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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 21/09/2026

Credit to @edjgeek.bsky.social: rDev gave Bivack its per-user AWS Lambda MicroVM, browser-terminal, persistent-home foundation. I added a VS Code workbench, selectable tools, and a cheap NAT-instance option. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3Jbk...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 28/08/2026

In case you missed it: Episode 2 of Yells at Cloud is out. AI agents, AWS capacity limits, Amazon’s gas-powered Texas data center, Twitch scraping content, and CloudFormation Express Mode. The Slow Collapse of Civilization: yellsatcloudpod.com/episodes/ep-2

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 28/08/2026

Got some new M5Stack toys this morning. Let's see what we can build out of these!

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 24/07/2026

Before you write a line of application code, the Sinch CLI can rent you a number, make a live call, send a message, and stream webhook logs from a local tunnel. New post walking through all of it. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3Gx8...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 16/07/2026

Amazing event with the user group in Frankfurt! Can't go wrong with rooftop BBQ! So much fun catching up with friends new and old in the tech community. Thanks to Stefan Bauer and Manuel Vogel for organizing, to codecentric AG for hosting, and to everyone who listened to me rant. ❤️

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 07/07/2026

Annoyed at the giant sub navigation bar taking up a large portion of the screen on the AWS webpage? I've got you covered! Install this Tampermonkey script to have it automatically hide on page load. gist.githubusercontent.com/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 07/06/2026

Order confirmed. Alarm fired. Job finished. These are moments where SMS works best. Immediate, no app required, no filter. This post shows how to send SMS from Lambda using the official Sinch SDKs. Builder Center: builder.aws.com/content/3Eoz... DEV Community: dev.to/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 04/06/2026

Great evening in Athens! I talked about building conversational agents in code with AWS Lambda Durable Functions and the Sinch Conversation API. Thanks to Epignosis for hosting and the local AWS user group for organizing. #AWS #Serverless #AI #Sinch

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 03/06/2026

Talked at AWS User Group Vienna last night about building conversational agents in code using Lambda Durable Functions and Sinch. Two live SMS demos: single-agent booking flow and a multi-agent coordinator. Really fun crowd.

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 01/06/2026

Sending SMS is easy. Two-way conversations are more interesting. New post: webhook + two queues + three Lambda functions = a full SMS conversation loop on AWS. TypeScript and Python. DEV Community: dev.to/gunnargrosch... AWS Builder Center: builder.aws.com/content/3EY5... #AWS #Serverless #SMS

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 29/05/2026

You sent an SMS. Did it arrive? Know whether your messages landed. Lambda Function URL + HMAC validation + Sinch Conversation API webhooks. TypeScript and Python. dev.to/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 26/05/2026

Speaking at AWS User Group Athens on June 4: Building conversational AI agents with Lambda Durable Functions and the Sinch Conversation API. Sequential code, human-in-the-loop callbacks, no Step Functions glue. RSVP: www.meetup.com/aws-user-gro...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 23/05/2026

Hallo Wien! 🇦🇹 Excited to head to Vienna for the next AWS User Group meetup! I'm speaking on Building Conversational Agents in Code with AWS Lambda Durable Functions, orchestrating Amazon Bedrock agents using Sinch for inbound/outbound chat. RSVP: www.meetup.com/amazon-web-s...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 09/05/2026

It was awesome to once again represent Sinch on stage! Great job by the organizing team and thanks for inviting me! Big thanks to all the speakers and the 400+ attendees at the event. You are all now my friends! Shout out to my fellow Heroes as well!

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 09/05/2026

Amazing day at AWS Community Day Türkiye in Istanbul! Lots of great sessions, questions, and conversations with the vibrant Istanbul community. My keynote about the engineering mindset in the age of AI seemed to resonate well with many in the audience! #aws #awscommunity

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 07/05/2026

Such a fun event with the AWS Community in the Nordics coming together in Stockholm for the yearly pre-Summit meetup! I talked about the importance of community and shared about my personal journey. Keep showing up!

