EP02: Essential Reading for Cloud Builders
What I read this week, Ideas, hands-on, how-tos, tools, books, and updates from around the community.
Hi— this is Kisan from The Cloud Handbook. This is episode 02 of “Essential Reading for Cloud Builders” series. Each week I will share curated roundup of the most insightful and practical resources from across the cloud community. This series helps you stay updated in cloud.
☁️ Latest in Cloud
Building with purpose: Stories from the Now Go Build CTO Fellows
OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS
AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously expanding our selection to include groundbreaking models from leading AI innovators so that you always have access to the latest advancements to drive your business forward.
Today, I am happy to announce the availability of two new OpenAI models with open weights in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. OpenAI gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models are designed for text generation and reasoning tasks, offering developers and organizations new options to build AI applications with complete control over their infrastructure and data.
Some other news in Cloud:
🧭 What I'm Reading this Week
Since, I am more active on Substack these days, this week I spent more time reading and exploring new Substacks. Here are some of the article I read this week.
90 Percent DevOps Engineers do these 7 learning mistakes by
The Fastest Way to Earn Trust From Leadership by
You don't need a niche, you need a point of view by
EP174: 16 Coding Patterns That Make Interviews Easy by
Teaching Your Logs to Speak Human - Natural Language Processing for Log Understanding by
🛠️ Hands-on & How-tos
AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered service that uses natural language to create enterprise-grade applications. App Studio opens up application development to technical professionals without software development skills, such as IT project managers, data engineers, and enterprise architects, empowering them to quickly build applications that are secure and fully managed by AWS, eliminating the need for operational expertise. Builders can create and deploy apps to modernize internal business processes such as inventory management and tracking, claims processing, and complex approvals to improve employee productivity and customer outcomes.
In this workshop, you will learn AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer (IAM Access Analyzer) features through hands-on labs. An introduction on the necessary AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts is provided, if you are already familiar with IAM feel free to skip that section.
📦 Tools Worth Trying
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation.
It offers a high-level object-oriented abstraction to define AWS resources imperatively using the power of modern programming languages. Using the CDK’s library of infrastructure constructs, you can easily encapsulate AWS best practices in your infrastructure definition and share it without worrying about boilerplate logic.
The Serverless Framework – Makes it easy to use AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services to build applications that auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and result in radically low maintenance.
The Serverless Framework is a command-line tool with approachable YAML syntax to deploy both your code and cloud infrastructure needed to make tons of serverless application use-cases, like APIs, front-ends, data pipelines and scheduled tasks. It's a multi-language framework that supports Node.js, Typescript, Python, Go, Java, and more. It's also completely extensible via over 1,000 plugins which add more serverless use-cases and workflows to the Framework.
📚 Book of the Week
🔗 Serverless Development on AWS: Building Enterprise-Scale Serverless Solutions by Sheen Brisals, Luke Hedger
The adoption of serverless is on the rise, but until now, little guidance has been available for development teams that want to apply this technology on AWS. This definitive guide is packed with architectural, security, and data best practices and patterns for architects and engineers who want to build reliable enterprise-scale serverless solutions.
Sheen Brisals, an AWS Serverless Hero, and Luke Hedger, an AWS Community Builder, outline the serverless adoption requirements for an enterprise, examine the development tools your team needs, and explain in depth the nuances of testing event-driven and distributed serverless services. You'll gain practical guidance for keeping up with change and learn how to build serverless solutions with sustainability in mind.
💬 Quote of the Week
“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.” –Marc Andreessen, Board Member of Facebook
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