*BREAKING NEWS*
There is room for everyone in tech.
Don’t have a degree? Join us! Starting a second career 30 years in? We’ve got room!
Your job is not in jeopardy because more people are excited about development. Make space for those who are different from you! 💖
are you still sleeping on the Agent Toolkit for AWS???
the agent toolkit gives your agent validated procedures so it stops improvising your infrastructure
go.aws/3SsPmWh
Most agent frameworks make you set up their whole world before you can build anything, but Strands lets you just write Python.
3 things you can ship:
1️⃣ Decorated tool workflows
2️⃣ AI assistants (MCP human-in-the-loop)
3️⃣ Typed Pydantic research agents
#AI#Agents#Python
made a cat that's obsessed with your cursor
i can't stop playing with this.. i'm a big fan of putting cats on everything everywhere
what should i replace the cursor with? butterflies? some treats?
made with gemini & flow
Ahh I have been so excited about the new AWS Agent Toolkit and it's finally here and I can talk about it!
🚀 40 skills
🚀 3 agent plugins
🚀 Remote MCP server that agents can use to call all 15,000 AWS APIs run scripts, search docs, retrieve skills
github.com/aws/agent-toolkit…
"Team spec-driven" vs "team vibe coding": still a better love story than Twilight.
Actually I've never seen or read Twilight I don't know which is better. But I talked with @nyike from @InfoWorld for an article about the differences: infoworld.com/article/416681…
Latest blog is up! Trainium news took over my timeline last week, so I figured it was finally time to explain how it works, and why it works so well. There's a can Vs should framing underneath it all, and I unpack it in this piece:
THIS IS HOW I SURVIVED MY 1ST 90 DAYS AS A CLOUD DEVELOPER, AFTER ALMOST QUITING IN MY FIRST 3 WEEKS!
Go read how I survived: builder.aws.com/content/3DEc…
Do you ever find AI-isms creeping into your speech? The other day I found myself saying, "Here's the thing..." out loud, and was like, huh, I don't think that was part of my vocabulary in the before times ...
Marc Brooker (AWS Distinguished Eng) technical book recs: "For anybody who's building distributed system things, I highly recommend Martin Kleppman's book. I think there's a second edition of that coming out soon.
Hennessy and Patterson's computer architecture book. This is a super, super useful one that covers a ton of ground.
I read a ton of mostly papers when I'm reading technical things I find find engaging at that level more, more useful for me.
And by the way, that's become way more accessible now. One of the great ways to dive into a paper is hey, hey, Claude, summarize this for me and then, then I can dive into it and read the author's words.
And I find that mode is great and it's super accessible for people who haven't been able to read papers in the past." @MarcJBrooker
Marc Brooker ( @MarcJBrooker ) is a Distinguished Eng at AWS who has been building distributed systems there for almost 2 decades. I interviewed him about technical learnings from his experience. We discussed:
• Learnings from 3000 post mortems
• When caching is a bad idea
• How software engineering is changing
• Visibility and apparent expertise
• How to find the best problems
Where to watch:
• YouTube: youtu.be/u3GjIXP9N0s
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qX…
• Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript: developing.dev/p/aws-disting…
Marc Brooker ( @MarcJBrooker ) is a Distinguished Eng at AWS who has been building distributed systems there for almost 2 decades. I interviewed him about technical learnings from his experience. We discussed:
• Learnings from 3000 post mortems
• When caching is a bad idea
• How software engineering is changing
• Visibility and apparent expertise
• How to find the best problems
Where to watch:
• YouTube: youtu.be/u3GjIXP9N0s
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qX…
• Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript: developing.dev/p/aws-disting…