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@julianwood.com
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Head often in the clouds, hopefully grounded in reality. Helping people love
#serverless
@AWSCloud.
Merry Christmas all! Enjoy the time with people you love. 🎄
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Jesse Thorn
9 days ago
Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that.
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305?utm_source=postup_jn&utm_campaign=jamanetworkopen&utm_content=most-viewed-2025&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwZnRzaAO3mR1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeNREsTOaFVQrolnx3RLB9OKW8Lfnma35n71FfddFF0gS1a6ivytcwWdxd8C4_aem_c4MufRM4BpgAzRfhnE4TxA
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Danilo Poccia
16 days ago
Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵
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Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle
After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...
https://dev.to/aws/exploring-the-openai-compatible-apis-in-amazon-bedrock-a-cli-journey-through-project-mantle-2114
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GOTO Conferences
17 days ago
@julianwood.com
& Olaf Molenveld dive into modern CI/CD challenges: pipeline optimization, platform teams, AI-powered DevOps, and why your deployment factory needs as much care as your code. Watch now!
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CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/417 Olaf Molenveld - Technology Advisor at CircleCI…
https://youtu.be/5QWQioN-aXc?list=PLEx5khR4g7PJozVmHNpQTVrk1QRC7YaJu
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This will be great!
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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Josh Sternberg
20 days ago
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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James Eastham
20 days ago
New course alert 🎉 It's taken me over 2 years of creating courses to finally go back to my roots. Want to learn how to build .NET apps on #AWS? This is the course for you. In it, you'll learn about the core services you need to care about to build on AWS. #dotnet
dometrain.com/course/getti...
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Michael Gasch
25 days ago
Wow! 3k views in just one day - couldn’t be more happy with
@edjgeek.bsky.social
and my first deep dive on AWS Lambda durable functions at
#reinvent2025
youtu.be/XJ80NBOwsow?...
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AWS re:Invent 2025 - [NEW LAUNCH] Deep Dive on AWS Lambda durable functions (CNS380)
YouTube video by AWS Events
https://youtu.be/XJ80NBOwsow?si=EG0PHWftnJWiMDzY
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Back from reinvent and reflecting on an awesome time connecting with so many people. Thanks to everyone who came and connected, watched sessions, asked questions, had opinions, enjoyed learning. An inspiring week for developers.
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Loved talking about Best Practices for Serverless Developers at re:Invent!
29 days ago
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Eric Johnson
about 1 month ago
Hey
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developers I hope to see you at
@awscloudconcept.bsky.social
re:Invent next week. If you are doing the "Road to re:Invent hackathon" (
s12d.com/rtri
), buckle up, I'll be one of your hosts! If you love serverless, find
@julianwood.com
or myself to get one of these!
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We made the announcement, now come and join Archana Srikanta and me as we dive into the details of Lambda Managed Instances in our session CNS382 on Thursday afternoon. The event is now available in the session catalog, so register now!
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#serverless
#reinvent
#awslambda
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Danilo Poccia
about 1 month ago
FYI – We’re rounding up the most exciting and impactful announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 here:
ift.tt/I40LBk8
#AWS
#News
#AWSreInvent
#reInvent
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Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 | Amazon Web Services
Discover our most impactful innovations across analytics, AI, compute, containers, security, and more throughout the conference week.
https://ift.tt/I40LBk8
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about 1 month ago
🚀 AWS just announced Lambda Managed Instances, a new capability that lets you run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 compute while preserving the
#serverless
programming and operational models. Effectively, run AWS Lambda functions on EC2 instances of your choice in your own account!
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Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | Amazon Web Services
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all…
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-lambda-managed-instances-serverless-simplicity-with-ec2-flexibility/
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🚀 🆕 The AWS Lambda roadmap is now open and on GitHub! See what we're working on, researching, and planning. Provide feedback, collaborate on ideas!
s12d.com/lambda-roadmap
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GitHub - aws/aws-lambda-roadmap
Contribute to aws/aws-lambda-roadmap development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://s12d.com/lambda-roadmap
about 1 month ago
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🚀 🆕 The AWS Lambda roadmap is now open and on GitHub! See what we're working on, researching, and planning. Provide feedback, collaborate on ideas!
s12d.com/lambda-roadmap
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GitHub - aws/aws-lambda-roadmap
Contribute to aws/aws-lambda-roadmap development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://s12d.com/lambda-roadmap
about 1 month ago
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Eric Johnson
about 1 month ago
Another fun pre:Invent release. This has been a highly requested feature, it's finally out! Amazon API Gateway Portals!
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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Improve API discoverability with the new Amazon API Gateway Portal | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we will show how you can use the new portal feature to create customizable portals with enhanced security features in minutes, with APIs from multiple accounts, without managing any infr...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/improve-api-discoverability-with-the-new-amazon-api-gateway-portal/
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Seb in the cloud ☁️
about 1 month ago
The Lambda Runtime for Swift now supports tenant isolation mode. Release notes :
github.com/awslabs/s...
Example :
github.com/awslabs/s...
