Niko Virtala
Niko Virtala
@nikovirtala.io
Building better shopping experiences for retail | Principal Engineer at SOK | Randonneur 🚲
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the @kiro.dev CLI I run on the CloudShell can resume the chat but it feels a bit unnecessary...
they're trying to teach formal modeling to us! I don't complain 😁 kiro.dev/blog/propert...
Ever since I started working on AWS stuff 2017, I haven't missed a @wernervogels.bsky.social #reInvent keynote. Not this year either, even though the schedule was horrible — the keynote started at 1.30 am local time
Ever since I started working on AWS stuff 2017, I haven't missed a @wernervogels.bsky.social #reInvent keynote. Not this year either, even though the schedule was horrible — the keynote started at 1.30 am local time
has @github.com blocked creating new accounts in incognito mode? — verifying browser succeeds but then "Unable to verify your captcha response." is thrown
don't know who designed this feature, but at least it is not really personalized to **me** 🫠 my **easy** endurance ride is normally 2 hours 😅 today I rided 4+ hours and even that wasn't especially "hard": strava.app.link/3oDXkYMWSYb
when you break the @kiro.dev request quota, it still tries to generate "something" 😁 this was not intentional — just too many open IDEs open at the same time
I gave @kiro.dev autonomous agent a little maintenance task some hours ago and left it alone ... now it is almost ready 🙌 I perhaps would have get done it myself faster and with fewer mistakes — look at the commit history of this pull request 😄 github.com/nikovirtala/... #reInvent
slowly... @kiro.dev
nope. I just bought UAD Showtime '64 from their black friday sale, just to get disappointed a big time. the real deal, my handwired Princeton Reverb is still a light year ahead of this model
It really is an incredible time to be a guitarist who *doesn’t* want to own a bunch of $2,000 amps and an expensive pedalboard of gear.
@kiro.dev got powers! this sounds actually very nice and practical way to share your knowledge to both the AI agents as well as to your colleagues using those agents — time to reveal some secrets I guess? 😁 kiro.dev/blog/introdu... #reInvent
Strands Agents SDK will get #TypeScript support 🙌 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #reInvent
My gut feeling just told me we'll be using the new #Lambda durable functions a lot in near future — very nice release! 👏 But not perfect, where is my day one #awscdk support? 😁 docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/lates... #reInvent
do I or do you know the maintainer of the granted.dev tool?
hold on @awscloud.bsky.social since when serverless has been simple and instance flexible? 😂 aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in... #reInvent
Item-level access control for #DynamoDB — it is my long time wish from @awscloud.bsky.social do you think we will get it this year? #reInvent
if I don't tell, or use it without customizations, nobody can say if it was me or LLM — it is pretty easy to put LLM to produce things with your style
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
dunno who should hear this but the @awscloud.bsky.social cloudwatch application signals provides pretty good level of observability to your systems straight out of the box and only using the auto instrumentation — surprisingly easy way to get started with opentelemetry! 👏
Lambda Kafka Event Source has been somewhat behind in error handling capabilities compared to AWS native event sources, but not anymore: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... — we got configurable retries, bisect batch on function error, partial batch responses and Kafka as failure destination 🙌
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looks like I'm a full-time @kiro.dev user now — fun, but on the other hand nothing really changed 🤷♂️
psst @awscloud.bsky.social our level of expectation for standard observability just got higher
It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...
I was thinking this last summer and learned that it is a protest by farmers: www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
I wonder what was the thing with reversed town signs everywhere. #tcrno11