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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 15h

If you really want to see me at re:Invent, here's the date & time where I definately will be Wednesday, Dec 2 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PST Ceasars Forum #awsreinvent #publicspeaking #eks #internaldeveloperplatform #platformengineering

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 16h

Tonight at AWS User Group Bergstrasse 🎤 Lars Kinder on "Build Once, Deploy Many": package an artifact once, promote it across environments, roll back safely. Perfect timing after my week of pipeline confessions. 📅 19:00 CEST 👉 lckhd.eu/3Fs2Bs

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 22/09/2026

Live now! 🚀 CI/CD Refresher: Multi-Stage GitHub Actions Pipeline for Pegasus Galaxy Pegasus Galaxy is my browser + mobile conqueror game: serverless backend (AppSync + DynamoDB + CDK), three frontends. Parallel tests, parallel deploys, promotion across environments. Interesting contrast with

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 12/09/2026

two more to 1300. when do u think I will get them? Subscribe to my YT channel now and drop a comment below 👇 lckhd.eu/ykh4GL #cloud #automation #future

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 07/09/2026

I pimped my report with an image! #BuildInPublic 📊 App Stats Update (last 30 days) 🚀 3,877 new installs across 6 apps 🔄 6,391 app updates 📱 1,767 active devices (Android) 🍎 ~24 daily active (iOS) 📈 +0.5% installs vs last period • Gem,Ore & 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 03/09/2026

The #AWSCommunityDayDACH26 is in less than two weeks! Sign up now if you haven't yet! #AWSCommunity lckhd.eu/2kC6Ar

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 02/09/2026

Crazy how i can now post to different platforms using the @nexus_share MCP server but I can't get my Pegasus Galaxy MCP server to work correctly #BuildInPublic

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 30/08/2026

Using AI to write is fine. I do it myself — Nexus Share helps me with social posts and knows my tone of voice. But I read, correct, tweak, and make sure it expresses MY thoughts. There's a huge difference between using AI as a tool vs. letting it replace your thinking. lckhd.eu/3c8Ln6

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 27/08/2026

At the AWS Heroes Summit we talked about how many of us have gone quiet in 2026. AI floods the internet with content — but YOUR voice, your experience, your mistakes... that's irreplaceable.

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 26/08/2026

AI makes it "too simple" to generate blog posts in 2026. But your own thoughts, your battle scars, your decisions — that's what makes content valuable. I wrote about why writing and sharing knowledge still matters: lckhd.eu/QYwLE0

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 20/08/2026

This video on Krio Crew made it to the „200er-club“ in less than three days. Why is Kiro Crew so interesting for you? Tell me please as I am mysenot sure yet. #AWSCommunity #Kiro #KiroCrew #AgenticAI

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 20/08/2026

#Kiro has grown to more than one app and front end. Massimo did a great write up last week: lckhd.eu/pC9fap Read it and tl;dr - look at the diagram! #AWS #AIEngineering #AIPlatform

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 18/08/2026

📊 App Stats Update (last 30 days) 🚀 858 new installs across 8 apps 🔄 3,729 app updates 📱 1,857 active devices (Android) 🍎 ~34 daily active (iOS) • Gem,Ore & Struct Finder for MC: 1,822 installed, ~34/day iOS, +855 new, 3,704 updates • HC VfL: 15 installed, 9 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 18/08/2026

Why I think we should still write blogs - with typos, our own thoughts and our experiences. Are you still writing blogs? #Blogging #AWSCommunity #AI lckhd.eu/IC5Xci

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 13/08/2026

I can’t believe an important post like this getting nearly no traction on LI. something is broken 😞 now check out lckhd.eu/d9Lo4h and either register or look at sponsoring opportunities ❤️🫶🔥 #awscommunity #awsdach #awsheroes #awscommunitybuilders

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 12/08/2026

I've recently open-sourced a "Build In Public" repository on GitHub Check out the "getting started" page - lckhd.eu/QFYhSt #BuildInPublic Open for contributions in #OpenSource - Issues and PRs welcome! #AWSCommunity

