I wrote about invisible engineering for @ComputerWeekly 's 60th anniversary.
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Mandatory reading!
I just published a manifesto for all the developers out there who use an AI coding tool, but feel like they're not shipping much faster
I wrote 10 principles for changing how you build software with AI, based on what I've seen work for teams across Amazon
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Since launch I've been spending time with Kiro Crew, and its memory system is what holds my attention. What it keeps, what it compresses, what it lets go. Our engineers started from pure engineering constraints and landed where evolution did long ago: the brain. allthingsdistributed.com/202…
Today we're launching one of the most exciting ground up innovations in the agent landscape: Kiro Crew! What started as a side project inside @amazon (known as Meshclaw) grew into something tens of thousands of builders across the company relied on daily. It's now open source for everyone.
@kirodotdev Crew is a persistent, self-evolving workspace that keeps work moving, online or off. It's built for engineering work that goes beyond a single chat session, and spans repos, tools, and days. Kiro Crew remembers your project context and history across sessions, turns your corrections into durable lessons and reusable skills, and keeps recurring jobs running on schedules you set. Devs can run several efforts in parallel or hand work to subagents that report back, so nothing waits in line.
Hundreds of contributors shared feedback with us, helping make this launch possible. See how you can build your crew: kiro.dev/crew/
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Werner Vogels retweeted
Honored to be named to @TIME's 2026 TIME100 AI list. This one belongs to our customers and the teams at @awscloud. Still early.
AWS CEO @MattSGarman has been named to @TIME’s 2026 TIME100 AI list. Congratulations, Matt. go.aws/4gFhle3
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There are mashups that are kind of OK. And then there the one's beyond anything. Please turn up your headphones to High. piped.video/watch?v=-R0eNs3x…
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Zak van der Merwe has spent 14 years building control planes at AWS. His blog is a candid look at what happens when your bookkeeping layer has to keep up with the scale of the cloud, and why some of the most interesting problems in distributed systems often hide in the most "boring" parts. allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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A excellent conversation with @clare_liguori. She really is in the trenches on developers support for Agents and on Kiro.
I sat down with Thomas Betts on the @InfoQ podcast to talk about what it takes to go from demo to production agent:
- why more if statements make your agent worse
- how to achieve high accuracy and low cost with small models and just-in-time guidance
- what observability means when every hop is inside the agent
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If only I was looking for another job...
We're hiring a Research Engineer at @Arsenal ⚽🔴⚪ to work directly with our Men's First Team!
We're building state-of-the-art AI models for the football domain. This role will focus on building the application layer for our research to advance coaching and analysis workflows.
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Absolutely worth a read if you are into modern, large-scale, systems design: Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.13276
And my blog post about it here: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/1…
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I am not a big fan of doing this client-side, for a whole slew of reasons, but this is impressive engineering by the @Zalando team. I like the "lessons learned" they conclude with. engineering.zalando.com/post…
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Two-pizza culture was never about feeding hungry engineers. It was about ownership, speed, and not being bogged down by bureaucracy. Working backwards from the customer and putting pen to paper have always been our way of forcing clarity of thought. But the industry is changing, and it’s time to reconsider how we bring products to live. Read more: allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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It was a disgrace. Morocco deserved to win, as the Dutch played not to lose. With a depleted midfield, there was no feeding of the forwards. If you have 9 Premier League players in the starting 11 you would expect they could handle a physical playing opponent better. No guts, no glory...
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Werner Vogels retweeted
20 years ago, Dr. Werner Vogels almost hung up on Amazon.
"It's just a bookstore. How hard can it be?"
He went anyway. And realized AWS engineers were solving—in *production*—problems academia was still debating on whiteboards.
That culture never changed. 🧵
A hypervisor bottleneck? Gone.
Time sync in distributed systems? A problem the field said was unsolvable. Now it's invisible infrastructure millions rely on.
Today? AI. How do you build trust into an agent that actually does what you expect?
The hardest problems are always the ones no one sees being solved.
Read more stories from Dr. Vogels: go.aws/4vxcoKx
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I had great respect for @om. We had many deep conversations in the early days of Cloud Computing, on stage as well as in private. The most fond memories I have was how he hard pushed @gregmatter and me in public, and we had so much fun with it.
His writings were filled with superb insights, which will be dearly missed. RIP Om 💔
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"The verification bottleneck is more important than ever."
Our goals here are ambitious! Our hope is to make formal methods as pervasively useful of a tool for building software as sophisticated type systems are for us today.
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if I am less responsive the coming three weeks, it is because I am out and about with the ladies and lads collecting silverware throughout Europe. #Londonisred
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The best teams solve problems nobody notices. Ravi Nagayach, Prashant Singh, Kshitij Gupta, and the Lambda networking team have been doing exactly that for about a decade. Read their story here: allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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I have two tickets for "Paddington the musical" for tonight at 7m at the Savoy Theatre in London. I cant make it. Anyonese else a paddington fan? No costs. Just a picture of you in the theatre so I know you are not a scalper. FCFS.
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For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's something broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a filesystem—no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. @andywarfield tells the full story, including the "filerectories" that almost made the cut. allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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