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Julian Wood

@julianwood.com
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Head often in the clouds, hopefully grounded in reality. Helping people love #serverless @AWSCloud.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 24/09/2026
Stop what you’re doing and check this out! Enhanced AWS Event Buses support FIFO, JSONata, Avro, Protobuf, cross-account messaging! Holy broccoli, this is awesome! buff.ly/awEh4jD
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Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
AWS announces enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge with organization-wide sharing, event ordering, simplified Subscriptions, and improved…
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Olivier @olivierleplus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My Tamagotchi now gets hungry while the device is unplugged 👻 (Part 3) I am getting there! By using EventBridge, my little cloudagotchi continues to live in the cloud even if it's off ^^ Next article, it gets to read the news! builder.aws.com/content/3GZm... #AWS #Serverless #DynamoDB #IoT #ESP32
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Cloudagotchi Part 3 : It gets hungry while you sleep: A serverless pet brain | AWS Builder Center
Lambda decides, DynamoDB remembers, EventBridge Scheduler makes time pass. My ESP32 Tamagotchi finally has feelings... and consequences for ignoring it.
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Muhammed Salih Güler @salihgueler.dev · 22/07/2026
Yesterday I shared a video on how I built my personal website to be agent-friendly. Now the written version is up, in case you like it more. It covers specmd, llms.txt, and tips to make your site actually discoverable by agents. Check it out: dev.to/aws/building...
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Building an Agent Friendly Personal Website with Specs
If you visit salih.dev right now, you'll notice it redirects somewhere else. That's been bugging me...
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Olivier @olivierleplus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm building a Tamagotchi whose brain runs on AWS 👻 The body: a $30 ESP32-S3 AMOLED board The brain: Lambda + DynamoDB + EventBridge The party trick: it reads me the AWS news every morning via Bedrock + Polly Part 1: giving it a nervous system with AWS IoT Core 🧠⚡ builder.aws.com/content/3GXO...
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Meet Cloudagotchi: Building a virtual pet with a cloud brain (Part 1) | AWS Builder Center
I'm turning a $30 ESP32-S3 AMOLED board into a Tamagotchi whose brain runs on AWS. Part 1: the architecture, and getting the device talking to AWS IoT Core.
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Muhammed Salih Güler @salihgueler.dev · 21/07/2026
My domain sat unused for months because "rebuilding a website" felt like a weekend project. Yesterday I wrote specs for what I wanted, handed them to GPT 5.6 Sol with Astro, and had a working site in 60 minutes. Code and walkthrough in thread 🧵
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Olivier @olivierleplus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I built a Tamagotchi with its brain in AWS 👻 🥑 tap an avocado to feed it 😾 continues leaving while powered OFF (DynamoDB + Eventbridge), 📰 reads me the AWS news every morning (Bedrock, Polly voice, animated mouth) 1st part of article series. Meet Cloudagotchi: dev.to/aws/i-built-...
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I built a Tamagotchi with its brain in AWS (and it reads me the news)
Meet Cloudagotchi, a virtual pet on a $30 ESP32 board whose feelings live in DynamoDB, whose metabolism runs on EventBridge, and who reads me the AWS news every morning. A 4-part build series is comin...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 20/07/2026
Serverless in case you missed it Q2 2026 is out. Lambda MicroVMs, S3 Files as a local mount, durable functions in Java, 32 GB Managed Instances, and Step Functions with native agentic reasoning. Packed quarter! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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Serverless ICYMI Q2 2026 | Amazon Web Services
In this 33rd quarterly recap post, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from Q2 2026 that you might have missed. Stay current with the latest serverless innovat...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 15/07/2026
🆕 Bring your own storage for AWS Lambda! Reference deployment packages directly from your own S3 bucket. → No storage limits → Single source of truth in your account → Full visibility: your bucket/metrics/lifecycle rules Default quota also raised 75GB → 300GB. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/07/2026
And to think they try to claim that English isn't a tonal language.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 07/07/2026
Want to speed up your serverless deploy times? I cut mine by 42% with a new flag. CloudFormation Express Mode. sam deploy --express. Demo below ↓
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 06/07/2026
I'm off to Berlin this week for We Are Developers conference. I'll be talking about vibe coding the "right way" on Friday with "From Vibe Coding to Viable Code with Spec-Driven Development". +workshop/booth July 8-10, Messe Berlin. #WeAreDevelopers #AWSDevelopers
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 29/06/2026
📢🚀 Discover Lambda MicroVMs: isolated, stateful sandboxes powered by Firecracker that start near-instantly and suspend/resume with full state. Join Serverless Office Hours tomorrow. Live on YouTube/Twitch 11AM PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoE...
