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🔥 ANNOUNCING RAVION 🔥 The command center for your cloud infrastructure For startups: the easiest, most powerful way to self-host in your cloud For scaleups: a framework for internal developer platforms Result of 14 months. 1M LoC. Everything we learned from Flightcontrol.
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.@opencode we are paying for openzen but it's completely not working for @abadir_ and we've tried contacting support and team members directly, but there is zero response for many days now. what can we do? 🙏
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Here's Rhys' practical guide to shipping an MCP your users want: - Your MCP should be able to do everything your dashboard can Yes including things like deleting resources. The way to make this practical inside of an agent while not having things be unsafe is to deep link them into your product from inside the MCP - Do not ship lazy loading / codemode inside of your MCP CodeMode is a harness detail. Most harnesses (Claude / Codex / OpenCode) support codemode now, the problem is if you have two codemode MCPs they don't compose nicely (Executor v2 will still support CodeMode, but, will start to default to a transparent tool proxy for better clients) - Ship a search docs / skills tool Agents love these and it helps give them more understanding of your product MCP is getting skills over mcp which will help here in the future - Have a deep link into product tool Let the agent generate a URL that brings them into your product, people still want to use your dashboard and data visualization! They just don't want to click through things - Customization I think this matters less over time, but, you can allow people to select 'toolsets' of things to connect with to clients. Some clients don't support customizing tool selections and then it's also nice to have tool permissions set to the auth token - Let people OAuth from whatever client they want Please stop putting restrictions on which clients can authenticate to MCP servers, your users hate it, it doesn't improve security, all it does is add more friction PostHog and Sentry are my two 'AI native' companies to look at today, they both have an excellent onboarding, MCP / CLI experience, if you need a place to learn from look at them To be honest though, while all the above is helpful just shipping your API spec + CIMD OAuth to it is enough for 99% of agents to have a good experience
When using an MCP: 1. What makes for a great experience? 2. What are examples of good MCP experiences?
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Still running small T3 instances? T8i offers up to 30% better price performance with the same CPU-credit model. Unlimited remains the default, so sustained CPU can add charges. Benchmark before switching. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now on Amazon Bedrock. Sol is aimed at coding and complex tasks. Luna is built for high-volume extraction, summarization and routing. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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Calgary just became a much more attractive EC2 region. M8i and M8i-flex are now available in Canada West. AWS reports up to 15% better price-performance and 20% better overall performance than M7i.
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The Atlantic just made it to September 21 without a hurricane. Last time that happened? 1914. Fay almost ruined it last night. It hit 70 mph. Hurricane strength is 74. Now it’s falling apart, and nothing else is expected for at least a week.
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I've been on a quest lately to reclaim my sanity at work. The latest advancement is a bot that auto-approves and merges low risk PRs with no oversight 😈 swizec.com/blog/we-now-auto-…
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Managing AWS through @Ravion is a real pleasure. In preparation for our EKS deployments, I needed to add another domain name to our API; very simple operation, but touches about 3 different AWS services: 1. ALB 2. ACM 3. Route53 Usually, you need to find the terraform (or your Iac) for each of those and update tfvars (inputs) and run pipelines. Or have your agent go rogue and do all of the changes in AWS CLI, and none gets tracked. With Ravion, single prompt: - Add new domain to API service The agent went its way, figured which modules needs updates, made the changes in ravion.yaml - all done in few minutes. Ravion’s ability to allow discoverability and state management in a single plane of glass is really amazing. Agents do not need to spend tokens trying to discover your infrastructure, then your IaC, then your pipelines structure, everything is discoverable in a single yaml file.
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Get multi-region AWS with Ravion’s out-of-the-box modules. Build once. Deploy the same image across regions. Route traffic with Route 53 latency routing. In your AWS account, via config and CLI for humans and agents. ravion.com/docs/guides/aws/m…
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What are your favorite startup accelerator programs aside from YC?
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Lambda Managed Instances: AWS trying to give Lambda what ECS already does well. Same instinct that gave us Proton and App Runner. Same result.
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ECS deployments on Ravion are now much faster! They no longer wait on the old tasks to shutdown to be marked success. This is enabled by a new feature AWS recently shipped. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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I'm available for contract work or projects 👀 Right now I'm specializing in: Laravel + Inertia work Dashboard/product UI upgrades Agentic workflows, like self-improving software But open to any web-based projects!
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wow, reddit banned me I was contributing to discussions about devops, but apparently you aren’t allowed to exist if you’re a founder
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Lambda MicroVMs are one of the hottest new AWS products for running untrusted and AI-generated code. PrivateLink makes them much easier to use in a private VPC architecture.
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I don't think dashboards are ever going to die. I really like seeing what an agent did and reviewing it. I don't want to abstract everything into a little chat.
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GPT-6 Astra is on Bedrock, but endpoint choice is a data-residency decision. The model supports a 1.05M-token context. In-Region inference is on bedrock-mantle in Oregon; bedrock-runtime uses US or global cross-Region inference.
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I keep iterating on the core @ravion headline/pitch. The latest: The easiest way to use AWS for agents and humans.
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Ravion has launched on @ycombinator!! It's the easiest way to start using AWS and to scale as you grow. ycombinator.com/launches/Tmi…
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Upvotes there appreciated!!
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