Modern TDD can be hard to implement when we spend too much time wrestling with infrastructure mocks and unclear requirements. I wrote a blog post on using AI to generate spes that drive your tests and implementation. I take you through 🧵

I’ve been experimenting with local LLMs on iOS and Android to automate tasks. By luck, I saw the discussion on HN about the same topic as well about the Google AI Edge Gallery app. I wanted to ask, if you all are running your models locally and if so what are your device specs?

I wrote about Component Hydration for Server Side Rendering with #Jaspr. In case you are new to the concept, check it out, let me know what you think about it and of course show some love to the blog if you enjoyed it :) dev.to/salihgueler/...

Didn’t have a chance to share my experience #CloudFestPoland yet. Talked about best practices for AI coding assistants, showcased my HackerNews Sentiment Analyzer and met incredible people there 🤘 Check the repo for the agent we built: github.com/salihgueler/...

Live with @094459.bsky.social today at 14:30 CET. Talking MCP servers, prompt best practices, and building software while building our game. Watch on Twitch (@salihgueler) or YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1OH... Here's a clip where we use Playwright to let AI test its own features.

Ricardo and I are carrying on building our fun app. Now it is time to deploy it for folks to test while discussing the best practices and adding missing pieces. Join us tomorrow (March 17th) at 13:30 CET and let's have some fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jpC...

We are nearing the conclusion of the backend development for our game project during today's livestream with Ricardo Sueiras. This marks our TENTH episode, and it has been an incredible journey. Join the livestream today (February 26th) 13:30 CET www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGj...

Hey everyone! We are kicking of the first Amplify Community Meeting today (February 25th) at 5pm CET (GMT+1)! Join us for: - Demos from the Amplify team. - Ask questions to the Amplify team. - Tell us what you are building. - Giving feedback. luma.com/pk2stv02

Last week in Zurich, we gathered with great folks from the Bitrise and Zurich communities to talk about building mobile applications with AI. Many of the folks asked the prompts. You can find them here: github.com/salihgueler/... Check the video below to see what you might build:)

It has been 4 weeks since Ricardo Sueiras and I started the livestream series called "Fullstack for Noobs". We are building a game live over Twitch, YouTube and LinkedIn by using Kiro and discussing a lot of technical points to build this game. (1/3)

Flying to Frankfurt for AWS User Group Frankfurt meetup today! The agenda is great, I am bringing some SWAG with me and most importantly there are a few spots still open! If you are around, go ahead and grab the remaining seats and let's talk some tech tonight! www.meetup.com/de-de/fra_aw...

Around half an hour (February 5th 14:30 CET), @094459.bsky.social and I will be live streaming to build a software. We have been doing it for a while now and in our fifth episode(wow!), we will go deeper on building our game. Here is a sneak peak of what we do at the livestream. Links are in thread

I ported the Vercel's React best practices Agent Skills to Kiro Power so you can run them on Kiro. 👻 Are you wondering, why or how I did it? You might be also asking, what are Kiro Powers? You can read about it on my blog post here: dev.to/kirodotdev/a...

Astro is joining Cloudflare. As an Astro fan, I am excited and curious about its future. :) astro.build/blog/joining...

After a long break, I am officially back. The goal of the year stays the same, make cloud less scary for frontend and mobile app developers. One of the first events of the year is the Mobile Development with Generative AI event in Zurich! Sign up below! bit.ly/mobile-devel...

