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SQS
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Oct 15, 2025
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4 min read
SL#39 - Make Your Serverless Stack Observable—Before It Breaks
Tracing async workflows, debugging across queues, and the metrics that actually matter—an advanced guide for serverless teams.
AWS
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Aug 3, 2025
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7 min read
SL#35 - Building a Serverless ETL Pipeline with AWS Glue: Integrating DynamoDB, S3, and OpenSearch
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service designed to simplify data integration. It automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs by providing a serverless environment, built-in transformation logic, and native integration with other AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.
DDD
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Oct 3, 2024
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12 min read
SL#33 - Understanding the C4 Architecture Model: A Detailed Breakdown
Adapting the C4 Model for Serverless, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
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AWS
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Jun 20, 2026
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8 min read
SL#75 - AWS AI Series (15/30) - Build and Ship Your Own MCP Server on AWS Lambda
Write a custom MCP server with three tools and session memory, deploy it to Lambda behind API Gateway with Streamable HTTP, verify it with the MCP Inspector, and connect it to Claude.
AWS
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Jun 17, 2026
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10 min read
SL#74 - AWS AI Series (14/30) - Nova Act: Script a Browser Agent That Extracts Data and Fills Forms on a Real Site
Build a Python browser agent with the Amazon Nova Act SDK that navigates a site, pulls structured data into typed Python objects, and fills out a form, all driven by natural language. Plan for 60 to 90 minutes if you have used Playwright or Selenium before.
AWS
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Jun 16, 2026
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8 min read
SL#73 - AWS AI Series (13/30) - Multi-Agent Patterns in Strands: Agents-as-Tools, Swarm, and Graph (and When Each Is Wrong)
Build the same research/writer/reviewer pipeline three ways with the Strands Agents SDK, then learn which pattern to actually reach for.
AWS
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Jun 15, 2026
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9 min read
SL#71 - AWS AI Series (12/30) - Agents You Can Audit: Lock an AgentCore Agent Behind JWT Auth and Trace Every Call in CloudWatch
We take a Strands agent on Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, put a Cognito JWT wall in front of it so only authenticated callers get in, and wire OpenTelemetry so every invocation shows up as a traced session in the CloudWatch GenAI Observability dashboard.
AWS
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Jun 14, 2026
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8 min read
SL#70 - AWS AI Series (11/30) - Give Your Agent Hands: Build a Fact-Checker With AgentCore Code Interpreter and Browser
Build an agent that browses a live page for a real number, then writes and runs Python in a sandbox to verify a claim about it. Two AgentCore built-in tools, one Strands agent.
AWS
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Jun 13, 2026
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9 min read
SL#69 - AWS AI Series (10/30) - Turn a Lambda Into MCP Tools Your Agent Can Call With AgentCore Gateway
Build a managed MCP server in front of an AWS Lambda function, expose two tools to a Strands agent without writing protocol code, then add a REST API as a second target.
AWS
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Jun 12, 2026
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9 min read
SL#67 - AWS AI Series (9/30) - Agents That Remember: Persist User Preferences Across Sessions with AgentCore Memory
Build a Strands agent that recalls who the user is and what they like across separate runs, using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory for both the conversation buffer and the long-term preference store. Plan for about 90 minutes if you finished episode 7, two hours if this is your first Strands agent.