Heeki Park

Reimagining who can build | Heeki Park The "builder" label is no longer reserved for those with a computer science degree or deep design expertise. AI tools are democratizing the ability to build delightful user experiences for real world ...

The "builder" label is no longer reserved for those with a computer science degree or deep design expertise. AI tools are democratizing the ability to build delightful user experiences for real world use cases. I write about an interesting experiment here: www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Considering camps of adoption for the agentic journey | Heeki Park The industry is undergoing tectonic shifts as organizations consider how to implement AI. In my conversations with customers navigating these changes, I have found that progress is often more about as...

The industry is undergoing tectonic shifts as organizations consider how to implement AI. To help put some structure around this fast-moving space, I've organized my observations into three "camps" of adoption. Read more about it in my blog post! www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Building responsive APIs with Amazon API Gateway response streaming | Amazon Web Services | Heeki Park I'm pleased to see that API Gateway has just launched support for response streaming from backend integrations. This enables builders to deploy agentic applications on serverless compute and maintain ...

API Gateway just launched support for response streaming. Check out the launch blog and my blog post outlining serverless compute options for response streaming! www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Managing credentials and secrets in agentic applications with AgentCore Identity | Heeki Park It's been about a month since my last post, as it's been quite a busy month preparing for re:Invent at the end of the month. I'm excited to be presenting in two breakouts this year. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱, 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆, 𝗮𝗻...

I continue having conversations around credential and secrets management in agentic applications. I wrote a blog post discussing how AgentCore Identity can address some of those needs. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Revisiting AgentCore with private connectivity, tagging, and infrastructure-as-code | Heeki Park Yesterday, I ran my third half marathon in the last two years, and training continues in the lead up to my first full marathon in mid-November. In each of my half marathon races, I've improved but eve...

In my next blog post, I revisit AgentCore Runtime with the latest enhancements that were launched at the end of September, e.g., support for infrastructure as code, tagging, and private connectivity. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Unifying tools with a frontend gateway using AgentCore Gateway | Heeki Park Today marks 9 years at AWS. Having some amount of tenure here, I sometimes speak to new hires, as part of their onboarding plan, to talk about my journey at AWS. I tell them that Amazon is a place wi...

Today marks 9 years at AWS. I write some of my reflections about my time so far and share the next blog post in my AgentCore series. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Adding memory to your agentic applications using AgentCore Memory | Heeki Park Continuing the series on AgentCore services and agentic applications more broadly, I published my next post, covering agentic memory with AgentCore Memory. I cover memory concepts, implementation deta...

Continuing the series on AgentCore services and agentic applications more broadly, I published my next post, covering agentic memory with AgentCore Memory. I cover memory concepts, implementation details, and the importance of context engineering. Enjoy! www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

At the AWS Summit in New York last month, Amazon announced a new set of services in preview for building, deploying, and operating your AI agents under the umbrella of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. | Heek... At the AWS Summit in New York last month, Amazon announced a new set of services in preview for building, deploying, and operating your AI agents under the umbrella of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Over t...

I spent some time exploring Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. I hope this post helps others who are looking to investigate the possibilities of this service, now in public preview. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

It's clear that the landscape of AI protocols is rapidly evolving and expanding. | Heeki Park It's clear that the landscape of AI protocols is rapidly evolving and expanding. MCP seems to have a ton of attention right now, and I suspect that A2A will continue to grow as agent networks grow...

It's clear that the landscape of AI protocols is rapidly evolving. I spent some time thinking about the agent-as-tool pattern and how MCP usage is evolving. This post is targeted at the API architect or developer trying to understand agents and remote MCP servers. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Understanding OAuth2 and implementing identity-aware MCP servers | Heeki Park As excitement with MCP continues to build, it's critical that security is baked into remote MCP server deployments. In this post, I do a refresher on OAuth2 and cover my journey of implementing OA...

As excitement with MCP continues to build, it's critical that security is baked into remote MCP server deployments. In this post, I do a refresher on OAuth2 and cover my journey of implementing OAuth2 with the MCP Python SDK. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Authoring agentic applications: to code or to prompt? | Heeki Park As developers build agentic applications, it's clear that some capabilities are handled easily by LLMs, but it's also obvious that others are not. I wrote a blog post to walk through some cons...

As developers build agentic applications, it's clear that some capabilities are handled easily by LLMs, but it's also obvious that others are not. I wrote a blog post to walk through some considerations for authoring agentic applications. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Testing and deploying the new Strands Agents Python SDK | Heeki Park AWS released the Strands Agents with a Python SDK today. I spent some time tonight testing it out and deploying it on API Gateway and Lambda. I documented that exploration and hope it helps folks as t...

AWS released the Strands Agents with a Python SDK today. I spent some time tonight testing it out and deploying it on API Gateway and Lambda. I documented that exploration and hope it helps folks as they think about deploying agents on AWS.
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Building an MCP server as an API developer | Heeki Park I don't know if it's selection bias but it seems like MCP keeps coming up in all my feeds and in lots of conversations these days. I spent some time building and wrote this blog post, document...

I spent some time building MCP servers and wrote this blog post, documenting the developer journey. I hope it helps others who are interested in building too, whether for personal use cases or as you think about building for your organization. www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

Heeki Park on LinkedIn: Building frontends with Streamlit as a backend developer I'm not a frontend developer but I did dabble a bit with Streamlit over the winter break. I wrote about my experience and learnings of building a frontend…

I'm not a frontend developer but I did dabble a bit with Streamlit over the winter break. I wrote about my experience and learnings of building a frontend application as a backend developer. Enjoy!
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Heeki Park on LinkedIn: Considering design trade-offs when building serverless APIs on AWS I've been having a few conversations with customers about serverless API strategy lately, so I decided to document some of the trade-offs I commonly walk…

I wrote a post discussion design trade-offs for serverless APIs. Have a look! www.linkedin.com/posts/heekip...

I'm pleased to announce that Amazon API Gateway now supports custom domain names for private REST API endpoints. This one has been a long time coming! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

I wrote a quick post on authoring an SCP to block deployment of public REST API endpoints with Amazon API Gateway. heeki.medium.com/using-scps-t...