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Building a Centaur Chess App with AgentCore Runtime and Strands Agents
In 1998, Garry Kasparov proposed a new format: human players paired with computer assistance. He called it "Advanced Chess," though the community sett

Safe AI Development with Claude Code Permission Controls
Introduction You've seen how generative AI can automate boilerplate setup and accelerate project work to 80-90% completion, leaving you to focus on th

Supercharge yourself with your own team of agents
Since entering the world of creating agents, one of the most powerful patterns being used is the supervisor, also commonly referred to as the orchestr

Let's Build an Agent on AWS!
AWS is going all-in on AI, and they're making it easier than ever to build agents in their ecosystem. They've recently released two key pieces: Amazon

AWS AI Tooling: The Cheat Sheet Nobody Asked For (But Everyone Needs)
TL;DR: AWS offers numerous AI services, making it challenging to keep them all straight. This is your no-nonsense reference for actually figuring out

Robots Are Taking Our Jobs: Understanding AI Agents
TLDR: Agents are AI that don't stop at giving advice - they actually do the work. They try things, use tools, check results, and keep going until done

Stop Copy-Pasting Into ChatGPT: How MCP Servers Actually Solve the Context Problem
TLDR: MCP servers let your AI agents directly access your company's data and tools. No more copy-paste, no more context switching. Just ask questions,

Moving Past the AI Hype (Introducing MCP)
In this post, I’ll cut through the noise surrounding Generative AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), explain the practical changes on the horizon,

Radical Simplicity in Cloud Architecture
For a long time, both professionally with clients in my consulting work and in the AWS community, I've been evangelizing the "serverless" paradigm shi

The honeymoon is over
So our first year as a company went well. Great actually. Fantastic numbers, high spirits, and an everlasting startup feeling. That all changed early

How I built a Multiplayer App in 3 days
I thought it was time to create a follow up of my previous post Get your idea deployed to prod already. In the post I detail how you can quickly boots

A great place to quit
Ok the title might be alarming but hear me out. There are a plethora of different awards for “Swedens best employer” or best/good/great place to work

Shared CloudFront Distribution Cache Policy with SST
If you're sitting in a growing team and working with SST it's highly likely that you're working with personal staging environments. You might even use

Testing Individual StepFunction States
AWS StepFunctions is a fantastic service for orchestrating complex workflows. But testing StepFunctions has always been... tricky. You could execute t

Daddy, look what I made
I thought I’d mix it up a bit and add another flavour to the otherwise technical content that is presented here. This blog post will focus on my exper

Building an IoT-powered Fridge
Imagine the scenario: guests are about to arrive, and you realize your fridge is running low on beer. Your BoA (Beverage on Arrival) SLA is in danger,

Get your idea deployed to prod already
You know that nifty idea you've been thinking about? The website that would revolutionize how you rule a small country/go grocery shopping? Whatever y

Unlocking Scalability: Harnessing the Power of SQS and Lambda Integration
AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) provides a reliable and scalable messaging solution, while AWS Lambda offers serverless computing capabilities. Combini

Using AppConfig Feature Flags with Organization Units
AWS AppConfig is a tool under AWS Systems Manager which handles, you guessed it, configurations of your applications. One of the major features are Fe

💸 How to save thousands of dollars on AWS WAF
AWS WAF, the managed Web Application Firewall, is a commonly used service to secure APIs, load balancers, and applications. But because of how the pri