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Picks of the Week

Ready, Set, Cloud Picks of the Week

Weekly writing and curated links on cloud-native systems and practical AI.

Each week, cut straight to the good stuff about building and operating real cloud and AI systems.

Read weekly by engineers and architects building real systems.
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  • Writing and perspective from real-world system design and operation.
  • One weekly email that connects ideas across cloud, AI, and modern architecture.
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This week's highlight
Blocking bot requests

Learn how to block bot traffic so you aren't paying for unnecessary compute

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article Issue #227
Works on my machine

Last week was full of great solutions that solve some specific use cases. But they might not solve everybody's.

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article Issue #226
The true value of developers in the AI era

As we see more and more code being written by AI agents, developers need to realize their value was never the coding part.

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article Issue #225
Show your work

In an age where software is cheap and human-written content is scarce, I want to remind you to share what you learned!

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