Thoughts, patterns, and lessons from building real cloud and AI systems

WOW. Last week was a treasure trove of friends, content, releases, and everything in between.

This week kicks off re:Invent 2025, where there are sure to be lots of stellar releases in serverless and AI.

Spotlighted builders, standout reads, a must-see social signal, and a bleeding edge insight on cloud + AI, curated weekly by Allen Helton.

We got some rockstar-quality content on how developers are building better systems last week.

We got some introspective and out-of-the-box looks at AI we don't normally focus on last week.

There's so much talk about building AI agents, have you built one yet?