There is a point in many serverless platforms where a Step Functions workflow that once felt elegant starts to feel like a mini application platform of its own. I have seen this happen in teams that are doing many things correctly: they standardized orchestration, they improved visibility, and they moved fragile glue logic out of Lambdas. Then six months later, the workflow has 100+ states, a maze
If you've tried to follow any AI coding discussion in the last six months, you've probably felt like everyone suddenly started speaking a dialect you never signed up to learn. "Vibe coding." "Agentic workflows." "Context windows." "Prompt engineering." The jargon is multiplying faster than JavaScript frameworks, and that's saying something. Matt Pocock — who you might know from his TypeScript educ
Overview Let's get our hands dirty. This part covers the full setup and the actual demo: deploy PayLedger to both regions, wire up Route 53 failover, configure the Agent Space, inject three simultaneous faults, and walk through exactly what the agent found. Quick recap from Part 1: PayLedger is a demo payment ledger deployed to ap-southeast-1 (primary) and ap-northeast-1 (secondary) with Route 5
GitHub Copilot just got a lot more complicated — and not in a good way. If you tried to sign up for Copilot Pro recently and hit a wall, that's not a bug. GitHub quietly paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans starting in late April 2026. No end date announced. No workaround offered. Just a message and a door that won't open. That alone would be worth covering. But they made t
Anthropic now ships at least three different memory models inside the Claude product family, and they don't behave the same way. Claude.ai has a chat memory feature for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users that summarizes prior conversations and injects that summary into new chats. Claude Code has CLAUDE.md files plus a separate "auto memory" directory the model writes to itself, both loaded at se