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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 19/02/2026

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Luciano Mammino 📙 Node.js Design Patterns @loige.co · 21/03/2025

🚀 "Wait, JSONata can do WHAT with AWS Step Functions?!" If you use #AWS Step Functions (or want to), these 2 new features—JSONata + Variables—will save you time, money, and sanity. Let’s break it down ⤵️

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Had a great livestream with Michael and Ashish on direct integration with private endpoints from Step Functions. Here are a few promised resources. Show: www.youtube.com/live/LqhnA_M... reInvent: - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRgw... - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoK... repo: s12d.com/private-direct

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New private API integrations | Serverless Office Hours

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Darryl Ruggles @darryl-ruggles.cloud · 18/03/2025

Real-time push notifications can be accomplished using different approaches but using the services mentioned in the video make it quite easy. Tools like Step Functions, Eventbridge, and more are involved. (2/2)

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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

New #AWS Developers Podcast! 🎙️ With Rajesh Pandey, we explore AWS Lambda, event filtering, streaming & Kafka integration. Listen now! 🎧 developers.podcast.g... #Serverless #Lambda

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 18/03/2025

The AWS Developers Podcast is a fantastic listen for all things AWS development by @sebsto.bsky.social. Get info, insights, tips, and updates for devs of all skill levels. Here's a recent one diving deep into Lambda event sources with Rajesh Pandey developers.podcast.go-aws.com/web/episodes...

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The AWS Developers Podcast

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ok check it out, if you are interested in getting rid of those proxies when calling private APIs from Step Functions or EventBridge, I made a video -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVO5...

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Simplify Integrations with Private APIs using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Finally deleted Twitter (I refuse to use the new name) from my phone. I’d stopped paying attention in general, but was still finding my way over there once in a while. Really doesn’t seem to be any good reason to anymore though.

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Don Ross is a Canadian musical legend. He funded his last album through kickstarter and is looking to do it again, but needs help to get this one over the line. This is an awesome way to help an independent artist! Please think about backing. emails.kickstarter.com/ss/c/u001.rU...

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The new Don Ross vocal album

Don does his first all-vocal album since 2009, focusing on songs by Canadian songwriters

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

New Year’s Resolution: I will take 2 seconds to unsubscribe to crap my Gmail address (one many others confuse for their own) gets subscribed to, instead of wasting time deleting spam and being grumpy all year.

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This was super fun and a bit different. API208 Building an integration strategy for the future with Tom Soderstom (Enterprise Strategist, former CTO of NASA JPL, and 13 year AWS CAB member) and Brian Zambrano (#eda educator extraordinaire) #reinvent #integration #innovation youtu.be/CLBlmazHeIE?...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Building an integration strategy for the future (API208)

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Want to learn more about the recent #eventbridge and #stepfunctions Private API Integration launch? The presentation Uma, @embano1.mgasch.com, and I made at #reinvent is up! Lots of detail right “from the horse’s mouth”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoK...

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Expense report submitted. I am inordinately happy with myself. #reinvent

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I wonder if anyone sells collision insurance for walking the halls at #reinvent?

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Whoa, this floor is seriously messing with my senses. #reinvent

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Huge launch! EventBridge and Step Functions can now invoke APIs deployed inside your VPCs. Building on the VPC Resources over PrivateLink that also went live today. Awesome partnership with these teams to make this happen! Excited for how it will simplify modernization!

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This year, I will track my expenses as I go, so I don’t have a mess when I get back. For sure this year. I really, really mean it this time. #reinvent

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Excited to head for Vegas soon to meet with customers at #reinvent2024! It'll be an awesome week, looking forward to these sessions, connecting with many of you, and having some fun conversations!

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Run, don’t walk, to sign up for this one. If I’ve learned one thing in my time at AWS, it’s that when @marcbrooker.bsky.social talks, you want to listen!

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Lars @ljacobsson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I've just built a first stab at an instant converter between JSONPath and JSONata ASL. Still some corner cases missing, but does most of the work. lars.tools/jsonata #aws #stepfunctions

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This is a work in progress. There might be issues - especially with complex Choice state logic. Note: This tool only converts JSONPath to JSONata, not the other way around.

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Users consistently tell us that managing the flow of state data in #stepfunctions workflows is hard. We've improved over the years, but this is a game-changer. JSONata is powerful & intuitive. Variables simplify by decoupling states. Can't wait to see what you build! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

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Simplifying developer experience with variables and JSONata in AWS Step Functions | Amazon Web Services

This post is written by Uma Ramadoss, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Principal Specialist SA, Amazon Bedrock AWS Step Functions is introducing variables and JSONata data tra...

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It might not be obvious at first glance, but this is a massive improvement. #dynamodb has a learning curve, but it’s worth it. The launch of on-demand a few years ago was a game changer, but it had some sharp edges. From my perspective, this knocks off the last one! aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...

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Pre-warming Amazon DynamoDB tables with warm throughput | Amazon Web Services

We’re introducing warm throughput, a new capability that provides insight into the throughput your DynamoDB tables and indexes can instantly support and allows you to pre-warm for optimized performanc...

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Interesting. I avoided Twitter like the plague before I started working at AWS, then joined to connect with the community. 6 years on, I have an illustrious 176 followers. 3 weeks after things restarted here, I have more. Still small time for sure, but it’s an encouraging sign of growing community.

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We love to talk about new features, but it’s awesome to share work on what we call fundamentals. Enormous amount of passion and engineering innovation to drive these #eventbridge latency improvements that open up more use cases for #eventdrivenarchitectures on #aws ! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

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Amazon EventBridge announces up to 94% improvement in end-to-end latency for Event Buses - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon EventBridge announces up to 94% improvement in end-to-end latency for Event Buses

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

The Test State feature for #stepfunctions is enormously helpful. A few weeks ago, I shared with the team how I wished I could not only copy the value from a node in a test response but also the path (so I can use that in my next state). And now I can! I love the team's focus on reducing pain points!

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