AI in the human loop, not the other way around. This shift will transform how we combat loneliness, deliver
care, build systems, and educate ourselves in an era of rapid change.
Read my tech predictions for 2026 on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech...
Now, go build!
care, build systems, and educate ourselves in an era of rapid change.
Read my tech predictions for 2026 on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech...
Now, go build!
Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond
We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming y...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
AI in the human loop, not the other way around. This shift will transform how we combat loneliness, deliver
care, build systems, and educate ourselves in an era of rapid change.
Read my tech predictions for 2026 on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech...
Now, go build!
care, build systems, and educate ourselves in an era of rapid change.
Read my tech predictions for 2026 on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech...
Now, go build!
The best technology blends into the background of everyday life. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/what...
What is USSD (and who cares)?
While many of us chase the latest tech trends, innovative builders in Sub-Saharan Africa are leveraging a nearly 30-year-old messaging protocol to process hundreds of billions in transactions annually...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The best technology blends into the background of everyday life. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/what...
In the latest Frugal Architect podcast we talk with @boyanslat.bsky.social about @theoceancleanup.bsky.social’s mission to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040. When you're climbing the right hill, solutions get simpler over time. thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/b...
Frugal engineering for ocean conservation: My journey with The Ocean Cleanup
When 16-year-old Boyan Slat encountered more plastic bags than fish in Greek waters, he asked a simple question that would change everything:
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October 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In the latest Frugal Architect podcast we talk with @boyanslat.bsky.social about @theoceancleanup.bsky.social’s mission to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040. When you're climbing the right hill, solutions get simpler over time. thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/b...
No data, no AI, no progress. My @AmazonScience article explores how multi-layered mapping + petabyte-scale cloud infrastructure helps save lives in time of crisis. Building AI without addressing the fundamental data divide means solving the wrong problems. amazon.science/blog/why-ai-...
Why AI for good depends on good data
New technologies are helping vulnerable communities produce maps that integrate topographical, infrastructural, seasonal, and real-time data — an essential tool for many humanitarian endeavors.
amazon.science
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
No data, no AI, no progress. My @AmazonScience article explores how multi-layered mapping + petabyte-scale cloud infrastructure helps save lives in time of crisis. Building AI without addressing the fundamental data divide means solving the wrong problems. amazon.science/blog/why-ai-...
Development gets better with Age
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/bett...
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Development gets better with Age
This new five-part mini-series follows technology leaders from social impact organizations solving humanity's hardest problems - from crisis zones to community centers. Watch how they use drones to ma...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Development gets better with Age
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/bett...
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/bett...
As developers, we want to create and find new solutions—not port Java 11 apps to 17. Here is a real opportunity with AI tools. First understand your problem, THEN consider solutions. Our data shows that teams using this approach cut costs 15.9% YoY. www.amazon.science/blog/measuri...
Measuring the effectiveness of software development tools and practices
New cost-to-serve-software metric that accounts for the full software development lifecycle helps determine which software development innovations provide quantifiable value.
www.amazon.science
September 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
As developers, we want to create and find new solutions—not port Java 11 apps to 17. Here is a real opportunity with AI tools. First understand your problem, THEN consider solutions. Our data shows that teams using this approach cut costs 15.9% YoY. www.amazon.science/blog/measuri...
Cheap ≠ frugal. This is a lesson Zillow’s Craig Link learned from his dad. Packing lunch, limiting stops on road trips, and on the latest episode of The Frugal Architect, we talk about how these early lessons in frugality made him a better engineer. www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/c...
My dad taught me the difference between cheap and frugal...It made me a better engineer
Growing up tracking every mile per gallon in his father's worn notebook, Craig learned early that frugality means making smart tradeoffs. Today, he applies those same principles as Zillow's Chief Clou...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cheap ≠ frugal. This is a lesson Zillow’s Craig Link learned from his dad. Packing lunch, limiting stops on road trips, and on the latest episode of The Frugal Architect, we talk about how these early lessons in frugality made him a better engineer. www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/c...
