Writing on Software Engineering and everything related to making systems work in practice, from Ops, to Observability, to Continuous Delivery. 2026-05-16T00:00:00.000Z https://blog.dyanacek.com/ David Yanacek https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/16/duneops-part-2/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-16T00:00:00.000Z

How AI lets us combine the best of every operational model.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/10/dune-as-an-operational-model/ 2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

The part of DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Frontline Ops that actually matters.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/06/vibe-coding-or-spec-driven-development-how-to-choose/ 2026-05-06T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-06T00:00:00.000Z

An article in Infoworld about focusing on quality with coding agents.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/03/using-ai-agents-to-increase-software-engineering-productivity/ 2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Property-based testing and spec-driven development with The Engineering Room.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/03/31/aws-frontier-agents-now-ga/ 2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

The AI Economy interviews me about the GA of AWS DevOps and Security Agents.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/03/12/coding-after-coders/ 2026-03-12T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

New York Times Magazine interviewed me about how agents are changing software engineering.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/02/26/amazons-ide-for-spec-driven-development/ 2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Software Engineering Daily invited me on to talk about Kiro and spec-driven development.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2026/01/16/how-aws-re-invented-the-cloud/ 2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

The Stack Overflow Podcast hosted a conversation about AWS history.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2025/12/05/move-beyond-reactive-transform-cloud-ops-with-aws-devops-agent/ 2025-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2025-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

A walkthrough of AWS DevOps Agent from its initial launch.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2025/11/10/vibe-coding-vs-spec-driven-development/ 2025-11-10T00:00:00.000Z 2025-11-10T00:00:00.000Z

Techstrong TV has me on to talk spec-driven development with Kiro.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2025/07/15/david-introduces-kiro-an-agentic-ide/ 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z

A well-produced marketing video where I talk about side quests.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2025/07/14/ai-coding-with-friends/ 2025-07-14T00:00:00.000Z 2025-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

David and Darko Mesaroš talk Kiro and show it in action.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2024/12/07/dont-get-stuck-how-connected-telemetry-keeps-you-moving-forward/ 2024-12-07T00:00:00.000Z 2024-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

The Grand Unified Theory of Incident Management and how to never reach a dead end.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2024/12/02/building-the-future-of-cloud-operations-at-any-scale/ 2024-12-02T00:00:00.000Z 2024-12-02T00:00:00.000Z

Demos of new connected telemetry and transaction search features in CloudWatch.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2023/12/01/building-observability-to-increase-resiliency/ 2023-12-01T00:00:00.000Z 2023-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Observability is a means to an end, and this talk is about how to achieve that.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2023/11/27/cloud-operations-for-today-tomorrow-and-beyond/ 2023-11-27T00:00:00.000Z 2023-11-27T00:00:00.000Z

Demoing auto-clustering of log patterns and generating queries in CloudWatch Logs.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2022/12/05/the-amazon-builders-library-25-yrs-of-amazon-operational-excellence/ 2022-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2022-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Stories from running incident calls, to deployment and change safety.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2022/12/02/observability-best-practices-at-amazon/ 2022-12-02T00:00:00.000Z 2022-12-02T00:00:00.000Z

A bunch of specific practices to use observability to solve real problems.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2022/12/01/using-dependency-isolation-to-contain-concurrency-overload/ 2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z 2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Sometimes systems overload just from things slowing down.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2021/12/16/operational-excellence-at-amazon/ 2021-12-16T00:00:00.000Z 2021-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Five stories about improving operational culture.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2020/12/03/monitoring-production-services-at-amazon/ 2020-12-03T00:00:00.000Z 2020-12-03T00:00:00.000Z

How to make monitoring measure the real customer experience.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2020/11/13/fairness-in-multi-tenant-systems/ 2020-11-13T00:00:00.000Z 2020-11-13T00:00:00.000Z

How to shed load discriminately.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2019/12/16/introducing-the-amazon-builders-library/ 2019-12-16T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Lightning talks on distributed systems and ops by AWS' best engineers.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2019/12/09/resilient-serverless-systems-at-scale/ 2019-12-09T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T00:00:00.000Z

How to do load shedding, dependency isolation, queue management, and ops in serverless.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2019/12/05/avoiding-insurmountable-queue-backlogs/ 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

The temptation to queue work and deal with it later can become undrainable.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2019/12/05/implementing-health-checks/ 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

The most well-intentioned health checks can lead to even worse outages.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2019/12/05/instrumenting-distributed-systems-for-operational-visibility/ 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

You can't operate a service effectively if you don't instrument it.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2019/12/05/using-load-shedding-to-avoid-overload/ 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Strategies for maintaining predictable, consistent performance in the face of overload.

https://blog.dyanacek.com/2014/11/17/from-zero-to-nosql-hero/ 2014-11-17T00:00:00.000Z 2014-11-17T00:00:00.000Z

An overview of DynamoDB and how to think about data modeling.