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Nima Kaviani

Author: Nima Kaviani

Nima is a Principal Architect at AWS and a long time open source contributor to projects like Spinnaker, Knative, and Cloud Foundry with a primary focus on helping large scale enterprises operate their cloud technologies effectively. Nima's main interests involve Kubernetes, Gitops, and DevOps tooling. Nima holds a PhD in computer science and tweets and blogs about CI/CD, infrastructure-as-Code, Serverless, Kubernetes and other distributed systems (find him on Twitter @nimak).

Comparing AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

DevOps is a common denominator for software delivery across industries. No matter the software, developers must ensure that infrastructure resources are provisioned; testing and delivery mechanisms are in place; and security, reliability, and scalability requirements are provided. That is why choosing the right DevOps tooling is central to a delivery team’s best practices, particularly in […]

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AWS is doubling down on improving the open source continuous delivery experience for our customers

We are thrilled to announce that AWS is joining the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) as a Premier member. Continuous delivery is the bridge between software that our customers build and cloud services that AWS offers, and CDF is the interface to the community that is driving many important innovations in this space. We join the […]

Enhancing Spinnaker deployment experience of AWS Lambda functions with the Lambda plugin

This post was written by Jason Coffman, Gaurav Dhamija, Vikrant Kahlir, Nima Kaviani, Brandon Leach, Shyam Maniyedath, and Shrirang Moghe. Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform that allows for fast-paced, reliable, and repeatable deployment of software to the cloud. For many AWS customers, including Airbnb, Pinterest, Snap, Autodesk, and Salesforce, Spinnaker is a critical piece of technology that […]