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Welcome to my blog, where I share my writings as well as my weekly newsletter where I cover all things AWS and open source related. The majority of this blog will be technical, hands on with the occasional leadership piece.
I am always looking for great open source projects to feature and dive deep into, so if you are workingon something you are really excited about, please get in touch and I would love to feature that work within the newsletter or as a dedicated blog post.
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AWS open source newsletter #203
Aug 27, 2024 | 28 minute read
Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, more great new projects are featured in this edition, #203. Projects to check out include: how you can proxy OpenAI requests through Amazon Bedrock, security tools that help you stay one step ahead of bad actors, a way of implementing CDK Pipelines in a less opinionated way, a tool that helps you validate your AWS IAM policies, a toolkit to help get you started with good practices when creating CloudFormation templates, some demo code that demonstrate how you can implement zero downtime updates to your applications, as well as some really cool demos and use cases of generative AI in action (too many to mention, so check them all out!
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- Langfuse
- Steampipe
- Ray
- Apache Spark
- AWS Amplify
- Flutter
- Valkey
- O3DE
- AWS CDK
- LangChain
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Argo Workflows
- OpenTofu
- Bottlerocket
- Karpenter
- OpenTelemetry
- Apache Flink
- Apache Pinot
- Apache Kafka
- openCypher
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Deequ
- OCSF
- GraphStorm
- OpenShift
- Amazon EMR
- ActiveMQ
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Cedar
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AWS open source newsletter #202
Jul 22, 2024 | 20 minute read
Edition #202 Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, issue #202. In this edition, I share more new projects (thank you for those of you that have sent them through) which include a project to help you monitor your data pipelines, the open sourced AWS Secrets Manager agent, a really cool new framework for managing multi generative AI agents, a couple of interesting projects to help manage your AWS accounts, a repo that provides CloudFormation snippets, and a few demo applications including one I put together that shows how you can use the Amazon Bedrock Converse API to summarise Hacker News comments.
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- aws open source
- PostgreSQL
- OpenSearch
- Cedar
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- OpenShift
- ROSA
- PHP
- Flyway
- LiteLLM
- GraphRAG
- Valkey
- Finch
- Dask
- Cilium
- Apache Kafka
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- AWS CDK
- Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- InfluxDB
- Apache Solr
- Apache Flink
- MLflow
- Notation
- Amazon Linux 2023
- RabbitMQ
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AWS open source newsletter #201
Jul 10, 2024 | 28 minute read
Edition #201 Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, issue #201, your trusted source for the very best open source on AWS content. This weeks new projects for you to practice your four freedoms include generative AI infused projects to help you generate your docs, streamline the setting up of your AWS resources, a new experimental framework for building document based workflows, and a cool demo that showcases how you can use generative AI to help translate American Sign Language.
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- aws open source
- PHP
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Node.js
- LLRT
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- eksctl
- Valkey
- LangChain
- Project Lakechain
- AWS Amplify
- Itsio
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Cassandra
- PyTorch
- Apache httpd
- Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
- Apache Flink
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- OpenSearch
- OpenZFS
- Amazon Linux
- FreeRTOS
- RabbitMQ
- AWS ParallelCluster
- Open Container Initiative
- Smithy
- Cedar
- sbt
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AWS open source newsletter #200
Jun 24, 2024 | 20 minute read
Edition #200 Welcome to a milestone edition of this newsletter, number #200!! Wow, it feels like quite an achievement. Before diving into this newsletter, a big thank you for sticking with me. Time has flown by so quickly, and am looking forward to the next 100. As I have done in a few of the previous milestone issues, I wanted to share a few interesting stats from sharing open source projects with you over the past few years.
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AWS open source newsletter #199
Jun 10, 2024 | 18 minute read
Edition #199 Welcome to issue #199 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. I cannot believe that we are one issue away from a pretty significant milestone. I would love to hear from some of the regular readers of this newsletter to find any highlights they have had, or perhaps things they have found that have been pretty significant.
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AWS open source newsletter #198
May 28, 2024 | 25 minute read
Edition #198 Welcome to issue #198 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. In this issue we feature new projects that provide integration of .NET Aspire with AWS resources, an automated data discovery tool to find data in your AWS environments, a tool to help incorporate good practices when building SaaS solutions, a cost allocation dashboard for your Kubernetes workloads, a project that might help you mitigate costs around Internet Gateway, and a few generative AI demos around food, news, and social media which you should definitely check out.
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- aws open source
- Aspire
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Leapp
- OpenTelemetry
- AWS CDK
- llrt
- Valkey
- PostgreSQL
- InfluxDB
- High Performance Software Foundation
- Karpenter
- Multus
- Kata
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Apache Flink
- Zingg
- Apache Hudi
- Apache Iceberg
- MySQL
- Apache Tomcat
- WordPress
- AWS Amplify
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- OpenSearch
- Apache Kafka
- Bottlerocket
- Amazon EMR
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AWS open source newsletter #197
May 13, 2024 | 21 minute read
Edition #197 Welcome to issue #197 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. Like in previous editions of this newsletter, we feature new projects for you you practice your four freedoms. We have some great projects, including a sprinkling of repos that look to help you benchmark and assess your generative AI models and agents, a new fruity framework for building document understanding applications, a nice container command line tool that sysadmins will love, a tool to help you migrate your CodeCommit repositories, a really nice application of using generative AI to help automate CVE findings, and a neat generative AI newsletter generation demo.
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AWS open source newsletter #196
Apr 29, 2024 | 22 minute read
Edition #196 Welcome to issue #196 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, more great new projects are featured in this edition of the newsletter, including a link to the Valkey repo, a nice GUI based project to help you build orchestration workflows that uses Apache Airflow under the covers, a tool to help you find signals through the noise of your security logs, a project to help you run serverless tasks in a cron like fashion, a command line runner for Amazon CodeCatalyst, a tool to help you simplify the deployment of Cruise Control on Amazon MSK, a nice Mac client for experimenting with Amazon Bedrock, and some really cool demo apps, the pick of which (for me) is a nice way of surfacing up your Amazon Bedrock models in a way that existing applications that expect an API key can use.
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- aws open source
- Valkey
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- OpenSearch
- LangChain
- PostgreSQL
- WordPress
- RAGmap
- RAGxplorer
- Cedar
- AWS CDK
- Lambda Web Adapter
- Postfix
- Spring Boot
- Amazon Corretto
- Amazon EKS
- Kubernetes
- Karpenter
- KEDA
- Prometheus
- OPA
- Amazon EMR
- PySpark
- MySQL
- Open JD
- AWS Amplify
- GraphQL
- AWS PDK
- Apache Livy
- Nodestream
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AWS open source newsletter #195
Apr 15, 2024 | 21 minute read
Edition #195 Welcome to issue #195 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. This week I am heading out to Everything Open, and looking forward to meeting the community in Gladstone. I will be talking about Cedar, and showing why it is important and how it works (demo is working lovely now). I am now on the third week of my open source roadshow, which is why I have had to change the publishing of this newsletter to every other week - at least until I get back home.
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AWS open source newsletter #194
Apr 3, 2024 | 21 minute read
Edition #194 Welcome to issue #194 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. Due to travelling and speaking commitments, regular readers will have noticed that I slipped up and missed a week. Normal service has been resumed, and as always, this week we start with a round up of some freshly baked new projects for you to practice your four freedoms.