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Goran Opacic
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#AWS Data Hero and User Group Belgrade @awsugbelgrade leader, CEO of @Estehnet, Databases and Security, deep into #MySQL #Java #Docker and #HTTP since 0.9
AWS Community Day Istanbul kicks off with @serhatcan.bsky.social and Emrah Samdan on stage. 6th edition. Join me today at 1:30pm for AWS Aurora DSQL session
April 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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"🏆 100 Most Watched Talks Of 2024"

That's a really great list of tech talks to watch. Special kudos to @royvanrijn.com for hitting the Top 10 with his session about the One Billion Row Challenge at GOTO!

www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-w...
February 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
ha hahaha haha hahahaha!
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent.

All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"

Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.
January 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
how to fix basketball 🏀? switch 2 and 3 point zones! everything above current 3-point line should be 2-points. everything inside is a 3 point shot. it is harder to get inside than to make shots from half court these days ⛹🏼‍♀️
December 21, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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✨ INTRODUCING ✨ AWS Data Landing Zone (DLZ). The DLZ is a CDK construct designed to accelerate AI and data-related projects. It provides an opinionated Landing Zone, laying the foundation for a multi-account AWS strategy, so you can focus on delivering applications. 🧵

https://datalandingzone.com/
Data Landing Zone
The Data Landing Zone (DLZ) is a CDK Construct designed to create a landing zone tailored for supporting and enabling AI, data-driven, data mesh, and cloud projects.
datalandingzone.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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After 20 years as lead blogger on the #AWS News Blog, I am going to return to my builder roots and spend more time with fewer AWS services. Here's my announcement:

And that's a wrap! - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/an...
And that’s a wrap! | Amazon Web Services
After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to ...
aws.amazon.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:53 PM
thank God I don’t have the latest iphone
December 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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“We are at a moment in the history of the web in which the link itself – the countless connections made by website creators, the endless tapestry of ideas woven together throughout the web – is in danger of going extinct.”

aeon.co/essays/when-...
When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays
In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum
aeon.co
December 9, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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My second blog post on Aurora DSQL, with a deep dive on how reads work: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...
DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
December 4, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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A lot of folks are starting to talk about o11y 2.0 and how it's different -- dev vs ops, pillars vs log events, etc. Which is cool But there is only ONE core distinction between 1.0 and 2.0; everything else is a consequence.

http://dlvr.it/TGVl0h
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0
In this article, Charity Majors goes over the simple, technical distinction between observability 1.0 and observability 2.0.
dlvr.it
November 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
this is the AI I was looking for
Announcing Amazon EKS Auto Mode

AWS launched EKS Auto Mode, automating Kubernetes cluster management. It simplifies operations, improves performance/security, optimizes costs, and handles infrastructure. Available in most regions for clusters running Kubernetes 1.29+. Pay-as-you-go pricing.
December 1, 2024 at 11:10 PM
feeling bad about the guy who invented this blue power on off mechanism that enabled macs in the cloud. apple being assholes once again. it is not by mistake, it is literally a brainf*ck like that notch thing we have to watch everyday
November 1, 2024 at 7:13 AM
AI sucks on bluesky too
October 27, 2024 at 10:33 PM