The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
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Chris Romeo and Robert Hurlbut dig into the tips, tricks, projects, and tactics that make various application security professionals successful. They cover all facets of application security, from threat modeling and OWASP to DevOps+security and security champions. They approach these stories in an educational light, explaining the details in a way those new to the discipline can understand. Chris Romeo is the CEO of Devici and a General Partner at Kerr Ventures, and Robert Hurlbut is a Prin ...
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2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems & Platform Products
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55:11In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Lk6SsFSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news a…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure Optimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for…
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The Latest in OpenJDK and JCP Expert Group: Insights with Simon Ritter
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38:45In this episode, Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO at Azul, sat down with podcast host Michael Redlich, Lead Editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, and discussed the latest features in OpenJDK and Simon’s experiences serving on the JCP Expert Group since JDK 9. OpenJDK topics included: the six-month release cycle, Generational Shenandoah, JDK Flight Recorder, P…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols Building national foundation models New report: Cloud “fundamental” for European nati…
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Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework
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33:07Will McGugan, the maker of Textual and Rich frameworks, speaks about the reasoning of developing the two two libraries and the lesson learned. Also, he shares light on Toad, his current project, which he envisions being a more visually appealing way of interacting with agentic LLMs through command line. Read a transcript of this interview: https://…
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Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn
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32:50QCon AI New York Chair Wes Reisz talks with LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri about enabling AI agents at enterprise scale. They discuss how platform teams orchestrate secure, multi-agentic systems, the role of MCP, the use of foreground and background agents, improving developer experience, and reducing toil.Read a transcript of this …
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview) Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt…
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Bridging the Open Source Gap: From Funding Paradoxes to Digital Sovereignty
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26:13Gabriele Columbro, managing director of the Linux Foundation Europe, discusses the differences in the open-source landscape between Europe, China and the US. Stressing that the open-source landscape is the last favorable ground for global innovation in the current geo-political landscape.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4rFIhPuSu…
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GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering
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46:31In this episode, QCon AI New York 2025 Chair Wes Reisz speaks with Reken CEO and Google Trust & Safety founder Shuman Ghosemajumder about the erosion of digital trust. They explore how deepfakes and automated social engineering are scaling cybercrime. Shuman argues defenders must move beyond default trust, utilizing behavioral telemetry and game th…
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Welcome to re:Invent, Where the Roadmap Is Made Up and the Quotas Don't Matter
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6:30AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links: Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations Introducing guidelines for network scanning Practical implementation conside…
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Looking for Root Causes is a False Path: A Conversation with David Blank-Edelman
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50:02In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with David Blank-Edelman about the relationship between software architecture and site reliability engineering. Site reliability engineering can give architecture vital feedback about how the system actually behaves in production. Architects and designers can then learn from their failures to improve their abil…
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How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework
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31:11Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on multi-year worth of data. He shares insights into why Apache Spark was the choice for creating such a system and how it fits in the "traditional" engineering practices.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4o08NjDSubscribe to t…
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From Blackwell Ultra to "aws login": Chaos Reigns at Every Layer
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9:49AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace Network Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets Accelerate infrastructure development with AW…
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Cloud Security Challenges in the AI Era - How Running Containers and Inference Weaken Your System
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31:57Marina Moore, a security researcher and the co-chair of the security and compliance TAG of CNCF, shares her concerns about the security vulnerabilities of containers. She explains where the issues originate, providing solutions and discussing alternative routes to using micro-VMs rather than containers. Additionally, she highlights the risks associ…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources AWS Lambda networking over IPv6 AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts Amazon Braket Notebook Environments Now Support CUDA-Q Natively Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 tim…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links: AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS Services AWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloads Prompt engineering with PartyRock: A guide for educators New whitepaper available – AI for Security and Security for AI: Navigating Opportuniti…
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Architecture Should Model the World as It Really Is: A Conversation with Randy Shoup
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51:15In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Randy Shoup about how to evolve your software after a software failure, and how to improve the resilience of your software by modeling transient states using events and workflows.Software failure is inevitable, but learning from failure, including making the necessary changes to organizational culture can…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 3rd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to production New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance Processing Amazon S3 objects at scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map S3 prefix What’s the difference between AWS ParallelClu…
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If You Can’t Test It, Don’t Deploy It: The New Rule of AI Development?
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22:50Magdalena Picariello reframes how we think about AI, moving the conversation from algorithms and metrics to business impact and outcomes. She champions evaluation systems that don't just measure accuracy but also demonstrate real-world business value, and advocates for iterative development with continuous feedback to build optimal applications.Rea…
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Brad Geesaman - Redefining AppSec with AI: Shrinking Toil, Expanding Impact - How LLMs are able to reduce toil in triage-heavy AppSec workflows
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42:19Brad Geesaman, Principal Security Engineer at Ghost, joins the podcast today to explore how AI and large language models are transforming the world of application security. The discussion starts with the concept of "toil"—the repetitive, exhausting work that drains AppSec teams as they struggle to keep up with mountains of security findings and ale…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Streamline in-place application upgrades with Amazon VPC Lattice Build a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2 - Overview and best practices of multithreaded replication in Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL AWS anno…
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Effective Error Handling: A Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
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37:47Jenish Shah, a back-end engineer focused on distributed systems at Netflix, provides more insights on how to handle failures in a distributed systems setup. He shares details on how he built a library that handles exceptions uniformly, regardless of the underlying communication protocol. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/3JpmIBnSub…
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Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2025
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50:46In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report creation process. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technol…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced Customization AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region AWS SAM CLI adds Finch support, expanding local development tool options for serverless applications Simplified mo…
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OWASP Candidate Debate - 2025 Edition
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1:08:09In this special episode of the Application Security Podcast we meet nine of the OWASP Board of Directors candidates. Each candidate discusses their unique qualifications, experiences, and vision for OWASP's future. Topics include enhancing OWASP's impact, improving outreach and education, securing funding, and engaging local chapters. Don't miss th…
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 13th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links: Introducing AWS Pricing Capabilities in Amazon Q Developer: Ask Questions, Get Instant Cost Insights Amazon Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative Boundaries Part 6: Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA: the migration methodology Amazon…
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