#swiftlang
#lambda
#serverless
#cloud
#aws
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GOTO Conferences
about 1 month ago
@julianwood.com
talks with
@holdenkarau.com
about turning a decade of Apache Spark expertise into an AI tool that fights insurance denials.
fighthealthinsurance.com
is live and free. The business model? Step one ✅ Step two ❓ Step three: profit 🤷
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From Apache Spark to Fighting Health Insurance Denials • Holden Karau & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/410 Holden Karau - Co-Founder at Fight Health…
https://youtu.be/qNO8U3-ZzCk?list=PLEx5khR4g7PJozVmHNpQTVrk1QRC7YaJu
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Seb in the cloud ☁️
about 1 month ago
Kiro is now generally available. Stop the vibe and start spec-driven development :-)
kiro.dev/blog/genera...
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Luc van Donkersgoed
about 2 months ago
AWS Lambda provisioned mode for SQS is here! Same principle as provisioned mode for Kafka, but 20x (!) cheaper - making it a viable solution for high-volume, near-realtime event processing.
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AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
AWS Lambda now supports provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping, enabling 3x faster scaling and 16x higher concurrency with dedicated polling resources f...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-14-aws-lambda-enhances-event-processing-with-provisioned-mode-for-sqs-event-source-mapping
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
about 2 months ago
The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
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Seb in the cloud ☁️
about 2 months ago
Swift developers ? Deploy your Swift backend code on AWS Lambda. No server or container to manage. Automatic scaling. Sleep well at night. I was invited by
@julianwood.com
to talk about Swift on Lambda Watch it here 👇
www.youtube.com/live/RlG71WU...
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Learn how to use the open-source Swift AWS Lambda Runtime to write Lambda functions using the Swift programming language. Sebastien Stormacq joins Julian Wood to show how you can use Swift as a a safe and fast programming language in Lambda. Discover how Swift has evolved beyond its origins as a language for Apple platforms. Swift’s combination of type safety, predictable performance, and developer-friendly syntax makes it an appealing option for backend services where reliability, maintainability, and scalability matter most. We are also available to answer any of your serverless questions. Host: Julian Wood - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Serverless: https://x.com/julian_wood https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood/ Guest: Sebastien Stormacq - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienstormacq/ https://bsky.app/profile/sebsto.bsky.social Stream Links: Swift AWS Lambda Runtime: https://github.com/awslabs/swift-aws-lambda-runtime SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel SERVERLESS OFFICE HOURS Playlist: https://s12d.com/soh-youtube A weekly live office hours to learn about building serverless applications. We cover a separate topic each week, including what's new with serverless, deep dives into feature launches and best practices, and explorations of real-world usecases. Join us live to ask us anything you want about serverless technologies and applications. https://ServerlessLand.com Your resource for learning about serverless technology. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully managed serverless architecture.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RlG71WUZa7Q?si=My88kWhQIUHdOJKs
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Luc van Donkersgoed
about 2 months ago
Welcome to the AWS Heroes program Dimple, Rola, and Vivek! Hope to see you at Re:Invent!
aws-news.com/article/2025...
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Introducing Our Final AWS Heroes of 2025
AWS announces three new AWS Heroes for 2025 who are advancing cloud education, mentoring diverse communities, and pioneering enterprise AI solutions globally.
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-11-12-introducing-our-final-aws-heroes-of-2025
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🚀 📢 Want to run Swift in AWS Lambda? Fast + type safety + predictable performance + dev-friendly syntax! 📺 Join Serverless Office Hours Today with
@sebsto.bsky.social
at 11AM PT. 7PM UK, 8PM CET. AWS Events YouTube:
www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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AWS Events
The official YouTube channel for AWS Events and Webinars. Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, an...
https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel
about 2 months ago
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AI Native Dev
2 months ago
Specs are becoming the new code.
@jedi.be
just dropped his insights on spec-driven development, and it's essential reading for anyone building with AI agents. The core insight? We're shifting from telling AI how to code to describing what we want built. Read the full piece:
ainativedev.co/94af0c
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Spec-Driven Development: 10 things you need to know about specs
Discover how spec-driven development transforms AI collaboration by shifting focus from micromanagement to clear requirements.
https://ainativedev.co/94af0c
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Get the best out of observability when building serverless applications. Serverless Office Hours tomorrow 11am-12pm PT (6PM-UK/7PM-CET) with Joe Alioto and Siva Guruvareddiar +
@gunnargrosch.com
to show LOADS of recent Amazon CloudWatch functionality.
www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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AWS Events
The official YouTube channel for AWS Events and Webinars. Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate,…
https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel
2 months ago
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Seb in the cloud ☁️
2 months ago
🎙️ AWS Developers Podcast: Dive into Amazon Bedrock Agent Core Identity with @Abram Douglas. Learn how to manage AI agent identities, OAuth flows, and token vaulting at scale. Your guide to secure AI agent deployment! (links in the thread 🧵👇)
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Lovely to be at ServerlessDays Cardiff. Always a fantastic event. A mix of public sector orgs doing some very impressive Serverless things + others. How about starting with a government Chief Engineer, Dimitris Perdikou.
