Thoughts, patterns, and lessons from building real cloud and AI systems

I built a deliberately overengineered serverless hackathon project with agents, event-driven choreography, and what not to do... on purpose.

"Yes, but what about cold starts" is a phrase that makes us roll our eyes every time we hear it. But now we can throw out some scientific proofs!

Lambda Durable Functions has taken over our tech community by storm, and for good reason!

WOW. Last week was a treasure trove of friends, content, releases, and everything in between.

This week kicks off re:Invent 2025, where there are sure to be lots of stellar releases in serverless and AI.

Spotlighted builders, standout reads, a must-see social signal, and a bleeding edge insight on cloud + AI, curated weekly by Allen Helton.