Julian Wood
julianwood.com
Julian Wood
@julianwood.com
Head often in the clouds, hopefully grounded in reality. Helping people love #serverless @AWSCloud.
Merry Christmas all! Enjoy the time with people you love. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that.

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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵

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#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python
Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle
After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...
dev.to
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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@julianwood.com& Olaf Molenveld dive into modern CI/CD challenges: pipeline optimization, platform teams, AI-powered DevOps, and why your deployment factory needs as much care as your code. Watch now!
CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/417 Olaf Molenveld - Technology Advisor at CircleCI…
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December 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This will be great!
It was so much fun deep diving on AWS Lambda durable functions with @embano1.mgasch.com at this year's re:Invent! And now we are doing it again and YOU get to ask questions! Join us tomorrow for "Serverless Office Hours | AWS Lambda durable functions". Watch us at twitch.tv/aws at 11 AM Pacific.
December 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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New course alert 🎉

It's taken me over 2 years of creating courses to finally go back to my roots.

Want to learn how to build .NET apps on #AWS? This is the course for you. In it, you'll learn about the core services you need to care about to build on AWS.

#dotnet

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December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Wow! 3k views in just one day - couldn’t be more happy with @edjgeek.bsky.social and my first deep dive on AWS Lambda durable functions at #reinvent2025

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - [NEW LAUNCH] Deep Dive on AWS Lambda durable functions (CNS380)
YouTube video by AWS Events
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December 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Back from reinvent and reflecting on an awesome time connecting with so many people. Thanks to everyone who came and connected, watched
sessions, asked questions, had opinions, enjoyed learning. An inspiring week for developers.
December 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Loved talking about Best Practices for Serverless Developers at re:Invent!
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Hey #serverless developers I hope to see you at @awscloudconcept.bsky.social re:Invent next week. If you are doing the "Road to re:Invent hackathon" (s12d.com/rtri), buckle up, I'll be one of your hosts! If you love serverless, find @julianwood.com or myself to get one of these!
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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We made the announcement, now come and join Archana Srikanta and me as we dive into the details of Lambda Managed Instances in our session CNS382 on Thursday afternoon. The event is now available in the session catalog, so register now! buff.ly/0fZNk9k #serverless #reinvent #awslambda
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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FYI – We’re rounding up the most exciting and impactful announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 here:

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#AWS #News #AWSreInvent #reInvent
Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 | Amazon Web Services
Discover our most impactful innovations across analytics, AI, compute, containers, security, and more throughout the conference week.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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🚀 AWS just announced Lambda Managed Instances, a new capability that lets you run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 compute while preserving the #serverless programming and operational models.

Effectively, run AWS Lambda functions on EC2 instances of your choice in your own account!
Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | Amazon Web Services
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
🚀 🆕 The AWS Lambda roadmap is now open and on GitHub!
See what we're working on, researching, and planning. Provide feedback, collaborate on ideas!
s12d.com/lambda-roadmap
GitHub - aws/aws-lambda-roadmap
Contribute to aws/aws-lambda-roadmap development by creating an account on GitHub.
s12d.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🚀 🆕 The AWS Lambda roadmap is now open and on GitHub!

See what we're working on, researching, and planning. Provide feedback, collaborate on ideas!
s12d.com/lambda-roadmap
GitHub - aws/aws-lambda-roadmap
Contribute to aws/aws-lambda-roadmap development by creating an account on GitHub.
s12d.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Another fun pre:Invent release. This has been a highly requested feature, it's finally out! Amazon API Gateway Portals! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
Improve API discoverability with the new Amazon API Gateway Portal | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we will show how you can use the new portal feature to create customizable portals with enhanced security features in minutes, with APIs from multiple accounts, without managing any infr...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The Lambda Runtime for Swift now supports tenant isolation mode.

Release notes : github.com/awslabs/s...
Example : github.com/awslabs/s...

#swiftlang #lambda #serverless #cloud #aws
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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@julianwood.com talks with @holdenkarau.com about turning a decade of Apache Spark expertise into an AI tool that fights insurance denials. fighthealthinsurance.com is live and free. The business model? Step one ✅ Step two ❓ Step three: profit 🤷
From Apache Spark to Fighting Health Insurance Denials • Holden Karau & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/410 Holden Karau - Co-Founder at Fight Health…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Kiro is now generally available.

Stop the vibe and start spec-driven development :-)

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November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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AWS Lambda provisioned mode for SQS is here! Same principle as provisioned mode for Kafka, but 20x (!) cheaper - making it a viable solution for high-volume, near-realtime event processing.

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AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
AWS Lambda now supports provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping, enabling 3x faster scaling and 16x higher concurrency with dedicated polling resources f...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Swift developers ?
Deploy your Swift backend code on AWS Lambda. No server or container to manage. Automatic scaling. Sleep well at night.

I was invited by @julianwood.com to talk about Swift on Lambda

Watch it here 👇

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Learn how to use the open-source Swift AWS Lambda Runtime to write Lambda functions using the Swift programming language. Sebastien Stormacq joins Julian Wood to show how you can use Swift as a a safe and fast programming language in Lambda. Discover how Swift has evolved beyond its origins as a language for Apple platforms. Swift’s combination of type safety, predictable performance, and developer-friendly syntax makes it an appealing option for backend services where reliability, maintainability, and scalability matter most. We are also available to answer any of your serverless questions. Host: Julian Wood - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Serverless: https://x.com/julian_wood https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood/ Guest: Sebastien Stormacq - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienstormacq/ https://bsky.app/profile/sebsto.bsky.social Stream Links: Swift AWS Lambda Runtime: https://github.com/awslabs/swift-aws-lambda-runtime SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel SERVERLESS OFFICE HOURS Playlist: https://s12d.com/soh-youtube A weekly live office hours to learn about building serverless applications. We cover a separate topic each week, including what's new with serverless, deep dives into feature launches and best practices, and explorations of real-world usecases. Join us live to ask us anything you want about serverless technologies and applications. https://ServerlessLand.com Your resource for learning about serverless technology. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully managed serverless architecture.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Welcome to the AWS Heroes program Dimple, Rola, and Vivek! Hope to see you at Re:Invent!

aws-news.com/article/2025...
Introducing Our Final AWS Heroes of 2025
AWS announces three new AWS Heroes for 2025 who are advancing cloud education, mentoring diverse communities, and pioneering enterprise AI solutions globally.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🚀 📢 Want to run Swift in AWS Lambda?
Fast + type safety + predictable performance + dev-friendly syntax!

📺 Join Serverless Office Hours Today with @sebsto.bsky.social at 11AM PT. 7PM UK, 8PM CET.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM