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Mark McCann

@mark-mccann.bsky.social

Husband, father of 2 awesome Girls, Cloud Architect, Wardley Mapper. Focused on Engineering excellence, Well Architected and Modern Cloud. Co-author of The Value Flywheel Effect.

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EDAA: Event Driven Agentic Architecture The AI landscape rapidly evolves beyond isolated, single-purpose agents toward rich ecosystems of specialized agents collaborating to solve complex problems. Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol rep...

"EDAA: Event Driven Agentic Architecture".
This article introduces a novel approach to implementing a serverless event-driven agent architecture using Google's A2A protocol with AWS services.
by Luca Bianchi
blog.radixia.ai/edaa-event-d...

20.04.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello folks,

My name is Dave Boyne, I'm on a mission to help bring discoverability to event-driven architectures through open source.

If you love event-driven, distributed, serverless, then let's connect ❀️

27.10.2024 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters) After all these years, I finally put something into words about prioritization.

Are you trying to improve flow, make better tradeoffs, push for more strategic alignment, or clarify what's supported and what isn't?

cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-351-th...

15.04.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Creating subdomains - EventCatalog Creating and managing subdomains within EventCatalog.

Subdomains are a part of domain-driven design that EventCatalog was missing.

I'm happy to share that a new version is now out , and we support adding subdomains into your catalog.

Hope it helps!
www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/develop...

15.04.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Boostrapping a Wardley Map With AI
YouTube video by The Beautiful Mess-John Cutler Boostrapping a Wardley Map With AI

Bootstrapping a Wardley Map using @obsidian.net and AI

youtu.be/uU1fSE0piXM

06.04.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cybernetic Teammate Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience

Our research at Procter and Gamble found very large gains to work quality & productivity from AI. It was conducted using GPT-4 last summer.

Since then we have seen Gen3 models, reasoners, large context windows, full multimodal, deep research, web search… www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybern...

27.03.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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From Fair Haven to Technomic Empires. Why the fuss about conversational programming? Part IV

From fair haven to technomic empires.

Part 4 in the series on "Why the fuss about conversational programming"

medium.com/mapai/from-f...

26.03.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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ServerlessDays Belfast One Day. One Track. One Community

Well chuffed to announce that @swardley.bsky.social will be keynoting at ServerlessDays Belfast! Can finally stop dropping hints and just say the name πŸ˜‰πŸ˜€.

serverlessdaysbelfast.com

26.03.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I made it easier to transform your OpenAPI files into visualizations and documentation with EventCatalog.

You can now use the httpMethodsToMessages to map HTTP methods to message types (commands, queries and events).

Enjoy!

www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/plugins...

20.03.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Works great. I was using this feature today !

20.03.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ServerlessDays Belfast 2025: Call for Speakers Serverless Days Belfast, the software community conference focused on the movement of the industry towards serverless and modern cloud technology.It i...

Our CFP is up for Serverless Days Belfast. 15th May in the iconic Titanic Hotel. As per past events, it will be an incredible speaker line-up! Do you fancy being in it?? sessionize.com/serverlessda...

04.03.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well, after nine years ... Me & X is going to decamp from the other place.

26.02.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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VPC Gateway Endpoints are actually pretty cool for a couple of key reasons ✨

Think of them as a secure tunnel directly into AWS services like S3 or DynamoDB πŸ”

22.02.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's on... The finest Serverless event in the whole of Ireland (well, the only one).

21.02.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ServerlessDays Belfast One Day. One Track. One Community

We're back!!!! ServerlessDays Belfast returns to the Titanic Hotel Belfast for an awesome day of learning, sharing, and innovation. Book now to avoid disappointment πŸ˜€.

serverlessdaysbelfast.com

21.02.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Been generating impossibly dangerous stunts with veo 2 using text prompts. Still surprising how realistic they can look (though not perfect yet).

01.02.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

This might be the most earth-shattering change to folks' AWS console workflows to hit since the introduction of IAM users.

16.01.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0
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Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code! Innovative cloud architect focusing on serverless computing and Function as a Service. Advocates for optimized, functionless architecture to reduce complexity and costs. Expertise in leveraging cloud-...

✍️Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code!

Published on @infoq.com, my first contribution of the new year 2025!

www.infoq.com/articles/fun...

