Dad | AWS serverless hero | farmer | web dev | enterprise architect | product @momentohq
Joined February 2012
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I learned last week you can run code in the chrome debugger in the console tab. For over a decade I've thought that was a read-only tab
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May 27
The amount of wasted tokens from repeated tool calls, metadata lookups, and semantically-equivalent messages in AI agents today is staggering.
In 2025, I demonstrated how to build idempotent tools and how to design cacheable APIs for agent use. But that wasn't enough. 🧵
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May 27
My friends at @betterdbhq recently released two packages on npm and PyPI that make this dead-simple to add to your agent logic with only a few lines of code.
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May 27
I wrote up why caching is more important than ever and how you can add this to your apps in an afternoon. 👇
rdyset.click/c/ktoSJI/
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May 14
I built a local AI agent with its own identity and thought I was doing security right.
Boy, was I wrong.
Identity is one layer. It doesn't close the four attack vectors that come with running an agent on your machine. 🧵
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May 14
These aren't identity problems. The best identity model in the world doesn't close any of them.
But what does help is moving the agent off your machine entirely. Ephemeral runtime. Fresh environment per task. No accumulated state except what you give it.
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May 14
I wrote the long version with real scenarios for each vector, and where Teleport Beams helps address these issues for a truly secure agent environment.
Thanks to @GoTeleport for sponsoring this post, it was really fun to write.
readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.…
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May 11
Last year I gave a talk to the largest audience of my career on a niche topic I'm uniquely qualified to speak about.
At IaCConf 2025, I spoke about what happened to Infrastructure From Code in front of ~650 people. 🧵
// sponsored by @spaceliftio
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It tracks with what @spaceliftio (the host) is building: an orchestration platform for both traditional IaC and AI-provisioned infrastructure. AI, IaC, and GitOps combined so devs ship fast and platform teams stay in control.
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May 11
I'm not speaking this year, but I'll be in the audience. If you care about this stuff as much as I do, come hang out.
fandf.co/3QP1tfP/
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Apr 14
Man, API tests are so unforgiving. There is no "partial success." It's all or nothing. I've found them invaluable in the era of agentic coding
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Mar 26
We're giving AI agents access to prod. And that often means long-lived keys sitting in an .env.
I almost did the same.
Switching to session-based identity changed how I feel about them.
Architecture lessons👉readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.…
Sponsored by @goteleport. Opinions my own
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Codex is great at building endpoints. Not so great at building systems.
I blew through my backlog but had 0 confidence in it. I went into @getpostman to write some tests, turns out it's a full IDE now.
I wrote about my lessons learned and new thoughts👇
readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.…
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