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Julian Wood

@julianwood.com

Head often in the clouds, hopefully grounded in reality. Helping people love #serverless @AWSCloud.

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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 19863 🔁 4198 💬 743 📌 1110
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403) YouTube video by AWS Events

Day 4/30 Serverless Best Practices: More memory = more CPU = faster = cheaper. Lambda bills by duration × memory — so faster execution can offset the higher rate. Use Power Tuning to find your sweet spot. 💡
🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?...
#Serverless30Days #Serverless

06.03.2026 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403) YouTube video by AWS Events

Day 3/30 Serverless Best Practices: One Lambda. One job. Split only when it hurts. A function doing five things is five debugging nightmares waiting to happen. 🎯
🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?...
#Serverless30Days #Serverless

05.03.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403) YouTube video by AWS Events

Day 2/30 Serverless Best Practices: 6s processing. 3% failures. 23% abandoned. Issues can add up without best practices & and every one is easily fixable with knowing some simple architecture. ⚠️
🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA?...
#Serverless30Days #Serverless

04.03.2026 16:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403)
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Best practices for serverless developers (CNS403) YouTube video by AWS Events

Day 1/30: I'm started 30 Days of Serverless Best Practices which is 30 tips from my talk - practical, battle-tested, ready to use. Starting now with the intro. 🚀
🎬 youtu.be/tMvwM_KXNPA
#Serverless30Days #Serverles -

03.03.2026 22:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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AWS Events The official YouTube channel for AWS Events and Webinars. Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, an...

📢🚀 Want to squash payment processing delays and build resilient real-time systems? | Join #Serverless Office Hours with Rajdeep Banerjee, Ramesh Mathikumar, and Brian Krygsman. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...

02.03.2026 18:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, the trees part! 🤪 Good luck with the next adventure!

23.02.2026 20:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Do something, even a little bit, every day, and you progress!

23.02.2026 20:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AWS Events The official YouTube channel for AWS Events and Webinars. Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, an...

📢🚀 Learn how AI agents can automate content repurposing, from extracting quotes to creating video clips, all with serverless! | Join #Serverless Office Hours with @readysetcloud.io and @andmore.dev. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...

23.02.2026 18:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#GOTOpodcast: @holdenkarau.com & @julianwood.com talk about what it takes to work with distributed systems at scale

They dig into:
-> a decade of lessons from Apache Spark
-> where GPU integration goes wrong
-> common data-processing mistakes

..and more

🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

23.01.2026 13:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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AWS Events The official YouTube channel for AWS Events and Webinars. Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, an...

📢🚀 Building multi-tenant SaaS with AWS Lambda? New tenant isolation mode=zero cross-tenant data exposure+much simpler ops | Join #Serverless Office Hours with Anton Aleksandrov and Ayush Kulkarni. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...

19.01.2026 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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AWS Events The official YouTube channel for AWS Events and Webinars. Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, an...

🚀📢Want to optimize event-driven architectures with Lambda's new ESM capabilities? 3x faster auto-scaling, 200K events/sec with SQS Provisioned Mode + 90% cost savings for Kafka workloads. 📺 📺 Join Serverless Office Hours Today at 11AM PT. 7PM UK, 8PM CET.
www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsCh...

13.01.2026 17:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
07.01.2026 13:11 👍 5636 🔁 1996 💬 15 📌 30

Hey, Amazon Science is on Bluesky! Welcome :)

@amazon-science.bsky.social

08.01.2026 08:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Spot the difference: Iraq vs. Venezuela

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Population Density Map Of Paris vs London


See 100+ more: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

02.01.2026 22:01 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Merry Christmas all! Enjoy the time with people you love. 🎄

25.12.2025 13:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

23.12.2025 15:50 👍 341 🔁 133 💬 2 📌 4
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Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...

Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵

dev.to/aws/explorin...

#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python

16.12.2025 13:15 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025
CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/417 Olaf Molenveld - Technology Advisor at CircleCI…

@julianwood.com& Olaf Molenveld dive into modern CI/CD challenges: pipeline optimization, platform teams, AI-powered DevOps, and why your deployment factory needs as much care as your code. Watch now!

15.12.2025 13:01 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This will be great!

15.12.2025 23:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

12.12.2025 00:50 👍 3568 🔁 1030 💬 113 📌 340
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New course alert 🎉

It's taken me over 2 years of creating courses to finally go back to my roots.

Want to learn how to build .NET apps on #AWS? This is the course for you. In it, you'll learn about the core services you need to care about to build on AWS.

#dotnet

dometrain.com/course/getti...

11.12.2025 18:38 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
AWS re:Invent 2025 - [NEW LAUNCH] Deep Dive on AWS Lambda durable functions (CNS380)
AWS re:Invent 2025 - [NEW LAUNCH] Deep Dive on AWS Lambda durable functions (CNS380) YouTube video by AWS Events

Wow! 3k views in just one day - couldn’t be more happy with @edjgeek.bsky.social and my first deep dive on AWS Lambda durable functions at #reinvent2025

youtu.be/XJ80NBOwsow?...

07.12.2025 12:09 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Back from reinvent and reflecting on an awesome time connecting with so many people. Thanks to everyone who came and connected, watched
sessions, asked questions, had opinions, enjoyed learning. An inspiring week for developers.

08.12.2025 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Loved talking about Best Practices for Serverless Developers at re:Invent!

02.12.2025 23:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hey #serverless developers I hope to see you at @awscloudconcept.bsky.social re:Invent next week. If you are doing the "Road to re:Invent hackathon" (s12d.com/rtri), buckle up, I'll be one of your hosts! If you love serverless, find @julianwood.com or myself to get one of these!

27.11.2025 05:13 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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We made the announcement, now come and join Archana Srikanta and me as we dive into the details of Lambda Managed Instances in our session CNS382 on Thursday afternoon. The event is now available in the session catalog, so register now! buff.ly/0fZNk9k #serverless #reinvent #awslambda

01.12.2025 23:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 | Amazon Web Services Discover our most impactful innovations across analytics, AI, compute, containers, security, and more throughout the conference week.

FYI – We’re rounding up the most exciting and impactful announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 here:

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#AWS #News #AWSreInvent #reInvent

01.12.2025 17:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | Amazon Web Services Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all…

🚀 AWS just announced Lambda Managed Instances, a new capability that lets you run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 compute while preserving the #serverless programming and operational models.

Effectively, run AWS Lambda functions on EC2 instances of your choice in your own account!

01.12.2025 05:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0