Justin Plock

The recording is available and, as expected, it is exceptionally good! It will genuinely ignite (or re-ignite) your enthusiasm for being an engineer! Thank you, @bcantrill.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

I'll make this even more simple: Many (most?) of us in the security engineering world who have taken even a cursory look at this browser would advise colleagues & friends to avoid it at all costs. It's a privacy and product security dumpster fire.

Sabbaticals keep our attrition at bay The only way many tech workers in the US can get a long break is by quitting their job. So lots of them do that every few years, which is partly why the average tenure in our industry is at an atrocio...

A DHH post I agree with. I wish more US employers offered sabbaticals as a benefit.

world.hey.com/dhh/sabbatic...

The Complexity of Simplicity Talk given at TalosCon in Amsterdam on October 17, 2025. Video to come.

Slides for my #taloscon2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/th...

New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore).

Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...

Self hosted Campfire seems like the way to go these days

The best years of your life are ahead of you. Also: don't overthink everything. You really can't control things, not even if you become a billionaire, look how crazy they go trying. Live, do your best day to day, be kind to yourself, and don't put things off hoping for the perfect moment.

Unreasonable Startup founders and the journey into obsessive vision and execution

🍣 Never ordered tamago until Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Apprentice made 200+ before Jiro approved.

Progress depends on unreasonable people. Startups are unreasonable by definition, but beware of becoming a toxic culture!
foundersinthecloud.com/p/unreasonable

Calling all students who are passionate about technology! 🎯

Exciting opportunity: become an AWS Cloud Club Captain and build a community while boosting your skills and creating opportunities for cloud learning on your campus.

Apply now! 👉 go.aws/4p6emhW

Alien Earth S1 E5: Amateur Hour

Text from David Wells ("Recent Economic Changes, and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of wealth and the Well-Being of Society") in 1889 as quoted by Carlota Perez ("Technological Revolutions and Finance Capital") in 2002

GPUs ca. 1875

AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls AWS IAM introduces three new global condition keys (aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, aws:VpceOrgID) to help establish network perimeter controls through VPC endpoints with scalable and granular access management.

AWS IAM introduces three new global condition keys (aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, aws:VpceOrgID) to help establish network perimeter controls through VPC endpoints with scalable and granular access management.

World's first method turns plastic into fuel with 95% efficiency A US-China team has unveiled a one-step method that converts toxic plastic waste into petrol with over 95% efficiency.

Finally, some good news

interestingengineering.com/science/us-c...

The State of Python 2025 | The PyCharm Blog Discover the latest Python trends and predictions backed by a survey of over 30,000 developers.

State of Python 2025 Is Out!

Explore the key trends and actionable ideas from the latest Python Developers Survey, which was conducted jointly by the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains PyCharm and includes insights from over 30,000 developers.

blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/202...

🚀 Dropwizard 4.0.15 has been released! #Java #Dropwizard

Release Notes: https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/releases/tag/v4.0.15

Very cool

A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]

Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and em...

In a new guest post from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineers @nikomatsakis.com and Mark Bowes take us inside Aurora DSQL's development from scaling write operations without two-phase commit, to overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...

This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...

Thanks to AWS's Sergey Melnik, as well as HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, we now know that Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters is caused by a disagreement between primaries and secondaries on the order in which transactions become visible […]

We're hiring!

I wrote up more details about the open roles and some hiring process advice on LinkedIn. I don't want to copy/paste it all here so here's a link for you!

www.linkedin.com/posts/sudoma...

Maybe we can pit Mr. Beast and David Blane against each other. Last man standing-style.

Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS with customer-managed keys Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS, allowing customers to use their own keys to encrypt tables and meet regulatory requirements.

Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS, allowing customers to use their own keys to encrypt tables and meet regulatory requirements.

Setting OIDC for GitHub Actions Workflows with AWS Using Terraform Setting OIDC for GitHub Actions Workflows with AWS Using Terraform

medium.com/@dksoni4530/...

When accessing AWS accounts using GitHub Actions temporary credentials are important. Many teams generate permanent access keys and use these to allow GitHub to perform operations in AWS but these keys could be used by anyone else if they were able to obtain them.(1️⃣/3️⃣)

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Ok how about controlmonkey.io? Control Monkey can scan your accounts and automatically create TF state from it.

Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available | Amazon Web Services AWS Console-to-Code generates reusable infrastructure as code from your AWS console actions, supporting Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC. With a few clicks, get CloudFormation, CDK (TypeScript, Python, Java),...

Like this aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/co... ?

New @frame.work 13" is suppose to ship next month. I'm excited to try out Bluefin and Omakub

projectbluefin.io
omakub.org

In S3 simplicity is table stakes From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.

On #PiDay (Amazon S3's 19th birthday), Andy Warfield takes us through S3's evolution from simple object store to sophisticated data platform. A fascinating look at how customer feedback shapes our services and how we maintain simplicity at massive scale. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s...