While we're on the subject, there are a few things that the incoming administration / Department of Government Efficiency could do to drastically improve the efficiency and fairness of our postal system by reforming the US Postal Service – starting with ending the USPS monopoly on mailboxes and mail. 🧵

Another big Pre:Invent release: Step Functions now supports workflow-scoped variables and JSONata for JSON transformations. This will simplify building workflows by approximately 99.92% 😅 /cc Tomasz Łakomy buff.ly/3OjAjsX

🎉🚀 HUGE NEWS! AWS Step Functions just leveled up! 🚀🎉 You can now build distributed serverless applications faster with enhanced variable and payload management!! Learn more: aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/… #AWS #Serverless #StepFunctions #StepFunctionsUnleashed

This is a MASSIVE feature for EventBridge & Step Functions. Makes it super easy to integrate with Container or EC2 workloads — just setup your private API as a target. Fantastic work on this by the team!

Feature request for Slack.

This is a solid improvement. More going on under the hood to make this work well than you’d expect.

Hey #serverless, if you missed any AWS Serverless releases from Q4 2024, we have you covered! Julian Wood and I pulled these together for you! aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/…

This is AWESOME!! EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly, without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. More details here: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what… #aws #serverless #eventbridge

This feels like an under-appreciated EventBridge launch: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…. The team have documented *every* event emitted by an AWS service (docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/la…) and made it easy to build rules from them. Schemas for each next?

Added some new functionality to the EventBridge integration with EventCatalog. You can now ⭐️ Import schemas directly into your services and domains from schema discovery (if enabled) ⭐️ Import schemas from custom schema registry into EventCatalog ⭐️ Add semantic meaning to

I'm keen to learn what folks like and dislike about reachability analysis in your vulnerability management tools? Any opportunities to do something better? Missing features of functionality? Integrations? Annoyances? Let me know!

Nick Smit

This. I’ve been doing this with Safety Cybersecurity and it’s such a powerful way to communicate ideas and features. Feels like a new super power - I love it!

Our research team Safety Cybersecurity found a NPM package published by a large payment processor ($80B/year) that leaks credit card details to an ngrok endpoint. An unfortunate example of how a legitimate actor can compromise your software supply chain. getsafety.com/blog-posts/pay…

Upgrading from 18GB to 64GB MBP is such a massive quality of life improvement. I've gone from always feeling constrained around what I open or leave open, to instead feeling an unconstrained abundance. All the Firefox tabs. All the Docker containers. All the IDEs.

I’m at #RSAC2025 this week! If you’re also in town, let me know — I’d love to say hi!

New blog post, with some career advice: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06/2…

Fantastic to see logging for Amazon EventBridge launched! It took a while, but this will make it significantly easier to debug what's happening in your event bus. Congrats to the team!