A developer built Madame Minou, a French cat astrologer app, using Kiro and Amazon Bedrock during a Paris hackathon. The app computes a cat's sun sign deterministically in code, then uses AI to genera…
MailKite launches an Amazon SES alternative for AI agents, providing parsed JSON inbound emails and a receive-think-reply loop without the need for MIME parsing or S3 buckets, while SES requires sandb…
A developer proposes a cost-optimized architecture for multi-tenant SaaS on AWS that demotes Aurora PostgreSQL from the center of every request to a thin control plane, allowing it to sleep when idle.…
A developer built Groundswell, a global daily opinion platform, in 72 hours using Next.js, Aurora DSQL, DynamoDB, and Amazon Bedrock. The project encountered several critical mistakes, including assum…
A developer built Truss, a B2C SaaS for content creators, using a single DynamoDB table to model six entities including users, videos, clips, streams, analytics, and platform tokens. The single-table …
Solace built a two-stage AI triage system that uses Amazon Bedrock (Claude) to produce a provisional Emergency Severity Index (ESI) from a patient's own words, then refines it with a conformal ML ense…
Solace, an AI patient intake and triage app for emergency departments, runs on AWS managed services with human-facing apps on Vercel. The stack includes Lambda (FastAPI on ARM64), DynamoDB, S3, Bedroc…
A developer built a real-time AI recommendation agent using AWS Bedrock, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3. The system reacts to streaming user behavior within seconds, updating recommendation sets asynchrono…
Decision records are emerging as a critical memory layer in AI-assisted software development, capturing not just what was built but why, as AI tools make code cheaper to generate and easier to refacto…
A developer built a full-stack B2B Dutch-auction marketplace in three days using V0, Next.js 16, and Vercel's AWS integration. The project revealed that V0 excels at generating multi-page UI from deta…
A developer built ChatScroll for the AWS H0 Hackathon, an app that uses Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector to create a personal AI knowledge base. The app saves AI answers as searchable 'Scrolls' …
A developer built ChemSpectra Agent, an FTIR spectral analysis system that uses a ReAct loop with Qwen-3.7-Max function calling to autonomously select from five analytical tools and self-verify its co…
A developer discovered that their DynamoDB table for an AI anti-counterfeiting platform had a hot partition anti-pattern, where all operation logs wrote to a single partition key, risking throughput l…
A developer tested AWS Blocks, a new public preview from AWS, on a production Amplify Gen2 project with 40+ models. They found Blocks is additive, not a migration, and allows local DynamoDB developmen…
Amazon S3 Annotations, introduced in June 2026, allow mutable, structured payloads up to 1 MB each to be attached directly to S3 objects, enabling context like transcripts and meeting minutes to live …
AWS veteran and DynamoDB, Lambda, and API Gateway builder Randall Hunt reflects on 20 years of making developers' lives easier, now applying lessons to agentic AI. He advocates spec-driven development…
AWS launched Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework in public preview, designed for AI agents to build backends with local-first development and zero-infrastructure-code deployment to AWS service…
A developer identified an N+1 trigger pattern where multiple Lambda functions hammer the same DynamoDB partition key, causing latency spikes. The Infrawise tool uses AST parsing and API calls to build…
A developer's guide compares PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases, explaining their architectures, use cases, and performance characteristics. The article clarifies that PostgreSQL and MySQL are bot…
At AWS Summit Los Angeles 2026, a developer building with Kiro learned the importance of spec-driven development during a lab led by AWS Senior Technical Instructor Clayton Markos. The developer reali…