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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.
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This week's highlight
AgentCore, hold the Lambda

Learn how to communicate directly with AgentCore, leaving your Lambda functions behind.

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article Issue #219
MCP with a user interface

A cool emerging part of the MCP standard allows you to return UI components to clients as part of your answer, leading to richer …

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article Issue #218
Zipping 15GB of S3 files in Lambda in 215 seconds

You can do a whole lot more in Lambda than you realized with proper memory management.

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article Issue #217
Agent development has changed… again.

In the past two years, tech has seen an incredibly fast cycle on how we build AI agents. Things have changed again, but in a good way.

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