Our final episode of the latest Now Go Build series features Fellows building solutions WITH their communities, not just FOR them. It’s a strong reminder that tech works best when paired with local wisdom. Watch every episode of the series on ATD: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our final episode of the latest Now Go Build series features Fellows building solutions WITH their communities, not just FOR them. It’s a strong reminder that tech works best when paired with local wisdom. Watch every episode of the series on ATD: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
Enough food is produced to feed everyone in the world, yet 40% gets wasted in the US alone. Technology can help. The latest episode of Now Go Build features CTO Fellows tackling food security head-on, both globally and locally.
Watch it here: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
Watch it here: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
August 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Enough food is produced to feed everyone in the world, yet 40% gets wasted in the US alone. Technology can help. The latest episode of Now Go Build features CTO Fellows tackling food security head-on, both globally and locally.
Watch it here: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
Watch it here: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
Eight years after launching SageMaker AI, our mission remains the same: put machine learning in the hands of every builder, regardless of skill level.
Our latest updates tackle real builder pain points.
Read more on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/08/remo...
Our latest updates tackle real builder pain points.
Read more on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/08/remo...
Removing friction from Amazon SageMaker AI development
Building with Amazon SageMaker AI should be about innovation, not wrestling with development environments or building bespoke observability systems. Here's how we're removing roadblocks so builders ca...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Eight years after launching SageMaker AI, our mission remains the same: put machine learning in the hands of every builder, regardless of skill level.
Our latest updates tackle real builder pain points.
Read more on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/08/remo...
Our latest updates tackle real builder pain points.
Read more on All Things Distributed: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/08/remo...
Behind every humanitarian crisis are people making decisions with incomplete data. It's a challenge I've seen time and again in my travels.
What if we could change that? #NowGoBuild
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
What if we could change that? #NowGoBuild
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Behind every humanitarian crisis are people making decisions with incomplete data. It's a challenge I've seen time and again in my travels.
What if we could change that? #NowGoBuild
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
What if we could change that? #NowGoBuild
www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
Morten Keldebaek and Robert Christiansen "always ask why". Why keep all data hot? Why make every component global? Why chase shiny tech? This engineering philosophy has helped Too Good To Go achieve its mission of keeping fresh food out of the dump. www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/m...
Always ask why: A journey from sports tech to food waste
From a traffic spike that crashed their system during the 2018 World Cup to serving millions of users in 19 countries, Morten and Robert share how questioning everything, embracing incremental progres...
www.thefrugalarchitect.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Morten Keldebaek and Robert Christiansen "always ask why". Why keep all data hot? Why make every component global? Why chase shiny tech? This engineering philosophy has helped Too Good To Go achieve its mission of keeping fresh food out of the dump. www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/m...
Whether climate resilience, disaster recovery, or food security -- access to good data can be the difference between life and death. I’m launching a new 5-part miniseries that focuses on the builders working every day to solve these hard human problems. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
July 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Whether climate resilience, disaster recovery, or food security -- access to good data can be the difference between life and death. I’m launching a new 5-part miniseries that focuses on the builders working every day to solve these hard human problems. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/buil...
In a new guest post from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineers @nikomatsakis.com and Mark Bowes take us inside Aurora DSQL's development from scaling write operations without two-phase commit, to overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and em...
www.allthingsdistributed.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In a new guest post from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineers @nikomatsakis.com and Mark Bowes take us inside Aurora DSQL's development from scaling write operations without two-phase commit, to overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
How do you scale globally while keeping costs in check? Tom Leaman shows how standardization, self-service tooling, and smart automation helped them do just that at Warner Bros. Discovery. Read (or listen) to the latest from The Frugal Architect here: thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/t...
Keeping the Stories Flowing at Warner Bros. Discovery
With just nine months to launch Max and no room for downtime, Warner Bros. Discovery had to make every architectural decision count. This story follows how they built observability into their systems,...
thefrugalarchitect.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How do you scale globally while keeping costs in check? Tom Leaman shows how standardization, self-service tooling, and smart automation helped them do just that at Warner Bros. Discovery. Read (or listen) to the latest from The Frugal Architect here: thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/t...
Announcing plans for the new #AWS South America (Chile) Region! Local innovators like @GrupoCetep are already using #AWS and GenAI to expand mental healthcare access. Excited to see what the next generation of builders will create in the region. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/co...
