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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

It's not the same as sam sync, which skips CloudFormation for code only pushes. Express speeds up the actual deploy: new resources + config changes. For production where "done" must mean "ready for traffic", stick with standard.

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 07/07/2026

It returns as soon as resource config is applied instead of waiting for every resource to fully stabilize. Same deploy, you just don't block on it. Dependencies are still respected, transient failures still retry. Great for dev/test iteration.

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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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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

It was a stray Ukrainian drone jammed by the Russians that was heading towards the city. Nothing came of it but that’s quite a message to see!

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 21/05/2026

The Lithuanian Armed Forces report: “PROBABLE AIR DANGER. Stay calm, find a safe place. If you notice a flying/fallen suspicious object, call 112 and do not approach it. We will inform you about the end of the danger in a separate message.” More information: www.lt72.lt

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 21/05/2026

But also realising I’m closer to the bad war stuff. There was an emergency alert sent out to all mobiles in Lithuanian. I didn’t know what it was until someone sent me a translation!

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 21/05/2026

Loving being in Lithuania! Beautiful Vilnius! Here for DevDaysEurope.

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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 · 01/04/2026

Day 30/30 Serverless Best Practices: GenAI is just another serverless workload. Protect endpoints. Handle quotas. Think async. Optimise costs. Bedrock=serverless. Your serverless skills transfer directly. 🤖 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 31/03/2026

Day 29/30 Serverless Best Practices: Right-sizing: -75%. Filtering: -92%. Express workflows: -33%. Every architecture decision is a cost decision — these numbers are from one real workload. 💵 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 30/03/2026

Day 28/30 Serverless Best Practices: Smart logging. CloudWatch Logs costs scale with volume. Dev~30d. Staging~90d. Prod~3-6m. Smart retention, don't log massive payloads,archival to S3 can cut your bill by 75%. 🗂️ 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 29/03/2026

Day 27/30 Serverless Best Practices: One log write → CloudWatch Logs + Metrics. CloudWatch EMF = 2 for 1 in a single structured entry=no extra code, no extra cost, business context included. Lambda Powertools makes this super easy.📈 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 28/03/2026

It’s actually all the same video with links to the different parts.

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 28/03/2026

Day 26/30 Serverless Best Practices: Don't log errors. Log which customer, which order, which store. Context is everything, "something failed" is useless, "order #4521 failed at checkout" is actionable. 🔍 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 27/03/2026

Day 25/30 Serverless Best Practices: Retry logic as config (Step Functions) or code (Durable Functions). Either way, don't skip it, unhandled failures in distributed systems compound fast. 🔄 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 26/03/2026

Day 24/30 Serverless Best Practices: SQS DLQ ≠ Lambda on-failure destination. One catches processing failures, the other catches invocation failures. You need both, they're not interchangeable. 🛡️ 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 25/03/2026

Day 23/30 Serverless Best Practices: Retries will happen. Idempotency is non-negotiable. Without it, a single retry can charge a customer twice or place a duplicate order. 🔁 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 24/03/2026

Day 22/30 Serverless Best Practices: Provisioned Concurrency = zero cold start. Use it for predictable, latency-critical traffic, then automate scaling so you only pay for what you need. ⏱️ 🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?... #Serverless30Days #Serverless

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)

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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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