The Last Dev ~ Cloud Updates #8
Alongside the format, I am also changing the name of this series. The idea is to express my personal opinion on some updates that I found interesting, and showcase some local events and articles.
News
There have been two exciting announcements about Amazon Q Developer in the past week. It seems that AWS properly focuses on LLMs and is starting to catch up with the competition. First of all, Amazon Q Developer CLI now supports MCP, allowing you to have a customized response regarding code generation. Additionally, Amazon Q Developer offers an agentic experience in IDEs. The new coding experience provides intelligent task execution, enabling Q Developer to perform actions beyond code suggestions, such as modifying files, generating code diffs, and running commands based on your natural language instructions. Available in VS Code and JetBrains.
Last but not least, a massive quality of life upgrade in my opinion, is that EC2 Image Builder now integrates with SSM Parameter Store. This streamlines the way you build your custom images and their maintenance. This new feature comes at no additional cost.
Events
20th of May: The Mondelez International Cloud Engineering team will speak at the AWS User Group in Athens. FinOps in Practice: Managing AWS Costs at Scale
7-9 May: Panathenea event. You can get tickets from here. The agenda can be found here.
AWS Community Day Adria: Registration has opened. This event will be on the 5th of September, and it will have excellent speakers! Jeff Barr will be doing the keynote. There is also a call for speakers.
Interesting Posts
is exploring the 6 R’s and showcasing the different approaches to migrating your applications to the cloud. This is something that anyone who aspires to migrate workloads to the cloud (any cloud) should know. is comparing Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg. Understanding how these two data formats work to build a Data Lake is good. My favourite is Apache Iceberg, which makes it very easy to manage with Amazon S3 Tables.
Last but not last, this is my first official blog post after a looooong time. I hope you like it!
Learning ECS the fun way ~ Hosting a Minecraft Server
In this post, I will create a Minecraft server, but not from a paid service that provides servers, not locally on my computer, and certainly not by hand in a virtual machine. I will try to create the server using Infrastructure as Code and a Cloud provider.
A sneak peek of my next posts:
Managing data at scale with a fraction of the cost
Optimizing your data format
Reduce operational burden for managing Apache Iceberg
Till the next time, stay safe and have fun!
Hey! Thank you for the shout out :)
Thanks for the shout out Konstantinos!