Watch @salihgueler.dev introduce KIRO, a new agentic development platform designed to rethink the entire software lifecycle by enabling developers to collaborate with AI agents who can plan, design, and implement complex features from high-level prompts. Full Video: youtu.be/l_s2Ar6cT9k

Finally I am settled in after a few weeks of talks and travelling. Let's start with this. 2 weeks ago I had a chance to meet with the great JS community during ZurichJS. We learned a lot about cloud and the fullstack development. I know I promised you a content on agents and it is coming :)

🚀 AWS Cloud Club Captain başvuruları açık! "Topluluk kurma işleri çok değerli, hem kişisel gelişim hem network için süper" diyorsan kesinlikle başvur! Şartlar basit: • Üniversite öğrencisi ol • 12+ ay aktif kal • Cloud'a ilgin olsun Link: lnkd.in/gKaFuKgr Sorular varsa DM! 💪 #AWSCloudClubs #AWS

In case you missed it, the Android and iOS libraries for the AppSync Events API released a few weeks back! 🎉 I've written a detailed tutorial showing you how to build real-time multiplayer Android apps with this new tool ⚡ Drop your thoughts after checking it out! 👇 dev.to/aws/building...

heading to zurich in september for ZurichJS meetup! super stoked to meet the swiss js community there's something special about connecting with devs who genuinely love what they do. anyone else going? would love to connect! meetup.com/zurich-js/events/310278642/ #ZurichJS #javascript

Blown away by your response to Kiro. 100k+ joined our preview in week one, more than we expected. We've added a waitlist. To those waiting – thank you for your patience. Using Kiro? Your feedback means everything. Read the full update on our blog: bit.ly/4o31OHE

After an awesome night yesterday now heading to WeAreDevelopers conference to meet the developers and talk to them about Developer Tools and Amazon Bedrock. Guess which booth should you stop by to meet me 🤣 See you all there 🙌

Join us today at the Berlin AWS User Group meetup for exciting technical sessions, arcade games, delicious food, and a vibrant atmosphere before the #WeAreDevelopers conference! P.S. Don't miss my talk focusing on Building Games - it's going to be interesting! Register here: lu.ma/gi7vne7r

Finally booked the vacation for me and my family. It is going to be the first one in 2 years and I can’t wait for it to happen 🙌

🔥 Just dropped a deep-dive on building MCP servers with Dart for the Flame Engine! You will learn how to build MCP server both with AI assistance AND manually with full explanations. Perfect for Flutter game devs who want AI that actually understands Flame and more! 🎮 Full blog: bit.ly/4nwVtUM

I had a great time at Flutter Munich meetup talking about Amazon Q on IDE and CLI. Now heading back to Berlin because tonight, we have the Flutter Berlin Meetup and in case you want to see the talk, it is your chance to join us 👇👇 www.meetup.com/flutter-berl...

2 weeks to go! Don’t miss #AWSSummit Hamburg on 5 June 🚨😲 Get ready to discover the latest news in cloud tech & transform your #AWS skills with the experts. Register now to save your spot! 👉 aws.amazon.com/events/summi...

🎯 Exciting news: My article on Dart backend deployments on AWS is live! If you want to learn about how you can use AI to deploy your backends on AWS ☁️, read the full article here: dev.to/salihgueler/... #dart #Flutter #AWS #cloud #AI

Back in business after a week-long break! 🧑‍💻 After a much-needed break, I flew to Seattle to meet some of my teammates. :) 🇺🇸 While battling jet lag, I decided to start writing about a topic I've been thinking about for a long time—so stay tuned! :) #dart #backend #aws #serverpod #shelf

AWS Summit Amsterdam was a blast! 🚀 Had a great session with Martijn van Dongen on migrating the Community Day NL site to a multi-tenant app. Loved the energy at the community booth with awesome folks like @094459.bsky.social & @gunnargrosch.com and Thembile. Now off to 🇹🇷 for the Community Day!

Catching an early flight to Amsterdam 🇳🇱 for #AWSSummit to talk with Martijn van Dongen tomorrow 🙌🙌 Next, I will fly back home 🇩🇪 for a night to give a talk at Kotlin UG in Berlin on Kotlin and AI Assisted Programming with Amazon Q 🤖 Next I will fly to Istanbul 🇹🇷 for the AWS Community Day Türkiye 🕺.

