AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock. If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense. And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...

If you are going to AWS re:Invent this year, you can join this session exactly on this topic 👇🏻

When has the tech industry become so hostile to interns/new grads/early-career engineers? I post that there's finally some good news of a *few* (not many!) companies hiring interns/juniors and the response is universally negative So: what happens when we stop hiring young ppl?

Free startup idea: mobile app that makes you register your own eyeshadows and help you find make-up looks for inspiration.

One of the perks of my job is to work closely with amazing tech professionals working for these companies (AWS customers).

This will come across as super biased but I swear I'm using Amazon Q to write tests for a serverless workload (step functions) and it's amazing like water in the desert. I wish I had Q as a customer 6 years ago 😭♥️

Entrepreneurs: I wish you success with your business and public outreach. But please drop the fake podcast videos as a way to establish your personal brand online. They are cringe 💀💀💀

Remote debugging for AWS Lambda! aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/si...

I'm going to Sicily soon! So excited

Andor season 2:

Why hello there Andor Season 2

Am I the only one who didn't know that some TV shows have a weekly podcast for episodes commentary?

That moment when you finally go to the bike shop to fix your flat tyre… and it turns out the problem was just a loose valve 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

The vast majority of MCP servers today aren't actually servers 😱 They run as a child process and communicate over stdio, a bit awkward for distributed systems trying to use MCP. Backend apps can now run existing stdio MCP servers in Lambda functions with this new library: github.com/awslabs/run-...

I'll be missing the AWS Summit Amsterdam this year ❤️ I hope I'll be back next year. aws.amazon.com/events/summi...

Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone buff.ly/004Ksnw #AWS #Storage #FinOps

Booking.com's ad-tech team ✨reduced costs by 90%✨ by developing an in-house, on-demand creative overlay solution using an AWS serverless architecture! aws.amazon.com/solutions/ca...

I cannot believe we are getting Severance, The White Lotus, The Last of Us, and Andor one after another.

🚨 Want to kickstart your cloud security career for FREE? AWS is offering an exclusive opportunity you can’t miss 🧵👇 The All Builders Welcome Grant gives early-career tech pros a FULLY PAID trip to AWS re:Inforce 2025 in Philly! ✈️💼

I love driving in the Netherlands. But the Amsterdam city center? Not so much!

Thank you SZA for swinging by to talk #severance 💙💙 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hot take: promotion documents should be accessible to all employees within the company.

Explaining the ffmpeg command line interface to a friend

I missed the White Lotus' woo hoo intro song, but the new one is growing on me.

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement. Psychological safety REQUIRES: * disagreement and debate * setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them * telling people things they don't want to hear * courage, from the bottom up * humility, from the top down

Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world. As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS. It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️

This was a great read.

Super excited to share the stage with my friend @theburningmonk.com at #AWSSummit Amsterdam! 🎉 Yan is a serverless genius, and I always learn so much from him. Get ready for some serious #serverless insights in our session! See you there on April 16! go.aws/4kOzjvE

You can now initialize #serverless apps easier by directly using Serverless Land Patterns in Visual Studio Code! #serverless. Thanks Lambda team!

Interestingly, they wrote it in Go (instead of Rust). More on this here: www.reddit.com/r/javascript...

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

The last episode of severance

🚀 AWS just made event-driven development even easier! Amazon EventBridge now enhances event source discovery in the console. Here's why this matters for developers 👇🧵

✨Yesterday's ServerlessDays Manchester was a blast!🚀 💠Full house of a packed audience! 💠Fantastic venue with amazing views! 💠Excellent talks! 💠Great hospitality! 💠Generous and supportive sponsors! 💠A passionate organizing committee! @manserverless.bsky.social #AWS #Serverless #Azure #GCP #cloud

Got my early-bird ticket of DevOpsDays Amsterdam! 🎉 devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

And that's a wrap on the inaugural ServerlessDays Manchester. Thanks for the incredible support from our sponsors, our speakers and most of all everyone who attended. See you all next year 🎉👌 #SDM2025

Paul Gledhill: "Does anyone have a k8s cluster that's 100% efficient?" <seconds of silence> Someone from the audience: "It's turned off!" Little gems at @manserverless.bsky.social

The end of an era. youtu.be/MJEAcYVAh7E

I had the privilege of working with Mike last September. He is brilliant!

It's a long post, but it's Charity at her best. She explains why diversity, despite it being flawed and lagging, is an important signal for an organization's values

My new phone's wallpaper

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A good read on how DynamoDB has evolved over the past decade. DynamoDB was originally launched in 2012, and this retrospective paper was published in 2022. www.usenix.org/conference/a... Some takeaways after reading it 🧵

In this period I'm watching Severance and rewatching Fargo (TV show) and both are such a treat.

🚀 Big news for AWS users: Event-driven architectures just got a lot simpler! Meet the new Cross-Account Targets for Amazon EventBridge. Let's break it down! 🧵👇 #AWS #TechInnovation

If you want to run DeepSeek R1 on #AWS, these are two starting points: 1) Bedrock notebook steps: github.com/aws-samples/... 2) load into Sagemaker dgallitelli95.medium.com/deepseek-r1-... (thanks to @DGallitelli95). As always, consult your legal team before doing so...

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Can you slap around CloudFormation? Do you long to implement AWS optimizations at scale? (seek therapy) Do you want to work fully remote? Consider The Duckbill Group! $175K a year. Details here. (I’m hiring for multiple roles under this description) careers.duckbillgroup.com/apply/CcljKG...

I cannot believe that Challengers got zero Oscar nominations

been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!) so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE) […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]