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 10/08/2026

I've been wanting to write this for a while, the flight from & back to the #AWSHeroesSummit gave me the chance to finish and polish it. We are all building with #AI these days, but I think we all go through phases of building with it. Where are you stuck right 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 04/08/2026

The importance of feedback- reflecting ahead of the #AWSHeroesSummit We should not forget how important the right direction of feedback is #AWSHeroes lckhd.eu/lNztnq

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 04/08/2026

And so it starts 🫶 Kickoff of the #AWSHeroesSummit to learn and share knowledge Great to be back in Seattle with fellow #AWSHeroes

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 03/08/2026

#AWS Blocks explained by Salih - great and interesting project AWS Blocks Explained: Local Mocking, Agent-Friendly Backends lckhd.eu/4oPzGa

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 03/08/2026

And so it starts for real! #AWSHeroes assembling on the way to Seattle 🙃 #AWSCommunity - do u have any questions for #AWS we should ask? only the hard ones please 🥺

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 31/07/2026

All six updates are finally approved in both stores 💪💪💪 how is ur mobile dev project going? #BuildInPublic

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 20/07/2026

📊 App Stats Update (last 30 days) 🚀 1,403 new installs across 7 apps 🔄 3,806 app updates 📱 39 active devices (Android) 🍎 ~43 daily active (iOS) • Gem,Ore & Struct Finder for MC: ~43/day iOS, +1,394 new, 3,786 updates • Nexus Share - Social Scheduler: 15 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 14/07/2026

The summer-UG meetups are always the best! #Beer and great conversations! This week in Frankfurt, next week in Bensheim! Join us: Bergstrasse - lckhd.eu/hVlEYT Frankfurt - 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 12/07/2026

Here's a chance to speak at our community day on the 15ths of september in Berlin! We're OK if you don't want to talk about AI, share your story with what you're bilding on AWS! lckhd.eu/wtJjZV #AWSCommunity #AWSCommunityDAY #AWSDACH

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 01/07/2026

Best practices for using your smartphone 📲 …if the game plan doesn't want to be plane enough… Do you have similar life hacks? ❤️ #SmartphoneTips #LifeHacks #TechTips #Productivity

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 28/06/2026

“SaaS Is Dead”? The Blunt Reality Check lckhd.eu/9PmsfY

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 24/06/2026

Oh ye, finally approved in iOS aswell! Unscratch the world, my own implementation of a new app to collect the places you've visited on the world lckhd.eu/w6YGuD Built with #Kiro and #KiroWeb :-)

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 22/06/2026

📊 App Stats Update (last 30 days) 🚀 1,030 new installs across 8 apps 🔄 1,036 app updates 📱 1,963 active devices (Android) 🍎 ~56 daily active (iOS) • Gem,Ore & Struct Finder for MC: 1,931 installed, ~56/day iOS, +1,021 new, 999 updates • Nexus Share - Social 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 19/06/2026

Access #KiroWeb from your mobile phone on iOS? I've been playing around with it, here's my take on where it stands today and a few things that are missing lckhd.eu/j9kLVG Great to see where this 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 15/06/2026

Now available 🔧👨‍💻 How crucial is human decision-making in an AI-driven world? My latest discussion with Yogesh unravels the evolving landscape of #DevOps and the role of automation. Tune in to learn about balancing tech & tradition. #Automation #TechInnovations lckhd.eu/wyFglO

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 14/06/2026

Going live in 2 minutes here 🎶🎵🎶 I assume that’s quite unexpected for most of you 😂 lckhd.eu/js863w #choir #singing #masifunde

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 12/06/2026

Five green checkmarks. ✅ I am a bit proud 🥹 Thank you #Kiro (and #KiroWeb) for making my free time enjoyable building fun things at light speed. Exciting times building ❤️