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Introducing AWS Lambda MicroVMs | Serverless Office Hours
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 23/06/2026
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is a whole new compute form factor within Lambda Secure VM level isolation with Firecracker, near-instant launch/resume, and direct control over environment lifecycle and state, with no infra to manage. MicroVMs can run for up to 8 hours. serverlessland.com/explore/lamb...
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Serverless Land
Your resource for learning serverless technology.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 22/06/2026
📢🚀 Discover what's new when building AI agents with Strands Agents SDK. Join Serverless Office Hours with the Strands team. Tomorrow-Tuesday: Live on YouTube/Twitch 11AM PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKG6...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 08/06/2026
📢🚀 Learn how to build production AI agents in TypeScript. Join Serverless Office Hours with @erikch.bsky.social diving into the Strands Agents SDK. Tuesday: Live on YouTube/Twitch 11AM PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWI...
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Building Agents with TypeScript | Serverless Office Hours
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 01/06/2026
📢🚀 Learn how AWS Serverless Hero @ranthebuilder.cloud ships with Claude every day and what actually moves the needle. Join Serverless Office Hours. Tuesday: Live on YouTube/Twitch 11AM PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwY...
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Building with Claude: Lessons from real projects | Serverless Office Hours
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 24/05/2026
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 25/05/2026
This is the greatest description of humanity I have ever read.
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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just read a fascinating piece on how an AWS team applied random graph theory to redesign data center networks. Started with a Slack shout-out and a "spaghetti monster" of cables. Love when theoretical math meets real-world engineering at scale.
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How AWS used random graph theory to build more efficient data centers
How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 30/05/2026
The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures
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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's here!! AWS SAM CLI now handles dynamic loops to generate resources! This and other CloudFormation language extensions are now live! I stinking LOVE this! builder.aws.com/content/3DiJ...
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Dynamic Looping Comes to AWS SAM | AWS Builder Center
AWS SAM CLI now supports CloudFormation Language Extensions, bringing Fn::ForEach, Fn::Length, Fn::ToJsonString, FindInMap with default values, and conditional deletion policies to your local developm...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20/05/2026
The zero token way of taking notes and managing todo lists.
A stack of spiral memo pads and a ball point pen lying on a desk.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 21/05/2026
Second talk I’ve seen today about how to get better results with prompts with /plan mode. Vibing your plan thinking is great but then I really suggest you formalise your specs and then build from that + steering + MCP. That’s what we do with Kiro and my results have been so much better.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 21/05/2026
Loving being in Lithuania! Beautiful Vilnius! Here for DevDaysEurope.
Vilnius. Vilnius. Vilnius.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 19/05/2026
📢🚀 How to go from a simple prompt to a working serverless app in minutes? Join Serverless Office Hours with @brianzambrano.bsky.social and @darko.rup12.net . TODAY: Live on YouTube/Twitch 11AM PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUhY...
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Building Apps with AI + MCP Servers | Serverless Office Hours
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 17/05/2026
My AI is shaming my bedtime!...."This is the complete picture. Want me to save all this and pick it up fresh when you're ready to build? It's past 1:30am."
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 04/05/2026
📢🚀 Ready to automate your Lambda runtime upgrades with a single CLI command? Join Serverless Office Hours with Dan Fox and Brian Krygsman. Tuesday: Live on YouTube/Twitch www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD1i...
