Same 💙

re:Invent was absolutely incredible but beyond all things, it was unexpected. I shared my thoughts on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/allenhel…

When building APIs, success messages are just as important as error messages. This morning I said "𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨" and the response I got was simply "𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵." 😑 Was my rating saved? Was any action performed at all? When you're interacting with a

Workflow building took a MAJOR leap forward recently 🔥🔥 When Step Functions released JSONata and variable support, I thought "𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴." But it's SO MUCH MORE than that!! I finally had

I love using Hugo for static site generation, but it's gotten more and more difficult to share embedded content from social media because it only natively supports Twitter through the use of a shortcode. But everyone is leaving Twitter, LinkedIn is booming, and nobody has

"You can't build 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 software with serverless." Real software is...

Found in the family room of our current hospital. I'm not crying, you're crying! Children's Health 💙

WebSockets are hard. Fortunately, AppSync events made them easy... kinda. There's a lot to real-time communication, and I'm all for higher and higher levels of abstraction. But as good as AppSync events is, I think we could have used a bit more 🌱 readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.hel…

Of all the things that are surprisingly difficult, getting a tiny piece of shell out of a bowl of raw eggs reigns supreme 😠

Serverless Picks of the Week #143! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is Danny Thompson, Director of Technology at This Dot. Danny is an incredible community advocate - enabling, inspiring, and educating countless devs. Thank you so much for everything, Danny💙! readysetcloud.io/newsletter/143

This was actually a very good stream

The Virtual Office: Building a multi-agent party planning committee x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

So you have an MCP server...now what? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Building an agent-ready API from scratch. No humans allowed. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Having a hoot at #postcon, especially chatting APIs with the owl. Definitely the wisest attendee I've met so far 🦉