TIL web neural network API, an emerging web standard for building in-browser AI apps that lets you use those new NPUs in phones and laptops. w3.org/TR/webnn
Yan Cui
@theburningmonk.com
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I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
I've been diving into Neon and I like what I see! Here's how you can use Neon with ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development. theburningmonk.com/2025/04/how-...
How to use Neon and ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development
Understand the value of ephemeral environments, and how you can use Neon and ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development
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Saying "coding is dead" is missing the point. Coding isn’t just about producing code, it’s also a way of thinking. It teaches us structure, systems thinking, abstractions and problem decomposition. If you don’t learn those skills, AI won’t make you productive, it’ll make you dependent.
I finally binged The Orville, it was time well spent, especially seasons 2 and 3! So high on Star Trek nostalgia right now 😅
I recently spoke with Waldemar Hummer to find out what's new in LocalStack v4 - e.g. visualize and trace event-driven arch end-to-end, or create snapshots of your system. It's crazy how fast they are innovating! youtu.be/vVUBnXD6eto
Introducing LocalStack v4
YouTube video by Master AWS with Yan
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Through chaos experiments, the Lambda team reduced response time to an AZ outage by 90%! 🤯
"Lambdaliths have slower cold starts" "Lambdaliths have fewer cold starts" Both can be true, but neither is entirely correct. It depends on several factors. In my new post, I explain these nuances so you can make a better choice. theburningmonk.com/2025/03/the-...
The pros and cons of Lambdalith
Learn about lambdalith and how it helps you build serverless APIs with AWS Lambda, as well as its pros and cons.
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I spoke with Khawajas Shams about building large-scale (think millions of TPS) multi-tenant systems. We talked about pros & cons of cell-based architectures, how it reduces the blast radius, and techniques for building high-throughput systems e.g. core pinning www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jte...
How to Build a Multi-Tenant System (Best Practices)
YouTube video by Master AWS with Yan
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Thank you to everyone who attended my talk at the Serverless London meetup last night 🙏 Here are my slides for those who couldn't make it. You can try Evolua for free at evolua.io. We'd appreciate your feedback! speakerdeck.com/theburningmo...
How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
Slides for my talk at the Serverless London meetup on 12-Feb-2025
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New post: How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock My biggest lesson learnt is that, at least for our use case, LLM is the easy part and there's still a lot of "app" in an "AI-powered app"!
How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
Explore the high-level architecture of Evolua, an AI code reviewer built with Bedrock and serverless technologies, and what we learnt
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Wiz found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data like chat history 🤦♂️ www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log str...
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I spoke with the co-founder of @hookdeck.com to find out what it can do, and it's impressive! There is a lot of focus on DX for building Event-Driven Architecture, and EventBridge can learn a lot from them. Have a look for yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmM...
Hookdeck has built a better Developer Experience than EventBridge
YouTube video by Yan Cui
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This is AWESOME!! EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. More details here: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Here's a mindmap of everything we'll cover in my 4-week boot camp starting on Monday. Are we missing anything that one should know for running serverless workloads in production? Detailed curriculum here: productionreadyserverless.com#curriculum
We're back with a new episode of real-world serverless. I spoke with @boyney123.bsky.social about the hard parts of building event-driven architectures and how EventCatalog can help with event documentation, discovery, versioning, visualization and testing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl7...
EventCatalog REVOLUTIONIZES Governance in Event-Driven Architectures | ft. David Boyne
YouTube video by Yan Cui
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Stop wasting money on CORS preflight requests. Here's a quick tip for reducing API Gateway costs. 👇
Confessions of a Big Tech and startups recruiter: with Blake Stockman. Blake has been a tech recruiter for 12 years, working at Google, Meta, Uber, Flexport, Y Combinator and startups. Full episode: • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6... • YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68 (cont'd)
This is still my favourite answer to "What does a software architect do?" Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...
Current status: working on Terraform track for productionreadyserverless.com ✅ Set up TF project & serverless.tf ✅ Support multi-account ✅ REST APIs with API Gateway and Lambda ✅ Testing with ephemeral environments ⃣ Event-Driven Architectures ⃣ Observability & performance
Production-Ready Serverless
Learn BEST PRACTICES for building production-ready serverless applications.
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I'm speaking at AWS Community Day Romania this April, in the beautiful city of Timisoara. Hope to see you there 👋 Their CFP is open until February, so there's still time to submit your talk. More details here: aws-community.ro
You might be paying for unused WAF ACLs that you can't see. Here's what I found in my latest bill. 👇
2024 was the year I got healthy 💪 and got back amongst the community. And it felt great! Here's what I got up to in 2024 and my most popular content: theburningmonk.com/2024/12/year... Wish you all a happy new year and hope to catch you in 2025! Ciao for now 👋
Year in review, 2024
Take a look back at my 2024 - launched 2 MVPs, 33 new articles, 31 public talks, 16 podcasts, 8.9 million LinkedIn impressions, and more.
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I just burned $10,000 on marketing, and it taught me the hardest lesson of my career. I spent $10,000 on an ad agency and only got 3 sign-ups for my workshop, despite months of ad campaigns and plenty of clicks. Yet, 30% of students joined through word of mouth, another 30% through social media.
Do you build mulit-region applications on AWS? Then bookmark this page of AWS services and their multi-region capabilities. repost.aws/articles/AR0...
An eng manager at Netflix once told me that "It'd cost 7x to run Netflix if Netflix ran on Lambda". But what he said next was even more insightful. "But, not everything at Netflix runs at Netflix scale." And that's true for most enterprises!
