Agentic bumper bowling
Keep agents from wandering off by adding deterministic guardrails
The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS's DevOps Agent with David Yanacek
Corey Quinn has incredible wit. We talk AWS history and DevOps at AWS.
DuneOps Part 2: Crossing bloodlines
How AI lets us combine the best of every operational model.
Dune as an operational model
The part of DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Frontline Ops that actually matters.
Vibe Coding or Spec-Driven Development? How to Choose
An article in Infoworld about focusing on quality with coding agents.
Using AI Agents To TRULY INCREASE Software Engineering Productivity
Property-based testing and spec-driven development with The Engineering Room.
AWS's Frontier Agents Are Now GA
The AI Economy interviews me about the GA of AWS DevOps and Security Agents.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
New York Times Magazine interviewed me about how agents are changing software engineering.
Amazon's IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek
Software Engineering Daily invited me on to talk about Kiro and spec-driven development.
How AWS re:Invented the Cloud
The Stack Overflow Podcast hosted a conversation about AWS history.
Move beyond reactive: Transform cloud ops with AWS DevOps Agent
A walkthrough of AWS DevOps Agent from its initial launch.
David Yanacek on Vibe Coding vs. Spec-Driven Development: Balancing Speed, Security, and Scale
Techstrong TV has me on to talk spec-driven development with Kiro.
David introduces Kiro, an agentic IDE
A well-produced marketing video where I talk about side quests.
AI coding with friends
David and Darko MesaroΕ‘ talk Kiro and show it in action.
Don't get stuck: How connected telemetry keeps you moving forward
The Grand Unified Theory of Incident Management and how to never reach a dead end.
Building the future of cloud operations at any scale
Demos of new connected telemetry and transaction search features in CloudWatch.
Building observability to increase resiliency
Observability is a means to an end, and this talk is about how to achieve that.
Cloud operations for today, tomorrow, and beyond
Demoing auto-clustering of log patterns and generating queries in CloudWatch Logs.
The Amazon Builders' Library: 25 yrs of Amazon operational excellence
Stories from running incident calls, to deployment and change safety.
Observability best practices at Amazon
A bunch of specific practices to use observability to solve real problems.
Using dependency isolation to contain concurrency overload
Sometimes systems overload just from things slowing down.
Amazon Builders' Library: Operational Excellence at Amazon
Five stories about improving operational culture.
Monitoring Production Services at Amazon
How to make monitoring measure the real customer experience.
Fairness in multi-tenant systems
How to shed load discriminately.
Introducing The Amazon Builders' Library
Lightning talks on distributed systems and ops by AWS' best engineers.
Architecting and Operating Resilient Serverless Systems at Scale
How to do load shedding, dependency isolation, queue management, and ops in serverless.
Avoiding insurmountable queue backlogs
The temptation to queue work and deal with it later can become undrainable.
Implementing health checks
The most well-intentioned health checks can lead to even worse outages.
Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility
You can't operate a service effectively if you don't instrument it.
Using load shedding to avoid overload
Strategies for maintaining predictable, consistent performance in the face of overload.
From Zero to NoSQL Hero: Amazon DynamoDB Tutorial
An overview of DynamoDB and how to think about data modeling.