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Automating AWS Lambda runtime upgrades | Serverless Office Hours
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 01/05/2026
Catch up on last quarter's serverless stuff in my ICYMI blog: How to explain serverless to @edjgeek.bsky.social mom! Lambda durable functions updates, 1 MB payloads across Lambda/SQS/EventBridge, Strands Agents SDK, and more. aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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Serverless ICYMI Q1 2026 | Amazon Web Services
Stay current with the latest serverless innovations that can improve your applications. In this 32nd quarterly recap, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from ...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 13/04/2026
📢🚀 Ready to optimize your data pipeline orchestration on AWS with Apache Airflow? Understand MWAA Provisioned and Serverless/trade-offs/vs Step Functions. | Join #Serverless Office Hours with John JacksonPM and Kamen Sharlandjiev. Tuesday:Live 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We called it prompt engineering. Then context engineering. What is going to be the next shift? dev.to/danilop/from...
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From prompt engineering to agent experience
Not long ago, the craft of working with large language models was all about the prompt. You'd...
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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
S3 Files just launched. Lambda functions can mount S3 buckets as a file system now. I built AI code review agents on it with a full SAM template. Durable function orchestrator, two Strands agents, shared S3 Files workspace. Every IaC gotcha documented. edjgeek.com/blog/s3-file...
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Lambda Just Got a File System. I Put AI Agents on It. — edjgeek
S3 Files mounts your S3 bucket as a local file system in Lambda. I built AI code review agents that share a workspace through it, orchestrated by a durable function.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 23/03/2026
📢🚀 Want to build AWS infrastructure using natural language? Learn how the AWS MCP Server combines API access + Agent best practices SOPs. | Join #Serverless Office Hours with @praneeta.bsky.social and Claudiu Popa. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 20/03/2026
Cheers Chuck!
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 20/03/2026
Now that’s a great quote from @daniloc.xyz #Monkigras
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 19/03/2026
Love coming to Monki Gras. Talks that make you think deeply about the craft of software and tech with a focus on people. #MonkiGras.
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“Skepticism is the main cornerstone of being prepared” - Laura Tacho #monkigras
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 16/03/2026
📢🚀 Unlock serverless analytics at scale. Join #Serverless Office Hours with @edjgeek.bsky.social to see how Amazon Athena powers 1B+ queries/week with zero infrastructure. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 09/03/2026
📢🚀 Can your serverless app survive failure at scale? Want battle-tested resilience patterns? Join #Serverless Office Hours with Ben Freiberg & Marco Jahn. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026
“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 03/03/2026
Day 1/30: I'm started 30 Days of Serverless Best Practices which is 30 tips from my talk - practical, battle-tested, ready to use. Starting now with the intro. 🚀 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA #Serverless30Days #Serverles -
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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 02/03/2026
📢🚀 Want to squash payment processing delays and build resilient real-time systems? | Join #Serverless Office Hours with Rajdeep Banerjee, Ramesh Mathikumar, and Brian Krygsman. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 23/02/2026
Do something, even a little bit, every day, and you progress!
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 23/02/2026
📢🚀 Learn how AI agents can automate content repurposing, from extracting quotes to creating video clips, all with serverless! | Join #Serverless Office Hours with @readysetcloud.io and @andmore.dev. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 23/01/2026
#GOTOpodcast: @holdenkarau.com & @julianwood.com talk about what it takes to work with distributed systems at scale They dig into: -> a decade of lessons from Apache Spark -> where GPU integration goes wrong -> common data-processing mistakes ..and more 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 19/01/2026
📢🚀 Building multi-tenant SaaS with AWS Lambda? New tenant isolation mode=zero cross-tenant data exposure+much simpler ops | Join #Serverless Office Hours with Anton Aleksandrov and Ayush Kulkarni. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 13/01/2026
🚀📢Want to optimize event-driven architectures with Lambda's new ESM capabilities? 3x faster auto-scaling, 200K events/sec with SQS Provisioned Mode + 90% cost savings for Kafka workloads. 📺 📺 Join Serverless Office Hours Today at 11AM PT. 7PM UK, 8PM CET. www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...
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Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) @arganoid.com · 07/01/2026
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hey, Amazon Science is on Bluesky! Welcome :) @amazon-science.bsky.social
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 05/01/2026
Spot the difference: Iraq vs. Venezuela
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