David Smith
@davidfsmith.bsky.social
Technologist // Trackboss // ex AWS // ex DevEx Connect All opinions are my own
Our next AI in Practice event is live on Meetup - 26 Aug! 🎤 Anton Nazaruk & Ivaylo Iliev, From Zero to HyperPod 🎤 Silvia Lehnis, Beyond Prompt Optimisation www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i... #AWS #AWSCommunity #MLOps #GenAI #LLMs #AI
Epic wipeout whilst wakeboarding today, glad for the crash helmet and impact vest
I’ve just got a Claude Max account - I still hit some of the session usage limits but it’s just a case of going for a walk or grabbing a brew and then carrying on ;-)
Jon Jackson@iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 3mo agoOf late, I keep burning through GitHub Copilot’s monthly allowance way too quickly with some agentic coding. Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Of late, I keep burning through GitHub Copilot’s monthly allowance way too quickly with some agentic coding. Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Just checked my bucket list and realised I’m really very boring
AWS UG UK is back, 15th July. Guilherme Dalla Rosa (MerCloud) on secure multi-tenant SaaS on AWS Serverless, plus Matt Johnson (MongoDB) on the engineering behind Atlas on AWS. meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #AWSCommunity #Serverless #Atlas #IAM #SaaS
First outing on the new wakeboard down at Hove Lagoon this afternoon youtu.be/pWO_Utj2YQs
Hove Lagoon - Wakeboarding - 20251031 - Run 1
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Good morning early risers (yes, this is "early" to me - I know, I know you've been awake for hours…). Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release. Also, please share 🙏❣️ ffconf.org/cfp
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Our latest videos are out! Marina Kim on the reality of building AI agents on AWS Bedrock, and Damien Jones on shipping a live AWS platform in 5 weeks. awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AWSCommunity #AIAgents #AmazonBedrock #GenAI
1 week to go! 🎤Marina Kim, AgentCore vs Reality: What really breaks when you ship AI agents on AWS 🎤Damien Jones, Best in Show: Zero to live AWS platform in 5 weeks with CDK, Amplify & Kiro www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i... #AWS #AWSCommunity #AmazonBedrock #AIAgents
Amused to be learning tmux and vim more now that I’m using AI for stuff
Realising “would you like to cover” when sitting in your hospital gown in a chair is not a request ;-)
100 devs, a $3B SaaS company, a few weeks. Daniel Jones shares what it really takes to shift teams into AI-native, multi-agent & why tools alone aren’t enough. www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i... #AWSCommunity #DevOps #AWS #AgenticCoding #AINativeEngineering
Join us on 15th Apr for 2 great talks... 🎤 Alex Le Peltier - Real-Time Sign Language in the Cloud: Building Accessibility Infrastructure on AWS 🎤 Daniel Jones - Agentic Coding For 100 Developers meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i... #AI #AWS #AgenticAI #Accessibility #AWSCommunity #DevOps
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1 week to go! Two super practical talks + networking 🎤 Matt Johnson: When things go wrong: managing cloud costs 🎤 @codek1.bsky.social (Dan Keeley): Predictable data engineering on AWS Grab your spot: www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #CloudCosts #DataEngineering #DevOps
Join Matt Johnson, London, Wed 11 Mar, 18:00 for “When things go wrong: Managing cost in the cloud”. Real-world AWS cost failures, tooling limits, and practical guardrails. www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #Devops #CostOptimization
Just dropped: the video of Paul Stack’s talk - “AI as Your New SRE: The Next Frontier of DevOps” Watch here: awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AI #AWSCommunity #DevOps #CICD #SRE
Customer call giving me the fear that I’m now living in The Phoenix Project #DevOps
We’ve just published the video of @topper.me.uk's AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion. Watch now - awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AI #Serverless #AWSCommunity #DevOps #EC2
Agentic AI + the next frontier of DevOps in one night! 🎤 Phillie Wright (Anthropic) - Building Effective Agents 🎤 Paul Stack (System Initiative) - AI as your new SRE LIMITED space, register your interest awsuguk.org/aws-ai-in-pr... #DevOps #SRE #AgenticAI #PlatformEngineering #AI
If you send a meeting invite for me at a date & time when I have a blocker already in my diary you’re just proving how incompetent you are