In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region | Amazon Web Services
AWS announces plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026 with three Availability Zones, marking the third AWS Region in Latin American alongside existing Regions in São Paulo and Mex...
aws.amazon.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Announcing plans for the new #AWS South America (Chile) Region! Local innovators like @GrupoCetep are already using #AWS and GenAI to expand mental healthcare access. Excited to see what the next generation of builders will create in the region. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/co...
There is no compression algorithm for experience. During the power outage in Spain and Portugal, the local AWS datacentres kept humming thanks to careful planning and preparation.
Remember: Everything fails, all the time, so plan for failure and nothing fails.
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Remember: Everything fails, all the time, so plan for failure and nothing fails.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinm...
Power is the lifeblood of a modern digital world, and while most of us see… | Kevin Miller | 14 comments
Power is the lifeblood of a modern digital world, and while most of us see power infrastructure at work on a daily basis, it's so ubiquitous that it can be invisible. Just to open a messaging app ...
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April 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There is no compression algorithm for experience. During the power outage in Spain and Portugal, the local AWS datacentres kept humming thanks to careful planning and preparation.
Remember: Everything fails, all the time, so plan for failure and nothing fails.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinm...
Remember: Everything fails, all the time, so plan for failure and nothing fails.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinm...
It is a pity I don't really track much of the NFL any more, because this is quite cool: 2025 NFL Draft IQ Live Draft Board - Inside an NFL Draft War Room powered by #AWS www.nfl.com/draft/iq/
2025 NFL Draft IQ | Powered by Amazon QuickSight
Explore Draft IQ, an interactive, data-driven dashboard from Next Gen Stats that predicts all 32 team big boards ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.
www.nfl.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It is a pity I don't really track much of the NFL any more, because this is quite cool: 2025 NFL Draft IQ Live Draft Board - Inside an NFL Draft War Room powered by #AWS www.nfl.com/draft/iq/
Interfaces should adapt to humans, not the other way around. The AI-native SDKs for #Alexa+ remove NLU complexity so builders can focus on innovation, not invocation patterns. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/04/alex...
Alexa+ gets us a step closer to ambient interfaces
The vision was to build the Star Trek computer. 10 years ago that was an ambitious goal. We’ve come a long way since then - from basic voice commands to much more conversational interfaces with Alexa+...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Interfaces should adapt to humans, not the other way around. The AI-native SDKs for #Alexa+ remove NLU complexity so builders can focus on innovation, not invocation patterns. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/04/alex...
Remember that no matter how secure your platform is… (and congrats to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social & @signal.org for providing a service that obviously meets the most secure communication requirements)
March 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Remember that no matter how secure your platform is… (and congrats to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social & @signal.org for providing a service that obviously meets the most secure communication requirements)
The new Frugal Architect podcast features @watchduty.org. A tech-first non-profit that proves you just need the right tools to achieve your mission. From a handful of volunteers to millions of users across 22 states, their choices speak volumes. www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/j...
Born from fire and frustration: Watch Duty keeps the tech simple
Watch Duty's mission to deliver real-time emergency information works backward from a simple truth: during a disaster, people need clear, reliable updates to make life-critical decisions. When your fo...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The new Frugal Architect podcast features @watchduty.org. A tech-first non-profit that proves you just need the right tools to achieve your mission. From a handful of volunteers to millions of users across 22 states, their choices speak volumes. www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/j...
On #PiDay (Amazon S3's 19th birthday), Andy Warfield takes us through S3's evolution from simple object store to sophisticated data platform. A fascinating look at how customer feedback shapes our services and how we maintain simplicity at massive scale. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s...
In S3 simplicity is table stakes
From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
On #PiDay (Amazon S3's 19th birthday), Andy Warfield takes us through S3's evolution from simple object store to sophisticated data platform. A fascinating look at how customer feedback shapes our services and how we maintain simplicity at massive scale. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s...
Welcome to the new #AWS Heroes! aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ne...
New year, new Heroes – March 2025 | Amazon Web Services
As we dive into 2025, we’re thrilled to announce our latest group of AWS Heroes! These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding expertise and innovation, and are committed to sharing know...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Welcome to the new #AWS Heroes! aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ne...
Congrats to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton for receiving the 2024 @TheOfficialACM Turing Award. They introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed the algorithms for reinforcement learning. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...
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March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Congrats to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton for receiving the 2024 @TheOfficialACM Turing Award. They introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed the algorithms for reinforcement learning. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...