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 05/05/2026

Awesome event with Gothenburg Serverless tonight! Thanks to everyone who showed up and engaged! Lots of great conversations! A big thank you to the amazing speakers and to Cloud Enablers for hosting! Next event is yet to be scheduled. If you want to host, just let us know.

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 27/04/2026

Starting today as the first Developer Advocate at Sinch. 700B+ texts and emails yearly. 100B+ calls. 160M+ active phone numbers. APIs for SMS, voice, WhatsApp, email, RCS, verification. If you've built with Sinch, I want to hear from you. What tripped you up? What's missing? DMs open.

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 12/04/2026

Great day at AWS Community Day Bay Area Security Edition on Friday! Always great catching up with the Bay Area community and to hang out with fellow Heroes! My session on the security risks with MCP was hopefully an eye opener for many. Looking forward to the next one!

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 08/04/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday's Gothenburg Serverless meetup and to Knightec Group for hosting! Next meetup on May 5 hosted by our friends at Cloud Enablers! Sign up to the group for notifications: www.meetup.com/gothenburg-s... #serverless #gothenburg

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 27/03/2026

New tool: durable-viz turns AWS Lambda durable function handlers into flowcharts using static analysis. No deployment, no credentials. TypeScript, Python, Java. CLI or VS Code extension. npx durable-viz handler.ts --open github.com/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 25/03/2026

context.invoke() unlocks a pattern: one Lambda coordinator dispatching specialist agents as separate functions. Every call checkpointed, coordinator suspended while specialists run. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3BRI...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 20/03/2026

Gothenburg Serverless is back! Join us at Knightec in Lindholmen on April 7: - Spec-Driven Development for Serverless (Isak Holmdahl, Knightec) - Long-Running Serverless Workflows as Sequential Code (me) Food and drinks from 17:30. Space is limited: www.meetup.com/gothenburg-s...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 17/03/2026

Lambda Durable Functions: sequential code, checkpointed state, up to a year of execution. Zero compute during waits. Wrote about checkpoint/replay and built an AI support triage workflow with human-in-the-loop callbacks. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3B5i...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 12/03/2026

Does your circuit breaker trip when it should? Do your retries back off or hammer a dead endpoint? failure-lambda 1.0: inject real failure conditions into any Lambda function to find out. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3Aqx... #aws #serverless #chaosengineering

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 11/03/2026

DOOM runs on everything. Now AI coding assistants join the list. doom-mcp: an MCP server that lets Claude Code, Kiro, or Cursor play the actual DOOM engine. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3AmP...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 10/03/2026

I'll be in Amsterdam during KubeCon Europe week (March 23-26). Exploring what's next after 5+ years in DevRel at AWS. No ticket yet (hint hint), but around all week. Want to grab coffee and talk cloud native, AI, or dev experience? DM me! #KubeConEU #CloudNative

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 09/03/2026

In-memory circuit breakers are silently useless on Lambda. Each environment tracks failures independently. With 50 concurrent environments and threshold 5, you need 250 failures before any circuit opens. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3Aj5...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 05/03/2026

New post: Multi-agent systems with RISEN prompts. The routing logic lives in the coordinator Steps section, not in code. Agents as tools, hooks for observability, routing eval with stubs. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3AXe...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 03/03/2026

New post: Lightweight evals for AI agent output quality. Structural checks, LLM-as-judge, calibration loop. RISEN prompts double as your eval spec. Runnable demo with two domains. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3ARU...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 01/03/2026

New post: RISEN (Role, Instructions, Steps, Expectation, Narrowing) turns vague system prompts into behavioral contracts for AI agents. Three scenarios with a runnable demo, including one with MCP tools. builder.aws.com/content/2cwk... dev.to/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 26/02/2026

After over five years at AWS, I'm part of the February layoffs. I've spent that time close to practitioners and the community, and that's what I'm looking for in what's next. Developer advocacy, DevRel, or community building. Longer post here: www.linkedin.com/posts/gunnar...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 25/02/2026

