Justin Plock
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Justin Plock
@plock.social
· Nov 14
I created an AWS Starter Pack with people passionate about, working for, or previously employed by AWS who still post about.
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The recording is available and, as expected, it is exceptionally good! It will genuinely ignite (or re-ignite) your enthusiasm for being an engineer! Thank you, @bcantrill.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The recording is available and, as expected, it is exceptionally good! It will genuinely ignite (or re-ignite) your enthusiasm for being an engineer! Thank you, @bcantrill.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
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Reposted by Justin Plock
I'll make this even more simple: Many (most?) of us in the security engineering world who have taken even a cursory look at this browser would advise colleagues & friends to avoid it at all costs. It's a privacy and product security dumpster fire.
The Atlas browser can act as your "agent" online, doing tasks like shopping or booking tickets. But that gives it access to a lot of personal information.
OpenAI's new web browser has ChatGPT baked in. That's raising some privacy questions
The Atlas browser can act as your "agent" online, doing tasks like shopping or booking tickets. But that gives it access to a lot of personal information.
n.pr
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'll make this even more simple: Many (most?) of us in the security engineering world who have taken even a cursory look at this browser would advise colleagues & friends to avoid it at all costs. It's a privacy and product security dumpster fire.
A DHH post I agree with. I wish more US employers offered sabbaticals as a benefit.
world.hey.com/dhh/sabbatic...
world.hey.com/dhh/sabbatic...
Sabbaticals keep our attrition at bay
The only way many tech workers in the US can get a long break is by quitting their job. So lots of them do that every few years, which is partly why the average tenure in our industry is at an atrocio...
world.hey.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A DHH post I agree with. I wish more US employers offered sabbaticals as a benefit.
world.hey.com/dhh/sabbatic...
world.hey.com/dhh/sabbatic...
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Slides for my #taloscon2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/th...
The Complexity of Simplicity
Talk given at TalosCon in Amsterdam on October 17, 2025. Video to come.
speakerdeck.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Slides for my #taloscon2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/th...
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New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore).
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Seven Years of Firecracker - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
September 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore).
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
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The best years of your life are ahead of you. Also: don't overthink everything. You really can't control things, not even if you become a billionaire, look how crazy they go trying. Live, do your best day to day, be kind to yourself, and don't put things off hoping for the perfect moment.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
September 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The best years of your life are ahead of you. Also: don't overthink everything. You really can't control things, not even if you become a billionaire, look how crazy they go trying. Live, do your best day to day, be kind to yourself, and don't put things off hoping for the perfect moment.
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🍣 Never ordered tamago until Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Apprentice made 200+ before Jiro approved.
Progress depends on unreasonable people. Startups are unreasonable by definition, but beware of becoming a toxic culture!
foundersinthecloud.com/p/unreasonable
Progress depends on unreasonable people. Startups are unreasonable by definition, but beware of becoming a toxic culture!
foundersinthecloud.com/p/unreasonable
Unreasonable
Startup founders and the journey into obsessive vision and execution
www.foundersinthecloud.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
🍣 Never ordered tamago until Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Apprentice made 200+ before Jiro approved.
Progress depends on unreasonable people. Startups are unreasonable by definition, but beware of becoming a toxic culture!
foundersinthecloud.com/p/unreasonable
Progress depends on unreasonable people. Startups are unreasonable by definition, but beware of becoming a toxic culture!
foundersinthecloud.com/p/unreasonable
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Calling all students who are passionate about technology! 🎯
Exciting opportunity: become an AWS Cloud Club Captain and build a community while boosting your skills and creating opportunities for cloud learning on your campus.
Apply now! 👉 go.aws/4p6emhW
Exciting opportunity: become an AWS Cloud Club Captain and build a community while boosting your skills and creating opportunities for cloud learning on your campus.
Apply now! 👉 go.aws/4p6emhW
September 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Calling all students who are passionate about technology! 🎯
Exciting opportunity: become an AWS Cloud Club Captain and build a community while boosting your skills and creating opportunities for cloud learning on your campus.
Apply now! 👉 go.aws/4p6emhW
Exciting opportunity: become an AWS Cloud Club Captain and build a community while boosting your skills and creating opportunities for cloud learning on your campus.
Apply now! 👉 go.aws/4p6emhW
Alien Earth S1 E5: Amateur Hour
September 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Alien Earth S1 E5: Amateur Hour
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AWS IAM introduces three new global condition keys (aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, aws:VpceOrgID) to help establish network perimeter controls through VPC endpoints with scalable and granular access management.
AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls
AWS IAM introduces three new global condition keys (aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, aws:VpceOrgID) to help establish network perimeter controls through VPC endpoints with scalable and granular access management.
aws-news.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AWS IAM introduces three new global condition keys (aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, aws:VpceOrgID) to help establish network perimeter controls through VPC endpoints with scalable and granular access management.
