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SQS
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Oct 15, 2025
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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
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Aug 3, 2025
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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
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Oct 3, 2024
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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)
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AWS
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Jun 14, 2026
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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
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Jun 13, 2026
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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
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Jun 12, 2026
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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
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Jun 11, 2026
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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.
AWS
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Jun 10, 2026
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10 min read
SL#65 - AWS AI Series (7/30) - Strands Agents 101: Build a Code-Defined Agent With 3 Custom Tools in ~50 Lines of Python
We build a local agent that answers questions about any codebase on your disk, using three custom tools and Amazon Bedrock. Plan for about 60 minutes if you have AWS credentials ready, 90 if you have to enable Bedrock model access first.
AWS
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Jun 8, 2026
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9 min read
SL#62 - AWS AI Series (5/30) - Make a Small Model Act Big: Fine-Tune Nova Micro on Bedrock and Benchmark It vs Base
Take the smallest Nova model, teach it one job, and watch it jump from 41% to 97% accuracy for $2.18 - then serve it at the cheap-model price.