💔 Sending love to our friends at AWS
Another round of layoffs plagued AWS employees last week, leaving 16,000 people without a job.
Read issueA weekly publication from Allen Helton
Thoughts, patterns, and lessons from building real cloud and AI systems
Writing, talks, and curated picks on cloud-native systems and practical AI, shared weekly.
Weekly content and curated picks. Already subscribed? You're in the right place.
Things worth reading
See allHooray for 200 issues!
Thank you all for sticking with me for 200 issues of the newsletter. Here's to 200 more!
Read issueAI in the real world
Sci Fi is officially becoming a reality with a clearer understanding of running AI on the edge
Read issue2026 - The year we build better
Coming back from vacation leaves many of us highly-motivated to build new, better software.
Read issueWhen serving images from S3 stopped being good enough
Serving images from S3 worked for years, until it didn't. Here's how I moved image optimization out of my workflow and made performance the default.
Read the full articleWelcome to 2026!
As we ease into the new year, we had some good content that helps us get excited about building.
Read issue