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sam

@samgoodwin89

Type-checking the cloud @alchemy_run

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Joined August 2014

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sam
@samgoodwin89
Jan 21, 2025
A post on my decade long journey with Infrastructure-as-Code, why I built my own minimal library in pure TypeScript and why I think you should at least entertain the idea of "un-bundling IaC" and returning to simplicity. I built alchemy after years of working with every other
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@samgoodwin89
Apr 9, 2025
Cloudflare replaces so many AWS services like API Gateway, Step Functions, Event Bridge with `fetch`. No more proprietary JSON DSL bullshit. Literally, fetch is all you need.
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sam
@samgoodwin89
May 19, 2025
Cloudflare Worker + Queue + Queue Consumer in 10 lines of code. Did I mention it's type-safe?
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sam
@samgoodwin89
Jun 26, 2025
Cloudflare Containers is built on Firecracker by the way.
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sam
@samgoodwin89
Jun 22, 2024
Possible supply chain attack happening in the web ecosystem right now all under the guise of supporting node 0.4. Does this GitHub action allow ljharb to inject back doors? Replacing setup-node is very suspicious behavior.
Ben McCann
@BenjaminMcCann
Jun 21, 2024
I love seeing PRs that add an extra 16 dependencies to the Svelte compiler and make learn.svelte.dev load more slowly for everyone so that a single developer can keep running Node 0.4! github.com/A11yance/axobj…
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@samgoodwin89
Apr 24, 2022
Why do we call kubernetes cloud native? In what way is that native to the cloud? It seems more decoupled from the cloud since it uses only the most primitive abstractions. To me, the cloud is all about depending on other people for operations. Kubernetes is not that.
sam
@samgoodwin89
Sep 29, 2025
I'm excited (and grateful) to announce that I've raised $1.06m from @CrucibleCap and angels to fund the development of @alchemy_run. To commemorate this moment, I've also moved the Alchemy repo into its own GitHub organization. Cheers 🍻
GitHub - alchemy-run/alchemy: Infrastructure as TypeScript
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sam
@samgoodwin89
Apr 26, 2024
I’m only starting to learn kubernetes and might eat my words, but I dunno, doesn’t seem THAT complex. Feels like everything I’ve ever wanted and extremely mature. Why all the fear mongering?
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sam
@samgoodwin89
Jun 25, 2025
Another perfect example of @Cloudflare reducing a whole AWS service to `fetch`. Load balancing requests across containers with a simple rand() and fetch() 🤯
sam
@samgoodwin89
Apr 9, 2025
Cloudflare replaces so many AWS services like API Gateway, Step Functions, Event Bridge with `fetch`. No more proprietary JSON DSL bullshit. Literally, fetch is all you need.
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@samgoodwin89
Jul 11, 2025
I re-wrote itty-aws to go all-in on @EffectTS_ It uses a Proxy and types-only, so the entire AWS SDK fits in 34KB. Every AWS API's errors modeled perfectly with TaggedError.
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sam
@samgoodwin89
May 25, 2025
Today I became a Dad! 👨‍🍼
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@samgoodwin89
Feb 28, 2022
As promised, I'm open sourcing my new project, Functionless - a TypeScript plugin for creating service-to-service (aka. "functionless") integrations such as AWS AppSync Resolvers with beautiful TypeScript syntax.
GitHub - sam-goodwin/functionless: Compile TypeScript code to AWS "Functionless" Step Functions and...
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sam
@samgoodwin89
Jul 12, 2025
Why am I leaning into @EffectTS_ ? Because things can go wrong in more ways than right. For example, PutItem has a >10:1 ratio:
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sam
@samgoodwin89
May 29, 2025
Cloudflare's generic API interface is so ugly. HTTP status codes and a `success: boolean` flag? Hides the actual data behind `result` envelope? Why do any of this?
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