If you're building a modern application, chances are you need to think about identity Sometimes, you even need to give your machines identities so they can login. What's the smartest way to manage that in 2026? Come find out with @scottgerring.com and me. youtu.be/qwuLB44RMrk #softwaredevelopment

The Smartest Approach to Handling Identity in Distributed Systems

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If an LLM is writing all your code now, why not pick a language that is performant, safe and sustainable. A language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. And then when it does inevitably break, or go wrong, you can pickup my course on Dometrain. #rust #programming

Getting Started: Rust - Dometrain

Learn how to get started with Rust, from the basics of memory management to building and testing a web API that talks to a database.

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Is there anyone in my network running production applications on @vercel.com ? And if so, could you spare me 15 minutes to chat about how you're using it? How you think about architecting applications on the Vercel platform and any challenges you see. #serverless #vercel #developers

Storytelling is such a HUGE part of creating content for me, whether it's conference talks or videos. I've been playing around the last couple of weeks with taking this to another level with a bit of hand drawn animations. #architecture #systemsdesign #animations #storytelling

Serverless! What does it even mean anymore? Find out with @scottgerring.com and me. youtu.be/CNBbqYwB9Fw

The Surprising Truth About Serverless: It's More Than Just Functions

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An AI company accused of grifting customers, how could it be?

Anthropic Accused of Misleading Users Over Soaring AI Costs in New Lawsuit

Affordability is becoming an existential problem for frontier models.

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Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.

"The speech today, the agenda the government's got - it doesn't speak to the moment" - @elliechowns.bsky.social Unlike Labour, the Green Party has a clear plan to tackle the issues that people care about: cost of living, wealth inequality and action on the climate and nature emergency.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Must not read the news today. Must not read the news today.

Serverless ❤️ OpenTelemetry - Better Together Just because you're building serverless applications doesn't mean you can't get value from OpenTelemetry. In fact, I'd recommend it. Find out how in this weeks video. #serverless #opentelemetry #dotnet youtu.be/y4517SxUH_s

Serverless & Open Telemetry ❤️ Better Together

In this video you’ll escape the pain of clicking through endless CloudWatch log groups and trying to piece together X-Ray by learning how to instrument your ...

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Your Guide to Simple, Evolvable Software in Event-Driven Systems is here! In this video, Scott and me talk about how to write cleaner, more evolvable code if you're building an application that needs to process messages from a queue, topic or bus. #software #architecture youtu.be/UBhxmVU70j0

Ergodicity - a word that sounds complicated but is vitally important not only for software architecture but also for day to day life. Recently I took a deep dive into the concept, and threw together some notes. blog.jameseastham.co.uk/blog/2026-04...

Yep Mythos is definitely such a powerful tool. I believe you @anthropic.com . A curious decision to not use it on your own systems, but I'm sure you know what you are doing and we can believe every word you say. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users

A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person fam...

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You'd think this would be front page news wouldn't you.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every time I hear an exec of a tech company, an AI company, or some billionaire talk about how AI is going to change industry X it makes me sad. Obviously the idea of not having to pay people makes you want that outcome. Yet sometimes I feel like there's only a subset of the world who sees it 🤷🏻

Also, how you can trust a thing that hallucinates (no matter how little) is beyond me

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

This 💯

Stacy Cashmore@stacy-clouds.net · 5mo ago

Google having a celebration of Earth day whilst building massive data centers for AI and wasting stupid amounts of eneergy and water is sick. And not in the good way.

It doesn't need to be this way. The Green Party are the alternative. Check us out in this weeks New Statesman and: Join.greenparty.org.uk

“I’m done ceding my brain — the core of all that makes me who I am — to the financial interests of a small number of technology billionaires or the shortsighted conveniences of hyperactive communication styles,” Cal Newport absolutely on the money! calnewport.com/in-defense-o...

And that's a big hard nope from me. I was already on the 'avoid the US bandwagon'. Not a change I want a non deterministic, hallucinating anywhere near landing planes full of hundreds of people thanks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "This is the greatest equipment in the world that we're deploying, and it makes the job of the air traffic controller that much easier. We're gonna use AI tools."

I'm sorry but I really struggle to understand shit like this. Amazon invest in Anthropic who agree to buy Amazon chips. It's all feels very you scratch my back I'll scratch yours to make all of our numbers look better. Shareholder value at all costs right! As long as the line goes up all is good.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 5mo ago

The investment is the latest example of circular financing during the AI boom—the practice of tech companies investing in AI startups to help the latter buy products or services from the original investors.

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 5mo ago

The investment is the latest example of circular financing during the AI boom—the practice of tech companies investing in AI startups to help the latter buy products or services from the original investors.

It's a wild world when Trump can end up being the saviour of renewable energy. Not intentionally of course 😂 Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p...

Heading to the AWS London Summit tomorrow? I'll see you there! I'm giving a talk about how to actual understand AI applications in production alongside Virgin Atlantic. If you want to catch up my DM's are always open. Send me a message, and let's chat. #aws #awslondonsummit #serverless #ai

12factor !

James Eastham@jameseastham.co.uk · 5mo ago

@scottgerring.com and me chat a lot about code quality, code structure, and generally the 'craft' of software development. Which you could argue might be being lost a little bit... But once you've got that beautiful piece of software, how do you actually ship it somewhere? youtu.be/73u4boYBcGM

Microsoft: "We are adding Copilot AI to all our products, and if that means building datacenters that will consume more power than a small city, that's the price we all have to pay." Also Microsoft: "Whoa there skippy! Showing SECONDS in your system tray clock uses more power! You sure about this?"

So what they're saying is they can be automated and should be let go for cost efficiencies.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Meta is building a AI-powered Mark Zuckerberg avatar to give employees guidance and feedback. At Block, Jack Dorsey believes an "intelligence layer" will eliminate the need for any managers between himself and 6,000 staff. Both CEOs are envisioning the same kind of omnipresence and control.

How often have you joined a new team or worked with someone more experienced and they've said "Just use a ......" Just use a queue. Just use an outbox. Oh, for that you just need to use the saga pattern. Fear not, I've got your back. Packaged up as a nice interactive website. justuseaqueue.com