Part 27 of DEV Track Spotlight 🤖 Together with @readysetcloud.io, I demonstrated how to build production-ready multi-agent AI systems at AWS re:Invent (DEV415). The key? Treat agents like distributed systems with A2A protocol, MCP for typed interfaces, and RISEN prompts for deterministic behavior.

I'm still shocked this worked as well as it did 🤯

Serverless Picks of the Week #143! Our serverless superhero is @dthompsondev.bsky.social, Director of Technology at This Dot and tremendous community advocate. Danny's ability to enable, inspire, and educate people is unrivaled💙. Thank you for everything, Danny! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

Is it, though?

What have I done to make this an article that Google thinks I would want to read?!? How do I undo this??

There's something both satisfying and annoying about using the last bag in a roll of trash bags 🤔

Of all the things that are surprisingly difficult, getting a tiny piece of shell out of a bowl of raw eggs reigns supreme 😠

WebSockets are hard. Fortunately, AppSync events made them easy... kinda. There's a lot to real-time communication, and I'm all for higher and higher levels of abstraction. But as good as AppSync events is, I think we could have used a bit more 🌱 www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.h...

Serverless Picks of the Week #142! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is Philipp Krenn, DA and community lead at Elastic! Philipp really understands the hard part of serverless data, and does a🔥job explaining it to others. Thank you for everything you do, Philipp 💙! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/142

Found in the family room at the current hospital we're at. I'm not crying, you're crying!

This is how my morning started out 😑

I'm kinda mad at myself that I haven't been using code-based diagramming tools like Mermaid for years. I always lose the original diagram and have to redraw it from scratch to make updates. But not with a code-based approach 🔥

It might look like I was a lot more enthusiastic about taking this picture, but I assure you the feelings were mutual 🤣💙

When building APIs, success messages are equally as important as error messages. This morning I said "𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨" and the response I got was simply "𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵." 😑 Was my rating saved? Was any action performed at all? When you're interacting with a human, you need more than a 200 OK.

Serverless Picks of the Week #141! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is @marcbrooker.bsky.social, VP/distinguished engineer at AWS! Marc has directly helped shape the serverless world as we know it in multiple ways. Thank you for everything you do, Marc! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

re:Invent was absolutely incredible but beyond all things, it was unexpected. I shared my thoughts on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/allenh...

Omg did that just happen

Come find @readysetcloud.io and I at booth 1870 and say hi! Also grab awesome momento and @believeinsls.bsky.social stickers and swag 🔥

Found some rando's walking through the hall @ajs.bsky.social

Serverless Picks of the Week #140! Our serverless🦸‍♂️ is Dave Hall, AWS training lead at Pfizer and AWS Community Builder. Dave is a wonderful resource for anything cloud related and a friendly face always willing to help. Thank you for everything, Dave! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/140

I'm so proud with how far this community has come in a year. WE HAVE AWARDS!!! 💙💙💙 By the way, we are 13 away from 1000 members on Discord, will you be the one that puts us over the top? believeinserverless.com/community

This bathroom's GitHub contribution history is impressive

PSA: Don't give your friends edit permission to your slides 🤣

Here's a shot from my Thanksgiving day pardon yesterday. Everybody came out to watch 🐐🐓🦃🪿

As I loaded 300lbs of chicken feed into my Jeep, I was quickly reminded it was leg day this morning 🫠🫠🫠

I'm predicting that 2025 will have a lot of predictive AI pop up and I'm not sure I like the low key influence I'm about to be hammered with 😬

I'm looking for brainstorming partners to come up with a cool idea that tries out as many new re:Invent announcements as possible

I'm really looking forward to this today 😀

I'm going to be speaking at re:Invent Believe in Serverless has community talks with some amazing speakers. Tycko Franklin, @readysetcloud.io, Dave Hall, @focusotter.bsky.social , Khawaja Shams, Greg Olmstead, @ryancormack.bsky.social , @brianleroux.bsky.social and @andmoredev.bsky.social

Next Tuesday at re:Invent I'll be ranting about real-time communications and give my honest opinion on AppSync Events 😬 If you're a fan of quick-witted, brutally honest, and highly-opinionated chats, don't miss it the the AWS Community Lounge 🔥 Register here - remeet.tech/bis/allen-he...

They say the hallway track is always the best at re:Invent. We made it a little more structured this year 😍🤩

Serverless Picks of the Week #139 is here! Our serverless superhero is Suzana Melo Moraes, AWS Community Builder, UG leader, and full-stack dev. Suzana is a 🔥 speaker, covering a range of important development areas. Thank you for everything you do, Suzana! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

As an avid user of Step Functions, I'm so happy to see variables and JSONata support finally available! While this doesn't unlock a ton of new possibilities, it does simplify the complexity of state machines. Love this ❤️🔥 aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

Join us on Discord to hear about what the @believeinsls.bsky.social community has planned for re:Invent! This is a town hall event, so everyone is welcome to chime in with ideas and excitement! believeinserverless.com/community

Can you tell it's almost Thanksgiving?

Found a tricky issue yesterday with adding custom metrics with Lambda Powertools. If you're adding multiple metrics with different dimensions, be sure to call the `publishStoredMetrics` function before changing dimensions! Otherwise the last one wins.

Does anyone else feel the huge shift in attitude towards AWS with the great releases over the past week? I have good feelings about re:Invent 🔥

One of the fun unexpected side effects of my job and involvement with the tech community is the willingness of my wife to take pictures of me without getting a side eye or (audible) judgment. For example, today I said "can you help me look pregnant for a social promo?" 5 mins later...

Ever since we started raising a sustainable meat chicken flock alongside our egg chickens (totally a thing, look it up) every morning sounds like a rooster symphony and it cracks me up 😂

I made an automatic RSS feed with @andmoredev.bsky.social for the Believe in Serverless community a couple months ago that shares tech links from Discord. I'm thinking about updating that project to share links here on a community account to get my feet wet with the Bluesky API. Good idea?

As I'm working on my AppSync Events // Momento Topics benchmark, I'm learning how much goes into accurate benchmarking. Kudos to those of you who regularly do it, there's a lot more to this than I thought!