Featured Posts
SQS
+7
Oct 15, 2025
•
4 min read
SL#39 - Make Your Serverless Stack Observable—Before It Breaks
Tracing async workflows, debugging across queues, and the metrics that actually matter—an advanced guide for serverless teams.
AWS
+3
Aug 3, 2025
•
7 min read
SL#35 - Building a Serverless ETL Pipeline with AWS Glue: Integrating DynamoDB, S3, and OpenSearch
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service designed to simplify data integration. It automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs by providing a serverless environment, built-in transformation logic, and native integration with other AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.
DDD
+4
Oct 3, 2024
•
12 min read
SL#33 - Understanding the C4 Architecture Model: A Detailed Breakdown
Adapting the C4 Model for Serverless, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Archive
AWS
+1
Jun 17, 2026
•
10 min read
SL#74 - AWS AI Series (14/30) - Nova Act: Script a Browser Agent That Extracts Data and Fills Forms on a Real Site
Build a Python browser agent with the Amazon Nova Act SDK that navigates a site, pulls structured data into typed Python objects, and fills out a form, all driven by natural language. Plan for 60 to 90 minutes if you have used Playwright or Selenium before.
AWS
+1
Jun 16, 2026
•
8 min read
SL#73 - AWS AI Series (13/30) - Multi-Agent Patterns in Strands: Agents-as-Tools, Swarm, and Graph (and When Each Is Wrong)
Build the same research/writer/reviewer pipeline three ways with the Strands Agents SDK, then learn which pattern to actually reach for.
AWS
+1
Jun 15, 2026
•
9 min read
SL#71 - AWS AI Series (12/30) - Agents You Can Audit: Lock an AgentCore Agent Behind JWT Auth and Trace Every Call in CloudWatch
We take a Strands agent on Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, put a Cognito JWT wall in front of it so only authenticated callers get in, and wire OpenTelemetry so every invocation shows up as a traced session in the CloudWatch GenAI Observability dashboard.
AWS
+1
Jun 14, 2026
•
8 min read
SL#70 - AWS AI Series (11/30) - Give Your Agent Hands: Build a Fact-Checker With AgentCore Code Interpreter and Browser
Build an agent that browses a live page for a real number, then writes and runs Python in a sandbox to verify a claim about it. Two AgentCore built-in tools, one Strands agent.
AWS
+1
Jun 13, 2026
•
9 min read
SL#69 - AWS AI Series (10/30) - Turn a Lambda Into MCP Tools Your Agent Can Call With AgentCore Gateway
Build a managed MCP server in front of an AWS Lambda function, expose two tools to a Strands agent without writing protocol code, then add a REST API as a second target.
AWS
+1
Jun 12, 2026
•
9 min read
SL#67 - AWS AI Series (9/30) - Agents That Remember: Persist User Preferences Across Sessions with AgentCore Memory
Build a Strands agent that recalls who the user is and what they like across separate runs, using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory for both the conversation buffer and the long-term preference store. Plan for about 90 minutes if you finished episode 7, two hours if this is your first Strands agent.
AWS
+1
Jun 11, 2026
•
11 min read
SL#66 - AWS AI Series (8/30) - From Laptop to Prod: Deploy Your RepoScout Agent to Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Take the local RepoScout agent from episode 7 and ship it to a managed, isolated microVM runtime with the AgentCore harness and CLI - the agent code barely changes.