New post: Streaming Bedrock Responses Through API Gateway and Lambda ~500ms to first token instead of 8-10s. A side-by-side demo with the code and config to make it work. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3A9e...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 23/02/2026

New post: Building AI Agents in TypeScript with the Strands Agents SDK TypeScript support is in preview. A quick look at getting started: five examples from minimal agent to multi-tool orchestration. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3A55...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 22/02/2026

New post: Building the AWS Serverless Power for Kiro Built a Kiro Power with 25 MCP tools and ten steering guides for AWS serverless. Same expertise, different packaging. dev.to/gunnargrosch... builder.aws.com/content/3A1s...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 21/02/2026

New post: Turning AWS Serverless Experience into a Claude Code Plugin Encoded serverless expertise into skill guides so Claude makes the judgment calls that come from experience, not just documentation. builder.aws.com/content/39yk... dev.to/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 20/02/2026

New post: Extending Claude Code with Plugins and Skills for AWS Development Teach Claude your deployment process and security checks once. Skills are markdown files that replace repeated explanations. Plugins package them for your team. builder.aws.com/content/39vd... dev.to/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 19/02/2026

New post: Improving Your AWS Development Workflow on Claude Code with MCP Servers Seven MCP servers for AWS development. Query CloudWatch, design DynamoDB schemas, automate browser testing, and more. builder.aws.com/content/39tZ... dev.to/gunnargrosch...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 18/02/2026

New post: Automating Your Workflow with Claude Code Hooks CLAUDE.md is the style guide. Hooks are the linter. 10 practical examples you can use right away. builder.aws.com/content/39qV... dev.to/aws/automati...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 17/02/2026

CLAUDE.md teaches Claude Code your conventions. Write them once, remembered every session. New post: templates, modular rules, and the pitfalls that waste your context window. dev.to/aws/teaching... builder.aws.com/content/39nt...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 16/02/2026

New guide: Claude Code with Bedrock in VS Code and JetBrains Get inline diffs and visual code review in your IDE while keeping code in AWS. Covers VS Code authentication (the tricky part) and JetBrains setup. builder.aws.com/content/39i6... dev.to/aws/from-ter...

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 15/02/2026

Claude Code is all the rage! Did you know you can run it with Amazon Bedrock for enterprise security and governance? Quick guide covering setup, auth, model config, and cost optimization 👇 builder.aws.com/content/39gP... #AWS #AmazonBedrock #ClaudeCode

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 12/02/2026

Awesome event with Gothenburg Serverless hosted by our friends at Elva! Julian and I spent three hours walking through and showing demos of everything new with serverless and agentic AI! Thanks to everyone who joined! I love the serverless community! ❤️

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 11/02/2026

Great to be back at Stockholm Serverless meetup! Julian and I had a lot of fun talking about everything new with serverless and agentic AI! And there was definitely a lot to cover! We could without a doubt have gone on for a few more hours. Thanks to everyone who joined! I love this community! ❤️

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 10/02/2026

Such a fun event in Helsinki with AWS User Group Finland! One of the attendees described what I did as "lively" and I guess that sums it up quite well! As always, these events are all about the community and the people. I'm leaving Helsinki with a full heart. I love you all! ❤️

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 16/01/2026

Happy Friday, everyone! We're celebrating with proper Italian kebab pizza and proper Italian pineapple pizza! 🍕

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 05/01/2026

🎯 DEV Track Spotlight: Breakout Sessions & Code Talks from AWS re:Invent 2025 I've covered 27 incredible sessions featuring AWS Heroes and speakers from AWS. From multi-agent AI systems to serverless, Rust performance to legacy modernization. #AWSreInvent #DEVTrack #AWSCommunity #AWSHeroes

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 04/01/2026

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.

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Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com · 03/01/2026

Part 26 of DEV Track Spotlight 🚀 Shridhar Pandey (AWS) and I built a complete serverless image generation app - backend, frontend, observability - using Kiro CLI. Session: Serverless Full-Stack in Action: AI-Driven Developer Experience #AWSreInvent #DEVTrack #AWSCommunity

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