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Mika Majakorpi
@mika.majakorpi.net
Technology strategy, cloud, platform engineering, event-driven architecture
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AWS Partner Summit 2025 kicking off! I and @mika.majakorpi.net representing!
June 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Technology is evolving to tackle humanity's hardest problems. From clean energy innovations and disaster preparedness to tools to fight disinformation, success now means making a positive impact. Read my tech predictions for 2025 and beyond: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/12/tech...
Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
We've entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. These ar...
www.allthingsdistributed.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Final point: simplify with the microsecond level accurate fundamental building block on EC2 instances: synchronized time
December 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Aurora DSQL as an example of how AWS takes on the complexity and reduces the complexity on the customer side.
December 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
For a true software company, the organization needs to accommodate the architecture
December 5, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Team ownership and agency on the problem they are solving
December 5, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Architecture needs to fit the organization
December 5, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Break complexity into pieces that fit in your head
December 5, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Evolvability examples with S3, the oldest AWS service and how it has added features over time without backwards incompatible changes
December 5, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Six lessons of simplexity
December 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Canva’s modular monolith. Fast time to market and built to scale later
December 5, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Werner talking about complexity and how to recognize and manage it. “Complexity can’t be created or destroyed, only moved somewhere else” #awsreinvent
December 5, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Operations gets the next treatment. Q investigates issues in AWS based on cloudtrail, CloudWatch data for issues and suggests fixes and best practices
December 3, 2024 at 6:14 PM
.Net code transformation from Windows to Linux announced as well as VMware to cloud native architectures. Mainframe too! Yesterday I spoke to qodo.ai at the expo and this was a part of their pitch too. I guess now there’s good competition 😅
Codium is now Qodo | Quality-first AI Coding Platform
Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) offers quality-first AI tools for developers to write, test, and review code directly within their IDE and Git.
qodo.ai
December 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Agents available now for generating unit tests, documentation and code reviews
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Next up is Amazon Q stuff. Does it really work practically now?
December 3, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Andy says we’ll get a speech to speech model for fast conversations and an any-to-any (multi modal) model later too
December 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Nova Canvas image generation model announced as well!

Nova Reel for video generation!
December 3, 2024 at 5:57 PM
How Nova is positioned
December 3, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Amazon Nova frontier model announced 🎉
December 3, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Jassy’s lesson learnt: Cost matters, you need an LLM model specific to your purpose
December 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Andy Jassy shares Amazon GenAI use cases: customer service both with customer data, details page generation for sellers from keywords, inventory management to improve delivery time, robotic sorting in fulfillment centers, Rufus concierge commerce chatbot, Alexa GenAI agents coming up and many more
December 3, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Automated reasoning checks to avoid hallucinations in LLM output. Need to look more into this one.
December 3, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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#reInvent
This one is awesome! An active-active distributed architecture, Aurora DSQL ensures strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. All that in a #serverless package.

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Serverless distributed SQL databases with active-active high availability – Amazon Aurora DSQL – AWS
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.
aws.amazon.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Model distillation. Distill a frontier model with prompts to a smaller expert model. Faster and cheaper to run for specific tasks.
December 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM