I built a local AI agent with its own identity and thought I was doing security right. Boy, was I wrong. Identity is one layer. It doesn't close the four attack vectors that come with running an agent on your machine. 🧵

Last year I gave a talk to the largest audience of my career on a niche topic I'm uniquely qualified to speak about. At IaCConf 2025, I spoke about what happened to Infrastructure From Code in front of ~650 people. 🧵 // sponsored by @spacelift.io

We're giving AI agents access to prod. And that often means long-lived keys sitting in an .env. I almost did the same. Switching to session-based identity changed how I feel about them. Architecture + lessons👉https://tinyurl.com/ksatbsr4 Sponsored by Teleport. Opinions my own

📢🚀 Learn how AI agents can automate content repurposing, from extracting quotes to creating video clips, all with serverless! | Join #Serverless Office Hours with @readysetcloud.io and @andmore.dev. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...

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Part 27 of DEV Track Spotlight 🤖 Together with @readysetcloud.io, I demonstrated how to build production-ready multi-agent AI systems at AWS re:Invent (DEV415). The key? Treat agents like distributed systems with A2A protocol, MCP for typed interfaces, and RISEN prompts for deterministic behavior.

I'm still shocked this worked as well as it did 🤯

Darryl Ruggles@darryl-ruggles.cloud · 2y ago

www.youtube.com/live/jjHRivm... People should check this out! Andres and Allen got a really nice looking Battleship game up and running in under an hour from scratch. They used the Vercel V0 AI-assisted platform with no real coding involved and backed by a Momento cache. @believeinsls.bsky.social

Serverless Picks of the Week #143! Our serverless superhero is @dthompsondev.bsky.social, Director of Technology at This Dot and tremendous community advocate. Danny's ability to enable, inspire, and educate people is unrivaled💙. Thank you for everything, Danny! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

Ready, Set, Cloud!

AppSync events got some much needed attention last week, plus some wonderful insights and thoughts from around the community.

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Is it, though?

What have I done to make this an article that Google thinks I would want to read?!? How do I undo this??

There's something both satisfying and annoying about using the last bag in a roll of trash bags 🤔

Of all the things that are surprisingly difficult, getting a tiny piece of shell out of a bowl of raw eggs reigns supreme 😠

WebSockets are hard. Fortunately, AppSync events made them easy... kinda. There's a lot to real-time communication, and I'm all for higher and higher levels of abstraction. But as good as AppSync events is, I think we could have used a bit more 🌱 www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.h...

Serverless Picks of the Week #142! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is Philipp Krenn, DA and community lead at Elastic! Philipp really understands the hard part of serverless data, and does a🔥job explaining it to others. Thank you for everything you do, Philipp 💙! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/142

Ready, Set, Cloud!

The community is resting after an intense week at AWS re:Invent, more than likely gearing up for some cool new projects in 2025.

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Found in the family room at the current hospital we're at. I'm not crying, you're crying!

This is how my morning started out 😑

I'm kinda mad at myself that I haven't been using code-based diagramming tools like Mermaid for years. I always lose the original diagram and have to redraw it from scratch to make updates. But not with a code-based approach 🔥

It might look like I was a lot more enthusiastic about taking this picture, but I assure you the feelings were mutual 🤣💙

When building APIs, success messages are equally as important as error messages. This morning I said "𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨" and the response I got was simply "𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵." 😑 Was my rating saved? Was any action performed at all? When you're interacting with a human, you need more than a 200 OK.

Serverless Picks of the Week #141! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is @marcbrooker.bsky.social, VP/distinguished engineer at AWS! Marc has directly helped shape the serverless world as we know it in multiple ways. Thank you for everything you do, Marc! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

Ready, Set, Cloud!

So much happened at AWS re:Invent last week, but there was one clear winner that left everyone talking.

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re:Invent was absolutely incredible but beyond all things, it was unexpected. I shared my thoughts on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/allenh...

Allen Helton on LinkedIn: This year's re:Invent in one word: 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. Unexpected in…

This year's re:Invent in one word: 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. Unexpected in that I didn't even think I was going to go. Life has been sending me on a rollercoaster…

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Omg did that just happen

Come find @readysetcloud.io and I at booth 1870 and say hi! Also grab awesome momento and @believeinsls.bsky.social stickers and swag 🔥

Found some rando's walking through the hall @ajs.bsky.social

Serverless Picks of the Week #140! Our serverless🦸‍♂️ is Dave Hall, AWS training lead at Pfizer and AWS Community Builder. Dave is a wonderful resource for anything cloud related and a friendly face always willing to help. Thank you for everything, Dave! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/140

Ready, Set, Cloud!

AWS re:Invent has official begun! Let's cover the last of the fun pre:Invent announcements and look at some fantastic content from the community.

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I'm so proud with how far this community has come in a year. WE HAVE AWARDS!!! 💙💙💙 By the way, we are 13 away from 1000 members on Discord, will you be the one that puts us over the top? believeinserverless.com/community

Believe in Serverless@believeinsls.bsky.social · 2y ago

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This bathroom's GitHub contribution history is impressive

PSA: Don't give your friends edit permission to your slides 🤣

Here's a shot from my Thanksgiving day pardon yesterday. Everybody came out to watch 🐐🐓🦃🪿

As I loaded 300lbs of chicken feed into my Jeep, I was quickly reminded it was leg day this morning 🫠🫠🫠