Sara Gerion
@sarutule.bsky.social
Principal solutions architect at AWS & Co-founder at Shesharp
Someone from Google please fix Google Maps in the Netherlands 🚲 youtu.be/csHdwHTteOw
Why I don't use Google Maps in Amsterdam
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AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock. If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense. And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...
If you are going to AWS re:Invent this year, you can join this session exactly on this topic 👇🏻
AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock. If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense. And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...
When has the tech industry become so hostile to interns/new grads/early-career engineers? I post that there's finally some good news of a *few* (not many!) companies hiring interns/juniors and the response is universally negative So: what happens when we stop hiring young ppl?
Free startup idea: mobile app that makes you register your own eyeshadows and help you find make-up looks for inspiration.
One of the perks of my job is to work closely with amazing tech professionals working for these companies (AWS customers).
I keep observing how a bunch of large companies have *really* smart engineers doing *really* complex+challenging+interesting work and... no one knows about it outside. I only get to know about it by chance. Sometimes it's the PR policies stopping talk about this, but more often:
This will come across as super biased but I swear I'm using Amazon Q to write tests for a serverless workload (step functions) and it's amazing like water in the desert. I wish I had Q as a customer 6 years ago 😭♥️
Entrepreneurs: I wish you success with your business and public outreach. But please drop the fake podcast videos as a way to establish your personal brand online. They are cringe 💀💀💀
Am I the only one who didn't know that some TV shows have a weekly podcast for episodes commentary?
That moment when you finally go to the bike shop to fix your flat tyre… and it turns out the problem was just a loose valve 🤣🤦🏻♀️
The vast majority of MCP servers today aren't actually servers 😱 They run as a child process and communicate over stdio, a bit awkward for distributed systems trying to use MCP. Backend apps can now run existing stdio MCP servers in Lambda functions with this new library: github.com/awslabs/run-...
I'll be missing the AWS Summit Amsterdam this year ❤️ I hope I'll be back next year. aws.amazon.com/events/summi...
AWS Summit Amsterdam 2025
Foster continuous innovation, gain new skills, and network with peers at AWS Summit Amsterdam.
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Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone buff.ly/004Ksnw #AWS #Storage #FinOps
Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone | Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its…
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Booking.com's ad-tech team ✨reduced costs by 90%✨ by developing an in-house, on-demand creative overlay solution using an AWS serverless architecture! aws.amazon.com/solutions/ca...
Generating Dynamic Ads in Under 1 Second Using AWS Lambda with Booking.com | Case Study | AWS
Learn how online travel agency Booking.com built an in-house on-demand creative overlay solution using AWS serverless solutions.
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I cannot believe we are getting Severance, The White Lotus, The Last of Us, and Andor one after another.
ANDOR Season 2 premieres in 20 days!
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I love driving in the Netherlands. But the Amsterdam city center? Not so much!
Hot take: promotion documents should be accessible to all employees within the company.
I missed the White Lotus' woo hoo intro song, but the new one is growing on me.
Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement. Psychological safety REQUIRES: * disagreement and debate * setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them * telling people things they don't want to hear * courage, from the bottom up * humility, from the top down
Controversial take: teams that never argue are often the most dysfunctional ones. Here's why your team should be fighting more. terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/w...
Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world. As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS. It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️
This was a great read.
From one of my favorite posts of all time: "It is impossible to foster a psychologically safe culture if persistent underperformance goes unaddressed. Psychologically safe culture is not centered around being nice, it is centered around being fair" blog.danielna.com/vulnerabilit...
Super excited to share the stage with my friend @theburningmonk.com at #AWSSummit Amsterdam! 🎉 Yan is a serverless genius, and I always learn so much from him. Get ready for some serious #serverless insights in our session! See you there on April 16! go.aws/4kOzjvE