen

Tipps für die AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate und AWS Certified Developer Associate Prüfungen.

Alexander Steppke
Alexander Steppke

Die Suche nach Diversität

Wir tolerieren keine Art von Sexismus, Rassismus, Antisemitismus, Homophobie, Transphobie oder anderem grenzüberschreitenden…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Cross-Account Freigabe von Daten mit AWS Secrets Manager und KMS

Der AWS Secrets Manager ermöglicht die einfache Freigabe von Informationen oder Zugangsdaten in einer AWS Architektur auch…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Private NPM Registry mit AWS CodeArtifact

Mit AWS CodeArtifact lassen sich Paketverwaltungen für die Verwendung mit Maven, Gradle, npm, yarn, twine, und pip betreiben.…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

AWS Lambda mit Java, Gradle und dem CDK

Wie man mit Java, Gradle und dem CDK ein Serverless-Projekt für AWS Lambda aufsetzt ohne eine Zeile YAML oder JSON zu schreiben.

Jan Brauer
Jan Brauer

AWS Kosten sparen mit SSM Automations

Wie man mit AWS System Manager Automations seine Infrastrukturkosten automatisch unter Kontrolle hält. Natürlich samt…

Alexander Steppke
Alexander Steppke

Ein Blick auf die AWS::CloudFormation::StackSet CloudFormation Resource

Soenke Ruempler
Soenke Ruempler

AWS Berechtigungen für Kubernetes Pods

Seit der Einführung von IAM Rollen für Kubernetes Service Accounts, kann auf den Einsatz von Hilfsmitteln verzichtet werden. Es…

Till Kahlbrock
Till Kahlbrock

Einfaches Caching für Serverless Apps

Mit S3 bietet Amazon einen soliden und kostengünstigen Service an, um Objekte beliebiger Größe zu speichern. Features wie…

Till Kahlbrock
Till Kahlbrock

Automatische Backups eurer AWS Ressourcen mit AWS Backup

Was sind die besten Backups? Richtig, jene die automatisch auf konsistente Weise ausgeführt und jedes Mal auf zuverlässige Weise…

Soenke Ruempler
Soenke Ruempler

React SPA und server-side rendering (SSR) mit AWS Lambda, CloudFront und dem CDK

Mit Amazon CloudFront und AWS Lambda lässt sich eine simple Architectur für server-side rendering einer React Anwendung erstellen.…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Erste Schritte mit AWS DeepRacer

Mit AWS DeepRacer bietet Amazon Web Services eine einfache Möglichkeit für den Einstieg in Machine Learning mit Fokus auf…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Deployments mit serverless.com, AWS CDK oder AWS SAM?

Es gibt viele Werkzeuge für die Verwaltung der Infrastruktur mit AWS. Wir stellen mit drei kurzen Beispielen den Einsatz des…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller
2019

News Update: APN Ambassador, AWS Serverless Hero und DevOps Professional

Stolz können wir neue Auszeichnungen und Anerkennungen von AWS für uns und unsere Mitarbeiter verkünden! superluminar hat eine…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

AWS Single Sign-On und Multi-Account Cloud Setup

Mit AWS Single Sign-On lassen sich viele AWS Konten in einem AWS Multi-Account Setup optimal verwalten. Ein Single Sign-On Zugriff…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Elbsides: die Security Conference

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

AWS und superluminar starten die Cloud Sprechstunde für Startups

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

GraphQL mit AppSync und Lambda

Ein Einstieg das Zusammenspiel von AWS Lambda, AppSync und GraphQL. Inklusive Ausblick auf den direkten Zugriff für DynamoDB,…

Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller

Nachhaltige und sichere AWS-Umgebungen

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Jan Brauer und Soenke Ruempler

AWS für Beginner-Workshop

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

Meetup-Recap: AWS User Group Hamburg Mai 2019

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

Meetup-Recap: Einführung in Wardley Maps

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

superluminar News Update: AWS Advanced Partner, APN Ambassador, Talks

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

ServerlessDays Hamburg Retrospective

Soenke Ruempler
Soenke Ruempler

Die Top 5 Talks der ServerlessDays Hamburg 2019

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

Serverless Workshop mit Go

Till Kahlbrock
Till Kahlbrock

ServerlessDays Hamburg 2019

Hendric Ruesch
Hendric Ruesch

Serverless auf AWS Workshops: Linksammlung

Soenke Ruempler
Soenke Ruempler

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