Software Engineering, Architecture and AWS Serverless Technology from makit

Hello, I'm Martyn Kilbryde

I love to talk about Software Engineering and Architecture, especially exploring Serverless & Machine Learning technology

Software Engineering, Architecture and AWS Serverless Technology from makit
Running a Strands Agent on Lambda to Tag Product Reviews
Oct 26, 25
Running a Strands Agent on Lambda to Tag Product Reviews
Demo of Strands Agents on Lambda, using Bedrock to summarise reviews into actionable Pros and Cons for your frontend.
Migrating from a Monolith to EDA on AWS
Sep 21, 25
Migrating from a Monolith to EDA on AWS
Migrating from a monolith to an event-driven architecture unlocks agility, but it comes with challenges. Let me share how we used AWS EventBridge, feature flags, and dark launches to modernise safely
Serverless Security - Cognito Misconfigurations
Jul 28, 24
Serverless Security - Cognito Misconfigurations
Serverless technology comes with great security by default, but security still needs baking in like any other piece of software. In this article I look into some possible misconfigurations you can do with Cognito that can spell trouble for your web application.
Building an Amazon Bedrock JIRA Agent with Source Code Knowledge Base - Part 2
Jan 16, 24
Building an Amazon Bedrock JIRA Agent with Source Code Knowledge Base - Part 2
Using Agents for Amazon Bedrock to interact with JIRA is surprisingly powerful, especially with the ability to add comments and create new tasks. Giving the same agent access to source code using RAG takes it to another level.
Building an Amazon Bedrock JIRA Agent with Source Code Knowledge Base - Part 1
Dec 28, 23
Building an Amazon Bedrock JIRA Agent with Source Code Knowledge Base - Part 1
Amazon released the Bedrock service to give access to multiple foundation models via a generalised API. During 2023 they released two features within this service that I wanted to try; native Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge bases.
Exploring Advanced Logging Controls for AWS Lambda
Dec 4, 23
Exploring Advanced Logging Controls for AWS Lambda
AWS recently released some new advanced logging controls for the AWS Lambda service. These allow functions to log in JSON format natively, as well as offering native log level support and options for the log group to use.
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