2 months ago
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Workshops are one of the best ways to learn stuff. Explore yourself Today is exploring agent building as part of ServerlessDays Cardiff.
2 months ago
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James Eastham
2 months ago
@julianwood.com
showing us all the cool new tools and techniques that you need to know about as a serverless developer.
#serverless
#serverlessmilano
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Awesome observation. I hadn’t thought of that!
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2 months ago
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Nathan Peck
2 months ago
When I moved from America to New Zealand the traffic lights bothered me. They were low and positioned at the corners of the intersection. US traffic lights seemed better: suspended overhead, centered above the lanes. It wasn't until 6 months later that I realized how stupidly America-brained I was
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Seb in the cloud ☁️
2 months ago
Thinking about deploying your MCP servers on Lambda ? We talked about the benefits and design with Alexis Philippart de Foy and Tiffany Souterre Watch the video here
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Building Serverless MCP Servers on AWS Lambda | AWS Developers Podcast
Learn how to build and deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. AWS experts discuss best practices, security patterns, and real-world use cases. Catch up on the AWS Developers Podcast 👉 https://go.aws/4nYYywQ Resources: AWS MCP Servers on GitHub: https://go.aws/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ys-zQpNus
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James Eastham
2 months ago
Daniele Frasca up next talking all things multi-region serverless architecture. Love seeing real world applications of things like cell based architecture. Not relevant for everyone, but a powerful pattern to be aware of at scale.
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Always learning from
@theburningmonk.com
great info at ServerlessDays Milan today. You really should listen to what he says!
2 months ago
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Always fun to bring espresso “back” to Milan!!! 🤪 Serverlesspresso at ServerlessDays Milan!
2 months ago
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Getting ready for ServerlessDays Milan tomorrow!
2 months ago
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Ricardo Sueiras
2 months ago
My daughter is studying fashion at the amazing University of Leeds and is doing her third year project on how AI and social media are affecting our idea of ‘perfection’. If you could spare a few minutes to complete the survey it will be much appreciated. Thank you
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The Flawless Filter: How Social Media and AI Shape Our Idea of Perfection...
This short survey will help me write about how social media, AI, and digital filters influence the way we view beauty, fashion, and perfection. Growing up in a generation of social media, Snapchat fil...
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSesZm1cxvzZ9uiCNOT12hV_l_zwuUUhKmFs4raYHWA4dD4_4w/formResponse
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Android peeps. Have a Samsung tablet. Trying to connect to WiFi and Ethernet private LAN at the same time. Anyone managed to get this working? Can set info and ping in but can’t connect out??
2 months ago
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Luc van Donkersgoed
3 months ago
I swear the things AWS manages to squeeze out of their data centers should be classified as black magic. You can now create instant copies of EBS volumes with single-digit millisecond latency. Sounds simple - but this is an amazing feat of engineering.
aws-news.com/article/2025...
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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
Amazon EBS Volume Clones allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of encrypted volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call ...
https://aws-news.com/article/2025-10-14-introducing-amazon-ebs-volume-clones-create-instant-copies-of-your-ebs-volumes
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Want to catch up on the last quarter's serverless goings on? We have you covered!
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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Serverless ICYMI Q3 2025 | Amazon Web Services
Welcome to the 30th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts,…
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/serverless-icymi-q3-2025/
3 months ago
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In Berlin today at.a GenAI Serverless roadshow. Awesome to meet people and hear their questions and find the next things I need to learn.
3 months ago
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John Bull
almost 2 years ago
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
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Seb in the cloud ☁️
3 months ago
🆕 AWS Developers Podcast: Dive into MCP servers on Lambda! Learn how to build, secure & deploy AI-powered tools using MCP protocol. With special guest @aphilippartd Links in the thread 🧵👇 🎙️
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Reverse Centaurs: Super interesting post on ways of thinking about AI and ppl:
locusmag.com/feature/comm...
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Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs
Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does i…
https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/
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Luc van Donkersgoed
3 months ago
I'm ready to call it - the Pre:Invent '25 season has (un)officially started with the release of ECS Managed Instances. To keep track of the deluge of releases coming our way, I've added the Pre:Invent '25 feed to AWS News. Go take a look and subscribe with email or RSS 👉
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Porto becoming one of my favourite cities. First time here, not a work trip, not visiting family, and without kids! 😀😀
3 months ago
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Marc Brooker
3 months ago
New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore). Here's the post:
brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
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Seven Years of Firecracker - Marc's Blog
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09/18/firecracker.html
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GOTO Conferences
3 months ago
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@julianwood.com
interviews Matt Welsh on how language models are replacing traditional programming, enabling anyone to solve problems through natural language, democratizing computing globally.
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The Death of Classical Computer Science • Matt Welsh & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/398 Matt Welsh -…
https://youtu.be/Xqnv1vzB9lc?list=PLEx5khR4g7PJozVmHNpQTVrk1QRC7YaJu
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