Stephen Barr

Interview with Ramses Alcaide on my show, AWS Made Easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbpAVrD5--U

I just received my Neurable MW75's. These headphones scan your brain and give you insights into your productivity. I'll do a live unboxing later in the week.

gp3 is an evolution of gp2. Why are you stuck in the past? One of the 9 ways to save in my webinar tomorrow...REGISTER HERE: https://cloudfix.com/resources/webinar-9-ways-to-save-on-ebs/ #finops

Weekend post - Saw an ad for a fan which plugs into a light socket. Ad says fan is 'revolutionary'...

Aren't all ceiling fans revolutionary? 😁

What are your best puns and Dad jokes?

I asked my kids for help making burgers and offered $1/patty. I wanted 6 patties. I got 20 meatballs and grins. What does this mean for AI?... Agents do what you ask them to do, and if you incentivize them in a certain way, they will respond accordingly.

I was volunteering at a kids school event, and my phone buzzed. LinkedIn message. AWS Made Easy recording confirmed for 10pm. Remote work is the way... 👇 Check my LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7340894802999242753/

Smart Money #8: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/muthuramanannamalai_finops-cloudcostoptimizaton-genai-activity-7340370116582207489-4evM?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACXVxoBkTpTrNAsiJbPQawOo5XXorrmj8I

A highlight of FinOpsX is the new connections you can make. I got to meet Muthuraman Annamalai...

He is working on a really neat series - "Smart Money - Weekly FinOps Platform Insights." Make sure to follow him on LInkedIn. Link in the comments.

#FinOps #CloudOptimization #AWS #TechCommunity

Learning to leverage AI effectively is probably the best investment you can make in yourself. I use each of these services many times per day, and for the order-of-magnitude boost in productivity, it is well worth it. What do you think?

Not sure what to say about this one. I suppose it really shows the gulf between smaller quantized models and the large models like 4o and Sonnet

What is the tone of voice that you use with your LLMs? I choose Starfleet Captain.

YouTube video by Amazon Web Services Demo - Serverless Integration - Aurora DSQL, AWS Lambda and API Gateway | Amazon Web Services

Raluca's DSQL + Lambda + API Gateway Demo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGKJ...

@darko.rup12.net so I am debugging some python code that looked like:

my_map[key] = []
my_map[key].append({"foo" : "bar"})
my_map[key] = {"baz" : "qux"} # should have been append

I really need to switch to rust

If you were to rank re:Invent sessions by potential ROI, “What’s new with cost optimization” by Rick Ochs and Letian Feng is as good as it gets! #reinvent

I will get a workout today running to Rick Ochs’ and Latin Feng’s session. Let’s see how fast I can make it from the Venetian to the Wynn. I’m looking forward to see the new cost optimization toys!

My December project is going to be to port my personal AI infrastructure to be Bedrock native, giving me a chance to explore all of the new features!

My December project is going to be to port my personal AI infrastructure to be Bedrock native, giving me a chance to explore all of the new features announced

This is undeniably good.

@quinnypig.com I completely agree with this. And also non-obvious is that your individual account must become an AWS Organization before you can setup IAM Identity Center. Its frustrating! Hopefully the path gets smoothed out over time.

So cool to see my Dad @jeffbarr.bsky.social honored for all the massive body of work he's put together. I've had an inside view of just how much effort has gone into those 1.5M words over the past 2 decades! This is a well-deserved celebration!

For all the #awsreinvent folks, what bit of gear from home do you find makes travel easier? Fror me, bringing along a full size keyboard is always worth the effort.

SageMaker* only counts as one!

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

@quinnypig.com you should do for AWS services with Tom Lehrer did for the periodic table.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3...

Meeting awesome folks at #AWSreInvent day 2, including a professional photographer!

Look for a guy that looks like the photo below and I’ll share some ideas on how to save on your AWS bills

Don't worry about FOMO at #reInvent. You'll miss out on 98% of it, but the 2% you do get will be awesome!

On a flight to Vegas and having a conversation with the person next to me about EBS volume choices. That’s reinvent week for you.

Hello, Bluesky. I am Stephen Barr. Great to be here!

This is a great idea - using an LLM as a Matlab-to-Julia transpiler!

Or as Mitch Hedberg put it: All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"