Last week has been quite busy for me. Let's do a recap! 💻💼📱 First I flew to Paris to meet great folks from Flutter and React Native communities. I gave a talk at Flutter Connection about full-stack Dart and how power of AI can help us through the deployment processes. 🤖🚀🇫🇷

Next Wednesday, I will be at Frankfurt for the AWS User Group Frankfurt meetup :) I am excited to meet thhe community there! Let me know if you are around and want to meet for a coffee there :) Register here, the seats are limited 🔗 www.meetup.com/fra_aws/even...

Tomorrow at 14:00 CET, I will do an online talk for the BRAC University in Bangladesh. As this is an online event, you can sign up and join to learn about building a cloud connected React Native application :) www.meetup.com/aws-cloud-cl...

Going back to Athens for the first time after 10 years! Excited to meet the community there and also Athens in May is definitely worth to visit :) If you are there, join me at @cityjsconf.bsky.social Athens. It will be fun! 🥳

Exciting news for university students! The new cohort applications for AWS Cloud Clubs are now open. If you're excited to engage with your university communities, fill out the application form below to get a chance to start your AWS community adventure. Application Form: pulse.aws/application/...

Soooo. Back in Paris again for one of my favorite conferences in April! Again with a new talk. This time we will talk about becoming a full-stack developer as Flutter developer :)

1 minute peek into my simple workflow for creating video game sprites with Amazon Nova Canvas. I love how generative AI gives you the power to turn your ideas into a real prototype in minutes

Building your iOS CI CD chain in the cloud just got easier. AWS CodeBuild comes with Fastlane preinstalled. No more struggling with Ruby dependencies :-) Read my post & learn how to configure code signing. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/codebuild-for-macos-adds-support-for-fastlane/

Companies have many trainings that employees have to do. I wish they added one more training about Slack and just teach people about not using "here" or "channel" for their trivial day-to-day questions.

This Thursday, I will be in Dresden discussing one of my favorite topics alongside a fantastic sample app. Feel free to reach out if you're in the area; you can locate me at the venue or catch me at the AWS booth!

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I will be at Zurich for the re:Cap meetup for the AWS UG Zurich! 🇨🇭 If you are in the area and want to meet, you can sign for the event below. I will bring special edition Amplify AI stickers with me, so do not hesitate to find me 😎 www.meetup.com/aws-swiss-us...

Yesterday, I had my second talk of the year internally to over 100 people. I love doing public talks and meeting the community but I believe internal talks are really important to get to know your peers and actually collect their feedback as they are our first users :)

Dün güzel bir etkinlik ile 2025 sezonunu açtık. Bir çok konsepti anlatıp, sıfırdan bir uygulama geliştirip, başka bir uygulamanın da kaynak kodlarını inceledik. Güzel bir akşam oldu, organize eden, yorumları ve soruları ile katılan herkese teşekkür ederim :)

Yaklaşık bir saat sonra senenin ilk konuşması ile sezonu açacağız. Slaytları bile kendimce Türkçe'ye çevirdim. Gelin beraber AWS konuşalım, biraz da kod yazalım. Sorularınızı da cevaplayıp sohbet ederiz. Linkten kayıt yaptırıp katılmayı unutmayın :) kommunity.com/eticaret/eve...

🚀 Just put together an AWS DevRel Starter Pack! Whether you're launching your first app or scaling globally, we created this Starter Pack to help you stay up to date with news, tools, resources and demos from the AWS Developer Experience team. Follow along and start building! go.bsky.app/BhHKSNE

Happy Monday everyone, busy week is ahead with a lot to do! But today is my favorite because I got to build another cool app to use in my talks. 🎉🎉

Reflecting back one of the coolest thing that I worked on: #30DaysOfAmplify. I want to thank Amandeep @avinashdalvi.bsky.social @zachjonesnoel.bsky.social, Vivek, Vishal, Srushit and our amazing speakers! You can find a summary of the event here: dev.to/aws-builders...

I was checking out some numbers from last year and I just realized I did "33 talks" last year. This doesn't include all the other work that I did such as livestreams, videos, sample apps, releases and testing and blog posts. A nice challenge is waiting for me in 2025 🫳🎤