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The AWS GameDay challenge with Terraform
You’re the cloud engineer for a booming startup. You’ve built your infrastructure, your Terraform code is looking clean — and then… “Something” happens and now it’s a race against time (and your own sanity) to fix it before the leaderboard locks. Welcome to AWS GameDay: the hands-on, team-based challenge where technical professionals sharpen their real-world AWS and Terraform skills in a dynamic, gamified environment. No step-by-step instructions. No hand-holding. Just you, your team, and a fast-moving cloud infrastructure scenario where every decision counts. ...
EP161: A Cheatsheet on REST API Design Best Practices
WorkOS + MCP: Authorization for AI Agents (Sponsored)Wide-open access to every tool on your MCP server is a major security risk. Unchecked access can quickly lead to serious incidents. Teams need a fast, easy way to lock down access with roles and permissions. WorkOS AuthKit makes it simple with RBAC — assign roles, enforce permissions, and control exactly who can access critical tools. ...
Amplify Initiative: Localized data for globalized AI
Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> At GitHub, we’re committed to making our tools truly accessible for every developer, regardless of ability or toolset. The command line interface (CLI) is a vital part of the developer experience, and the GitHub CLI is our product that brings the power of GitHub to your terminal. When it comes to accessibility, the terminal is fundamentally different from a web browser or a graphical user interface, with a lineage that predates the web itself. While standards like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a clear path for making web and graphical applications accessible, there is no equivalent, comprehensive standard for the terminal and CLIs. The W3C offers some high-level guidance for non-web software, but it stops short of prescribing concrete techniques, leaving much open to interpretation and innovation. ...
Daily Reading List – May 2, 2025 (#544)
Did you have a busy week? Most of us have a lot going on. Take a breather this weekend and make sure you do whatever recharges you! [blog] Fine-tune an LLM: Why, when, and how. This can feel like an intimidating topic, but these folks have made a very readable guide to some key ideas. [article] Mark Zuckerberg ‘predicts’ AI will write most of Meta’s code within 12 to 18 months. I dunno. A weird message for your engineers to hear! ...
Dew Drop – May 2, 2025 (#4411)
Top Links Packaging and Publishing a .NET MAUI Library with GitHub Actions (Sweeky Satpathy & David Ortinau) Azure AI Foundry: Your GPS for the changing AI landscape (Jessica Hawk) There’s a Linux File Explorer built into Visual Studio!?! (Sinem Akinci) Announcing PostSharp 2025.1 and Announcing Metalama 2025.1: Going Open Source! (Gael Fraiteur) Modernizing Project Files with AI: A Success Story from the .NET Team (Cathy Sullivan, Mukund Raghav Sharma & Jackson Schuster) The Hanselminutes Podcast – Making SNES ROMS with C# and Matthew Shapiro’s DotnetSnes (Scott Hanselman) One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI (Weizhu Chen & Ece Kamar) ...
Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
AMIE gains vision: A research AI agent for multimodal diagnostic dialogue
Announcing HCP Terraform Premium: Infrastructure Lifecycle Management at scale
Today, we’re excited to announce HCP Terraform Premium, now generally available to extend the capabilities of HCP Terraform, offering powerful features that enable organizations to scale their infrastructure automation securely and efficiently. Enterprises looking to maximize their IT investments need solutions that can simplify operations, reduce risk, and optimize cost — all while meeting strict governance and compliance requirements. HCP Terraform Premium is designed to help enterprises with their Infrastructure Lifecycle Management at high scale and includes everything from the Standard and Plus plans, with additional features: ...