🦸 Community Superhero
Our community superhero this week is Kesha Williams, Managing Partner at Keysoft and AWS AI Hero. Kesha has spent 25+ years building cloud-native systems and is one of the clearest voices explaining how AI ops work in real life. She’s also a TED speaker and global keynote. Thank you for everything you do, Kesha!
💯 Spotlight
In our last issue we saw that AWS announced the Agent Registry as an AgentCore offering. This issue, we already have a write-up of a migration over to it with pretty much everything you need to know before you do it yourself. Danny Teller goes through why he did it, what the setup looked like, what the result was, and some things he wishes he could have told his past self. He also shares what the real payoff was (which you’ll have to read the article to see what it was). Very helpful post if you’re planning on using Agent Registry!
🔥 My Favorite Content
I was caught off-guard last week when I ran across a post from my good buddy Lee Gilmore titled “Why you don’t always need Postman.” I make it no secret I’m a big fan of the company, and have been for years (as has Lee), so this one piqued my interest. In the article, Lee makes a case for writing your own integration test scripts and honestly, has some very good reasons that he defends well. As usual, Lee explains the problem and solution with code samples and easy-to-understand references. Great work on this and genuinely good idea!
We’ve seen a bunch of multi-agent collaboration articles in the past few months, but none quite as thorough or complete as one I found last week from Stan Chang. The post talks about how his agent development has evolved after 500,000+ deployments over the past few years. While that seems like a sensational number that’s probably used just for marketing, you can tell Stan really knows his stuff. I like how the article covers 5 types of agentic memory and how they differ from one another. It also has lessons on context window management, important lessons he’s learned, and how to implement loop protection.
Cool project alert! Brian Tarbox posted about an app he wrote that turns your logs into music streams. The article is less about the project itself and more about his co-development process with Claude code. I really appreciate his take and storytelling ability as he describes how he went from idea to working product to good product. There’s so much value in his insights throughout the article, it’s absolutely worth the read.
💡 Tip of the Week
What do you do when two users update the same database row at the same time? Of course “it depends,” and Alex Xu did a great job last week illustrating the difference between two of your options: optimistic vs pessimistic locking.
🐣 New Releases
Reminder, all releases from AWS can be found on AWS News by Luc van Donkersgoed. Below are my favorite from last week.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, and AWS quickly followed same day with support for it both in Bedrock and in Kiro.
AWS Transform was just made available in both VSCode and in Kiro. You can use it as a power in Kiro or extension in VSCode. Pretty neat enhancement to meet developers where they are.
Last Words
On a non-tech related note - I’ve been working on the website for my non-profit recently and I’m really excited about the upcoming launch in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned from me to check it out and see how you can get involved 💙
That’s my take on the week, but what’s yours?
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Happy coding!
Allen