#Serverless #AWS #Azure #GCP #Cloud #TheServerlessBook #Functionless

03.01.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#18 Managing Complexity 🧢 This week, our serverless expert is Momento CEO Khawaja Shams, our spotlight falls on AWS Serverless DA Julian Wood, we look at the latest AWS service releases, blog posts, news & more!

🌟 Issue #18 or the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out! πŸ‘‡πŸ½

This week, our serverless expert is Momento Co-Founder and CEO Khawaja Shams, and our spotlight falls on AWS Serverless Principal DA @julianwood.com!

serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/18-managin...

#AWS #serverless

03.01.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Wardley Mapping Buffer Table of contents

Do you know what's call about sharing strategy in public? That you talk with fantastic people like @marochko.bsky.social from @buffer.com πŸ™Œ

#WardleyMapping #Strategy

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learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/wardley-ma...

16.12.2024 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to use Biome in AWS CDK Solutions We cover how to use Biome in TypeScript AWS CDK solutions for linting, analysing, and formattingβ€Šβ€”β€Šall in one with batteries included.

How to use Biome in AWS CDK Solutions

"We cover how to use Biome in TypeScript AWS CDK solutions for linting, analysing, and formatting β€” all in one with batteries included."

blog.serverlessadvocate.com/how-to-use-b...

Please feel free to 𝐬𝐑𝐚𝐫𝐞 if you enjoy the content πŸ’œ

#serverless #aws

14.12.2024 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Healthcare Innovation with Wardley Mapping: Strategic Insights on Emerging Technologies β€” Jo Baeyaert Explore how Wardley Mapping empowers healthcare organizations to align technology investments with innovation. From experimental breakthroughs like regenerative medicine to commodity solutions like te...

Explore the newest addition to my website's toolbox: a deep dive into Wardley Mapping for Innovation. This article unpacks how to visualize value chains, identify innovation opportunities, and navigate change with clarity. A must-read for strategy enthusiasts! 🌟

www.jobaeyaert.com/wardley-mapp...

13.12.2024 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exploring team and service boundaries with User Needs Mapping β€” Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value User Needs Mapping refers to the first four steps of the Wardley Mapping process that can provide significant value when helping understand users/customers, their needs and the dependencies required t...

See also User Needs Mapping (UNM) a technique that blends Wardley Mapping with TT:
teamtopologies.com/unm

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28.11.2024 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reactive vs. proactive prioritization

12.12.2024 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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In case you've got overwhelmed by the AWS re:Invent announcements, here's a great summary of things you definitely need to be aware of! ✨

Created by Ian McKay & visually prepared by Eduardo Rabello πŸͺ„

06.12.2024 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
What's behind Europe's car industry crisis? | Ed Conway analysis
YouTube video by Sky News What's behind Europe's car industry crisis? | Ed Conway analysis

πŸš—What's happening to Europe's car industry is one of the biggest stories in the world right now, & prob the biggest story of next year too.
A slow motion implosion driven by multiple factors (esp Chinese competition).
Watch my primer on what's going onπŸ‘‡ youtu.be/oW_SXIVQT5I?...

06.12.2024 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 31
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The other key thing here is that China has invested all the way down the supply chain. Look at the red bars here πŸ‘‡
It's not just that China makes most of the world's batteries. It makes most of the components going inside them too

06.12.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
AWS re:Invent 2024 - Get started with Amazon Aurora DSQL (DAT424)
YouTube video by AWS Events AWS re:Invent 2024 - Get started with Amazon Aurora DSQL (DAT424)

One of @marcbrooker.bsky.social’s AWS re:Invent 2024 breakout sessions, DAT424, Get started with Amazon Aurora DSQL, is now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wx5...

Marc is excellent at articulating how and why things work the way they do --> you'll always learn something new

06.12.2024 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aurora DSQL - A NEW boring(?) AWS Serverless Postgres compatible database Aurora DSQL( is a serverless, distributed database with PostgreSQL compatibility. Serverless and relational databases don't usually mix, but AWS has modernized this traditional classic car(PostgresSQL), with a brand-new interior powered by a Formula ...

Aurora DSQL feels like Postgres but drives like serverless - Get the full scoop in my latest blog πŸ‘‡
blog.datachef.co/aurora-dsql-...

03.12.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview) AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database offering unlimited scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management...

IT'S HERE! Amazon Aurora Distributed SQL (DSQL). It's DynamoDB and Postgres merged into a truly serverless relational database.

This is THE announcement of Re:Invent 2024. Everything else is irrelevant.

03.12.2024 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

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