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Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com · Oct 27
Hello 🦋

Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed!

go.bsky.app/U1hZhum
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I think I want to attend that ONE :)
edjgeek.bsky.social Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 17h
Here is some Friday pre:Invent fun... I am doing a session on Wednesday that is NOT in the catalog, but it will be. You will NOT want to miss this. Look for me - 10:30 AM (Vegas Time) In the Mandalay Bay.
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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lukehedger.dev
Finally! We can programmatically get a set of IAM permission needed for an AWS API call

aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
AWS Service Reference Information now supports SDK Operation to Action mapping - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Service Reference Information now supports SDK Operation to Action mapping
aws.amazon.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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migue.bsky.social
Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects xavierleroy.org/control-stru...
Control structures in programming languages
Xavier Leroy
xavierleroy.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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It’s unbelievable how much of an impact LLMs have on my daily work. I‘m definitely 10x more productive and the quality of my work also improved as these tools help me to reduce my deficiencies. Nope, they don’t replace thinking (yet), but all the undifferentiated things which slow down productivity.
September 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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quinnypig.com
Today's AWS isn't the AWS of even 2020.

www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong
One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old
www.lastweekinaws.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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jub0bs.com
We may still get a generified version of errors.As in #golang's standard library! 🤞

github.com/golang/go/is...
proposal: errors: As with type parameters · Issue #51945 · golang/go
Currently in 1.18 and before, when using the errors.As method, an error type you would like to write into must be predeclared before calling the function. For example: var myErr *MyCustomError if e...
github.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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crawshaw.io
Use TouchID for sudo on macOS:
- cd /etc/pam.d && cp sudo_local.template sudo_local
- uncomment the line in sudo_local
August 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
embano1.mgasch.com
Nice, more management events. In EventBridge (receiving CloudTrail events), we call those non-mutating events which customers and partners use to subscribe, filter and quickly take action. Common use cases (obviously) threat detection (S3 bucket scans anyone?) and identifying noisy polling code.
August 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Michael Gasch
natefinch.bsky.social
I think *most* errors should default to returning a "safe" error message that doesn't include any raw input data or sensitive data about the host system, and then add an optional field/method that has more detailed info that might be sensitive (likely only used during debugging).
August 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
embano1.mgasch.com
arXiv Daily: We have a chat service that works over DNS so you can LLM on a flight without paying

And of course it works 😆
August 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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crawshaw.io
An example of agent-assisted-programming going wrong: sketch.dev/blog/our-fir...
Our first outage from LLM-written code
Postmortem of our first service outage caused by LLMs.
sketch.dev
July 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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dominiktornow.bsky.social
My take on Event Sourcing

> Event Sourcing to build an application

Hell no

> Event Sourcing to build a platform

Begrudgingly, yes

bsky.app/profile/luke...
lukehedger.dev Luke Hedger @lukehedger.dev · Jul 29
Do you like event sourcing?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YGsLVB/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Expert, use it all the time
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YGsLVB/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Part-time user, learning the ropes
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YGsLVB/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Would like to use but don’t know where to start
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YGsLVB/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Not interested, next question

📊 Show results
July 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reposted by Michael Gasch
mnapoli.bsky.social
Brilliant! SQS adds "Fair Queues"
Perfect for multi-tenant systems to prevent one tenant from hogging the queue for everyone else.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/compu...
July 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Reposted by Michael Gasch
lucvandonkersgoed.com
Here we go:

- S3 Vectors: aws-news.com/article/2025...

- EventBridge Logging: aws-news.com/article/2025...

- New Free plan: aws-news.com/article/2025...

- S3 Metadata for existing objects: aws-news.com/article/2025...
Announcing Amazon S3 Vectors (Preview)—First cloud object storage with native support for storing and querying vectors
Amazon S3 Vectors introduces a purpose-built, cost-optimized cloud storage solution that natively supports storing and querying vectors, enabling more efficien...
aws-news.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Reposted by Michael Gasch
dominiktornow.bsky.social
Just got word from Manning: Think Distributed Systems is moving to production

✔️ Copy
✔️ Graphics
✔️ Typesetting

The last steps before pages turn into print

www.manning.com/books/think-...
Think Distributed Systems - Dominik Tornow
Reason confidently about distributed systems. All modern software is distributed. Let’s say that again—all modern software is distributed. Whether you’re building mobile utilities, microservices, or ...
www.manning.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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quinnypig.com
“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!”

Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.

Sit down.

www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used ...
www.duckbillgroup.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Michael Gasch
julianwood.com
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July 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
embano1.mgasch.com
„Gemini CLI is awesome! But only when you make Claude Code use it as its bitch.“ 😆

www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCod...
Gemini CLI is awesome! But only when you make Claude Code use it as its bitch.
www.reddit.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
embano1.mgasch.com
💯

Best conference 🎤🫳
dominiktornow.bsky.social Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social · Jun 23
Still buzzing from Systems Distributed '25

Every talk, every chat, every moment was exceptional. From start to finish, the best conference I've ever attended

Massive thanks to the speakers, the attendees, and the team at @tigerbeetle.com for making this event unforgettable
June 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Lots of cool innovation happening in the area of logs(tructured systems) #LazyLog #SpecLog #SD25
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Fantastic insight by @hillelwayne.com #SD25
June 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
embano1.mgasch.com
Only at #SD25

Just.BRILLIANT!
June 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
embano1.mgasch.com
Every day, we wake up with horrible news what humans are capable of doing.

So, it’s easy to miss the MIND BENDING research, understanding the fundamentals of our universe, and the innovation coming out of this for society.

Thank you, Thea. MUST WATCH talk #SD25
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
embano1.mgasch.com
Three talks in, and the key theme this year seems to be „Simplicity“ (reminds me of @werner.social‘s last re:Invent talk about #Simplexity)

Couldn’t agree more 👍

#SD25
June 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
embano1.mgasch.com
As always, highly inspirational and insightful talk by @dominiktornow.bsky.social

And thx for including and calling out one of my favorite papers 🙏

His presentation skills are TED talk level 🤯
June 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM