Igor Fil

I'm Igor, an AWS Solutions Architect helping startups build resilient, scalable cloud systems. With nearly a decade building the cloud at Amazon and in the cloud for startups to enterprises, I design solutions that handle spikes, cut costs, and drive growth. I advise select startups, turning tech challenges into wins.

Resilience ≠ Slowing Down — Building AI Systems That Survive Contact with Reality

June 11, 2026

Resilience isn’t the opposite of speed — ignorance is. At AWS Summit Los Angeles, I talked about why AI startups need Business Impact Analysis, targeted recovery objectives, and a framework that treats resilience, security, and cost as the same architectural problem.

RAG Is Just a Search Engine Bolted to a Language Model

May 6, 2026

RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation — is a search engine bolted to a language model. Instead of stuffing all your documents into the prompt (impossible) or baking facts into weights via fine-tuning (inflexible), RAG retrieves only the relevant chunks at query time and feeds them to the model. This post breaks down how indexing and query pipelines work, why hybrid search and reranking matter, and when to use RAG vs. fine-tuning.

I Made My iPhone Dumb. Here’s What Changed

March 30, 2026

I nuked Instagram, X, YouTube, and most of my apps. Notifications stopped. My brain stopped feeling violated. Two weeks later, I’m drinking coffee without doom-scrolling. Here’s the honest truth about going semi-dumb in 2026.

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