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Hi there, I’m Kenley (@revrost), an engineer currently working at Immutable. I’ve been building software since I was 11 years old. Building products that people use is my biggest passion.

I am all for action over inaction and value iterating over planning. You can probably find me talking about cloud architecture, software philosophy, stock investing, fight club culture, and a sprinkle of LLMs.

On the side, I’m currently working on Marketpal. Thanks for stopping by!

Not taking a side in collaboration (Software engineering) is criminal.

It frustrates me to no end that some engineers in this industry refuse to take a side in technical discussions or debates—especially those in higher ranks or positions of authority. Have some bloody courage, take a side, and be accountable. It’s okay to make mistakes. It’s okay to be wrong. But it’s not okay to hold others back from making progress because you’re too afraid of being wrong or too hesitant to accept responsibility. ...

November 12, 2024 · 1 min · Kenley Bastari

Fight Club Culture

Ever since I watched Fight Club during COVID, I’ve been fascinated by its raw yet straightforward message. It struck a chord with me. The ideas in Fight Club weren’t entirely new to me. Coming from a third-world country and learning English as a second language, I’d always sensed these principles but could never quite articulate them as the film does. Re-watching it reminded me of these values—the “Fight Club” values. ...

November 7, 2024 · 2 min · Kenley Bastari

Running Playwright-Go In AWS Lambda

There is a few bit of articles around how to run playwright with puppetter online but there is no content out there on how to run Playwright-Go specifically in AWS Lambda. This is a guide on how to do it. At least how I’ve done it anyway. I was originally using SST.dev as an IAC for my lambda deployments. However, annoyingly enough they don’t support container image as lambda functions. So I am currently doing it manually however I am contemplating to move to AWS CDK because of this. ...

June 29, 2024 · 3 min · Kenley Bastari

Resolution

Hi world and my blog that I left in the dust for years. Today is the year 2024, I’ve been on hiatus on this blog and AI is taking over the world. Just wanted to add some kind of a new year resolution, writing this just after Lunar New Year of course. By the end of the year, I should: have 10 books read make at least 1 commit every single day exercise for at least 30 mins a day have finish at least one of my side projects not be shy of writing blogs/thoughts contribute to one useful open source repo

February 11, 2024 · 1 min · Kenley