Cool to see @cedardb.com will offer S3 object storage as an option for persistence cedardb.com/docs/get_sta...

yet another launcher github.com/klaatu01/yal

Some starter SQL queries I put together for trying out Iceberg tables on S3 with Athena github.com/lukehedger/i...

Just ran `bun index.ts` without installing node_modules first and amazed that it *just worked*. Then found out about auto-install. Nice feature @bun.sh! "Under Bun-style module resolution, packages are auto-installed on the fly into a global module cache during execution" bun.com/docs/runtime...

Are you using ULID or UUID v7?

What do teams actually do about code freezes around the high shopping season? The research and armchair advice says “absolutely not”. But on the ground I see lots of nervousness about releasing code for days, weeks and even months around key dates

Always wondered what a MFA token generator does when I’m not looking at it

Paxos-as-a-service would be handy! “very few customers… are going to ask Amazon for Paxos-as-a-service... AWS should return to its roots and release important building blocks — the things customers will need, not necessarily what they're asking for”

Bemused by the enthusiastic embrace of JSON-RPC by the LLM tools ecosystem.

The biggest lie in Software Engineering Undo There’s no undo Only a new Do that resembles the old state The past is immutable We just pile on a new present

Apache Iggy looks super promising. Following the trend of building streaming around an append-only log iggy.apache.org/docs/introdu...

Oldie but a goodie

I love where Zed is going to. And the vision of DeltaDB can improve a lot of the missing capabilities of Git. Some weeks ago, I shared a way we are using Git to not lose knowledge between commits. Will it be possible to do something like this in Zed? learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/extending-...

@zed.dev is building a database for linking software engineering artifacts (commits, ADRs, chats, calls) to arbitrary lines of code. It’s called DeltaDB and uses CRDTs zed.dev/blog/sequoia...

It’s quite simple really. The handler function signatures are slightly different from one cloud provider to another but it’s real easy boilerplate to handle the differences. Access to path, query parameters, body and headers are very similar. The responses are even easier.

CTOs used to not get fired for buying IBM, now they get uneasy about vendor lock-in. But is buying from vendors still a safer bet than relying on OSS for your most critical infra?

Is @nitric.io the new, cooler SST? At first glance, the API looks neater nitric.io

More on jazz’s backendless approach… super interesting! 🎷

Not heard this one before but it’s got a nice ring to it — from @jazz.tools > backendless

AGENT.md seems like a good idea

Time Flies is surprisingly absorbing. Afterwards found myself looking at a real fly and wondering what bucket list items they were getting thru

Or how about zero-server architecture?

Quite like “scale to zero” as an alternative to the term “serverless” This is from the @basetenco.bsky.social docs

void is my new best friend

Remember when io.js was forked from node.js?

Ooo yeah! 🙌 Abstraction layers and internal platforms built on top of solid foundational primitives will give you evolvable software. Although I’d advocate for vendor-specific primitives over OSS (like k8s and tf). OSS is fine as you move up the stack but you want reliability at the base

The new OpenAI open weights models are available in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart. In Bedrock, you can use them also via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. More info in my post: buff.ly/8dRMPG9 #AWS #AI #GenAI #OpenAI #OpenSource

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it. Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

Yeah, never believe the hype around any technology! Running a HA, distributed backend on Lambda will never be perfect but if you take the time to understand serverless you can reach high levels (not hyper!) of scale and rest very easy

Will read this paper purely out of respect for the title

Our Star Wars quickstart got good feedback, and now you can view the stream from the dashboard too 🫣 This comes in real handy for live debugging and observability — especially in systems built around agentic workflows, microservices, or event sourcing using @s2.dev

The two most common things you hear said about serverless: * there are still servers * it’s just FaaS That said, I’m seeing more innovation in the serverless space in 2025 than the past 3/4 years. Hopefully the balanced, informed discussions will follow!

Hot on the heels of Toad comes Crush, which looks super cool. Loving this trend of custom terminal apps for driving LLMs. Warp 2.0 also looks promising. Need to find time to try them all out! github.com/charmbracele...

Has @dagger.io become a universal durable execution platform? 🤔 docs.dagger.io/features/pro...

Hard agree on this but it’s a travesty. Often see teams build async apps around events/messaging but use CRUD for access patterns and mutable relational or nosql for persistence. This creates an unwieldy frankenstein. Event sourcing as a pattern is an optimal (but complex) model for state in an EDA

The results… I was expecting 2 and 3 to be the winners but seems there are a lot of expert event sourcerers and lots who don’t care for it at all! Thanks for voting 💖

Do you like event sourcing? 1️⃣ Expert, use it all the time 2️⃣ Part-time user, learning the ropes 3️⃣ Would like to use but don’t know where to start 4️⃣ Not interested, next question 📊 Show results

Uncloud looks super promising in this space. The power of docker without the overhead of k8s > no central control plane to maintain. Each machine maintains a synchronised copy of the cluster state through peer-to-peer communication 🆒 uncloud.run

Sorry to see that winglang shutdown

Does something like fully-managed event sourcing exist? I’m expecting: * Event ingestion API * Command/trigger API * Event store * Snapshotting * Domain data models defined in code * Aggregate generation * State machine event handlers * Event/CDC stream and broadcast Drop it in and it “just works”

Turns out hackers don’t test their code… > AWS Security has inspected the code and determined the malicious code was distributed with the extension but was unsuccessful in executing due to a syntax error aws.amazon.com/security/sec...

Sums it up really open.spotify.com/episode/4L0U...

Continuous improvement of your coding assistant! Neat tip from @anthropic.com www.anthropic.com/news/how-ant...

Started using @zotero.org for syncing my growing collection of whitepapers between phone and laptop and it’s a dream! Good for keeping track of the papers we’ve read and need to read for our work whitepaper club too

Just came across this resource on Agentic Engineering from my favourite IDE @zed.dev. Actually found it via news of the “disable all AI” flag which shows they have a well-balanced approach to coding assistants. Refreshing to read something that cuts thru the hype and the FUD! zed.dev/agentic-engi...

Yep, he did

Toad will be an open-source alternative to Claude Code - looks really smooth already! > built across two afternoons in a nerdy caffeinated rage while listening to metal music Ooo yeah baby 🤘 willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-t...

Is this a legit salary!? Insane. job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...