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State of Python 2025 Is Out!
Explore the key trends and actionable ideas from the latest Python Developers Survey, which was conducted jointly by the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains PyCharm and includes insights from over 30,000 developers.
blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/202...
Explore the key trends and actionable ideas from the latest Python Developers Survey, which was conducted jointly by the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains PyCharm and includes insights from over 30,000 developers.
blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/202...
The State of Python 2025 | The PyCharm Blog
Discover the latest Python trends and predictions backed by a survey of over 30,000 developers.
blog.jetbrains.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
State of Python 2025 Is Out!
Explore the key trends and actionable ideas from the latest Python Developers Survey, which was conducted jointly by the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains PyCharm and includes insights from over 30,000 developers.
blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/202...
Explore the key trends and actionable ideas from the latest Python Developers Survey, which was conducted jointly by the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains PyCharm and includes insights from over 30,000 developers.
blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/202...
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🚀 Dropwizard 4.0.15 has been released! #Java #Dropwizard
Release Notes: https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/releases/tag/v4.0.15
Release Notes: https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/releases/tag/v4.0.15
July 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚀 Dropwizard 4.0.15 has been released! #Java #Dropwizard
Release Notes: https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/releases/tag/v4.0.15
Release Notes: https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/releases/tag/v4.0.15
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A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]
Original post on mastodon.jepsen.io
mastodon.jepsen.io
June 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]
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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...
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This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
blog.swgillespie.me
May 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
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It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...
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Thanks to AWS's Sergey Melnik, as well as HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, we now know that Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters is caused by a disagreement between primaries and secondaries on the order in which transactions become visible […]
Original post on mastodon.jepsen.io
mastodon.jepsen.io
May 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thanks to AWS's Sergey Melnik, as well as HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, we now know that Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters is caused by a disagreement between primaries and secondaries on the order in which transactions become visible […]
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We're hiring!
I wrote up more details about the open roles and some hiring process advice on LinkedIn. I don't want to copy/paste it all here so here's a link for you!
www.linkedin.com/posts/sudoma...
I wrote up more details about the open roles and some hiring process advice on LinkedIn. I don't want to copy/paste it all here so here's a link for you!
www.linkedin.com/posts/sudoma...
Join the team that's changing computing forever! oxide.computer/careers
April 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We're hiring!
I wrote up more details about the open roles and some hiring process advice on LinkedIn. I don't want to copy/paste it all here so here's a link for you!
www.linkedin.com/posts/sudoma...
I wrote up more details about the open roles and some hiring process advice on LinkedIn. I don't want to copy/paste it all here so here's a link for you!
www.linkedin.com/posts/sudoma...
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Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS, allowing customers to use their own keys to encrypt tables and meet regulatory requirements.
Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS with customer-managed keys
Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS, allowing customers to use their own keys to encrypt tables and meet regulatory requirements.
aws-news.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Amazon S3 Tables now support server-side encryption using AWS KMS, allowing customers to use their own keys to encrypt tables and meet regulatory requirements.
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medium.com/@dksoni4530/...
When accessing AWS accounts using GitHub Actions temporary credentials are important. Many teams generate permanent access keys and use these to allow GitHub to perform operations in AWS but these keys could be used by anyone else if they were able to obtain them.(1️⃣/3️⃣)
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When accessing AWS accounts using GitHub Actions temporary credentials are important. Many teams generate permanent access keys and use these to allow GitHub to perform operations in AWS but these keys could be used by anyone else if they were able to obtain them.(1️⃣/3️⃣)
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Setting OIDC for GitHub Actions Workflows with AWS Using Terraform
Setting OIDC for GitHub Actions Workflows with AWS Using Terraform
medium.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
medium.com/@dksoni4530/...
When accessing AWS accounts using GitHub Actions temporary credentials are important. Many teams generate permanent access keys and use these to allow GitHub to perform operations in AWS but these keys could be used by anyone else if they were able to obtain them.(1️⃣/3️⃣)
🧵
When accessing AWS accounts using GitHub Actions temporary credentials are important. Many teams generate permanent access keys and use these to allow GitHub to perform operations in AWS but these keys could be used by anyone else if they were able to obtain them.(1️⃣/3️⃣)
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New @frame.work 13" is suppose to ship next month. I'm excited to try out Bluefin and Omakub
projectbluefin.io
omakub.org
projectbluefin.io
omakub.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
New @frame.work 13" is suppose to ship next month. I'm excited to try out Bluefin and Omakub
projectbluefin.io
omakub.org
projectbluefin.io
omakub.org
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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.
www.allthingsdistributed.com
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...