The AWS MCP Server is now generally available

by | May 6, 2026 | AWS

I have been building with AI agents and MCP tools for a while now, and one question kept coming up: how do you give an agent real, authenticated access to AWS without handing it the keys to the kingdom? Today, there is an answer. I’m happy to announce the general...

Designing front-end systems for cloud failure

by | May 6, 2026 | Cloud

Modern frontend applications rely on cloud services for far more than basic data fetching. Authentication, search, file uploads, feature flags, notifications and analytics often depend on APIs and managed services running behind the scenes. Because of that, frontend...

Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry

by | May 6, 2026 | Cloud

At first glance, Microsoft Foundry looks like a big grab bag of every AI-adjacent service that Microsoft has offered in the last decade, plus some new ones. In Microsoft’s own words, “Foundry consolidates several previous Azure AI services and tools into a unified...

No, AI won’t destroy software development jobs

by | May 6, 2026 | Cloud

I’m not even remotely worried about AI eliminating software development jobs. In fact, I’m pretty sure there will soon be a boom in both software development jobs and the amount of software available to everyone.  People have always worried about automation causing...