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 12/06/2026

This is a big one. Ona is joining the Codex team at OpenAI. Congrats to Johannes, Lou and the rest of the team. Is this the start of the consolidation I was expecting for end of 2026 and 2027? What do you think? lckhd.eu/xtQa8Z #AgenticCoding #Ona

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 08/06/2026

Today on my YouTube Steve and I talk about a research that the CD foundation did and about the important aspects that you need to keep in mind when establishing a platform engineering mindset. 🔥 Do you agree? What's your experience? 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 08/06/2026

We're meeting this wednesday for the #AWSMeetup of the #AWSUGBergstrasse - 7 pm CEST Would love to see you there - please RSVP 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 07/06/2026

1250. Good milestone. 🔥🥳 Thank you everyone! 🫶 What topics are you interested in right now? Let me know 🤗 lckhd.eu/TsrJYd

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 04/06/2026

Just sharing a new thing Testing it now and looking for more testers 🫶 lckhd.eu/h13zEp #Kiro #BuildInPublic

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 02/06/2026

I'm excited that I'm back at #CLCConf this year in november speaking about Declarative Resource provisioning and about LLMFinOps on #k8s Would love to see a few of you there! lckhd.eu/h3ElFg #CLCConf2026 #PublicSpeaking #Kubernetes #Platformengineering

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 01/06/2026

NOW we talk about running Agents on #AWS #AgentCore Andres walks us through a setup of running gateway, runtime and memory fully on AWS connected to #Bedrock Very cool and actionable insights from a real shooting star! What's your #Agent experience so far? lckhd.eu/azyPtr

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 25/05/2026

Now on my YouTube channel: Why This Channel Is Expanding Beyond CI/CD: Platform Engineering, Developer Experience & AI Agents lckhd.eu/E6SmFy #PlatformEngineering #CICD #Automation

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 20/05/2026

Anahit share ös her experiences with the hidden trade offs of distributed architectures at the #AWSCommunity stage 🔥 Full house 🏠 and a lot of learnings 🙌 #AWSCloud #DevCommunity #DistributedSystems #TechSpeaker #AWSSummit

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 20/05/2026

Starting off the our #AWSSummit in Hamburg at the Developer Community Zone with friends ❤️ Hey, there is a Kiro escape room too 🔥

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 19/05/2026

Pre-#AWSSummit in Hamburg: #Housewarming Looking forward to two hopefully interesting sessions on GitOps, EKS, Kro and Automode and then on building Agents! #AWSCommunity #AWS

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 11/05/2026

🚀 Ready to supercharge your development process? Check out our latest discussion on Kiro Web's powerful capabilities! Discover how agents are transforming coding as we know it & share your thoughts! #KiroWeb #AI 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 11/05/2026

Ryan and I have been playing around with Kiro Web - the newest addition to the #Kiro family. Here's a few details on how we liked it and where it falls short... Have a look and tell us what you think too: lckhd.eu/rV355e e.g. no mobile 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 09/05/2026

My YouTube channel is back in active mode and I would appreciate any comments or questions. Topic suggestions are also welcomed. 🔥 If you don't have time now - subscribe to get reminded with the next video 🫶 lckhd.eu/zuV049 #YouTube #DevOps #TechCommunity

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 06/05/2026

I'm building a "Team Manager" for Sports-Clubs or teams as a side-project for my Handball-Club It combines a personal problem of managing the sports-team of my son and my personal interest of building fun stuff! Unfortunately I needed to implement a #WhatsApp 🧵

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 04/05/2026

A new video on my YouTube channel: Using AWS Kiro + an MCP Server to Automate Music Production in Reaper (Spec-Driven Mixing with AI) lckhd.eu/i83Ju1 #Kiro #GenerativeAI #Music #AI

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Johannes "Lockhead" Koch @lockhead.dev · 29/04/2026

New #AWSUserGroup alert! 🔥 There's one starting up near me and I couldn't be more excited about it! First event: May 12th (won't make this one sadly) But hey, if you're in the Mannheim area, you should totally check it out! Building local cloud communities is so 🧵

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