Issue #220
Filling the AI Experience Gap
AI has changed everything. What does that mean for the next generation of software developers?
June 15, 2026
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Issue #219
MCP with a user interface
A cool emerging part of the MCP standard allows you to return UI components to clients as part of your answer, leading to richer …
June 08, 2026
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Issue #218
Zipping 15GB of S3 files in Lambda in 215 seconds
You can do a whole lot more in Lambda than you realized with proper memory management.
June 01, 2026
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Issue #217
Agent development has changed… again.
In the past two years, tech has seen an incredibly fast cycle on how we build AI agents. Things have changed again, but in a good way.
May 25, 2026
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Issue #216
Think again about running agents locally
Are you running an AI agent on your dev machine to do work for you? You may have some security issues.
May 18, 2026
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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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