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Explore Chris Ebert's blog on AWS, serverless architecture, and cloud computing, blending business and professional expertise with a passion for continued learning.

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See what your AI coding agent is doing with Datadog Lapdog

Datadog Lapdog is a free tool that gives you real-time visibility into what your AI coding agents are doing. Here's how to install it, pair it with Claude Code, and drill into a real session to see prompts, tool calls, token costs, and which model handled each step.

Code with Claude 2026 recordings now available

Anthropic posted the Code with Claude 2026 session recordings. Here's a curated rundown of the sessions, workshop repos, and conference articles worth your time.

Notes from Code with Claude 2026

I attended Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco on May 6th. Here's what I learned about context management, the shifting bottlenecks in software engineering, and what it looks like to run an AI-native engineering org.

Another AWS re:Invent 2025 Is in the Books

In this post I share my experience attending the AWS re:Invent 2025 Conference in person.

Comparing AWS Lambda Arm64 vs x86_64 Performance Across Multiple Runtimes in Late 2025

See how AWS Lambda arm64 stacks up against x86_64 in real-world benchmarks across CPU, memory, and I/O workloads using Node.js, Python, and Rust.

Testing MCP Servers with MCP Inspector

MCP Inspector is a free browser tool for testing and debugging MCP servers. See raw messages, inspect schemas, and understand how LLMs use your tools.

Giving AWS Q Developer CLI a second look

Amazon Q Developer has undergone significant evolution since its 2024 debut. After revisiting it for the AWS Build Games Challenge, I was impressed with its improvements. In this article, I highlight why it's worth giving Q CLI a try.

Building an AI Agent with AWS Bedrock for U.S. National Parks

Learn to build an AI agent with AWS Bedrock and the National Parks API in this hands-on guide to agentic software development.

How AWS re:Invent 2024 Sparked My Journey Into Agentic Software

Agentic Software was one of the AWS re:Invent 2024 topics that most inspired me. Find out why in this blog post.

2024 in Review: Challenges, Achievements, and the Journey to Better Health in 2025

A reflective review of 2024, highlighting key achievements and accomplishments while setting the stage for a healthier and balanced 2025.

Book Review: The Software Architect Elevator

A review of Gregor Hohpe's The Software Architect Elevator.

Using Multiple AWS Accounts for Personal Projects

Explore AWS multi-account management and which approach makes sense when managing personal accounts.

Navigating 2024 Email Requirements

Starting in February 2024, Gmail and Yahoo Mail set the stage for a significant shift in email communication standards by enforcing new requirements for bulk email senders. This move by two of the Internet's email giants will likely encourage other providers to follow their lead. Gmail and Yahoo

Replace AWS Secrets in GitHub with OpenID Connect

When integrating GitHub Actions Workflows with an AWS account, you'll need a way to authorize Actions to assume an IAM role. A straightforward way to authenticate is by creating an IAM user with an access key and then sharing the access key ID and secret as GitHub Actions

Starting a new blog!

Chris Ebert is starting a new blog focused on cloud technologies, focusing on AWS and serverless systems, and his journey in tech.