Issue #215
Using AI to Create Music
Have you ever wanted to create your own music but felt a little overwhelmed? Just use AI!
May 11, 2026
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Issue #214
Goodbye, Amazon Q Developer
AWS announced end of support for Amazon Q Developer in favor of Kiro. You have another year to make the switch.
May 04, 2026
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Issue #213
The Modern Architecture Trinity
This week we discuss process intelligence, event-driven architecture, and agentic AI as the foundational pillars of modern architecture.
April 27, 2026
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Issue #212
Lessons from 500K Agent Deployments
Take it from the people who've done it time and time again - agent development is normalizing with some hard-learned lessons.
April 20, 2026
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Issue #211
S3 as a filesystem!?
AWS released S3 files, letting you add a layer on top of S3 to treat objects as files. It's about time!
April 13, 2026
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Issue #210
Build your own AI film crew
We have great content on using AWS to build your own personal film crew to edit videos.
April 06, 2026
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Issue #209
Let’s get serious about AI agents
It's no secret agentic AI has taken over. While there's still much to learn, major optimizations are starting to pop up.
March 30, 2026
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Issue #208
Is MCP already broken?
We all know about MCP. But now the community is asking hard questions about whether it was the right call.
March 23, 2026
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Issue #207
The devil’s in the details
Taking your system from good to great takes attention to detail, not major architectural shifts.
March 16, 2026
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