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Author: Brian Beach
Brian Beach has over 20 years of experience as a Developer and Architect. He is currently a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from NYU Poly and an MBA from Rutgers Business School. He is the author of “Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services” from Apress. He is a regular author and has spoken at numerous events. Brian lives in North Carolina with his wife and three kids.
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Announcing support for upgrades to Java 21 in Amazon Q Developer
On February 14, Amazon Q Developer announced support for upgrades to Java 21. As a Java developer, I’m excited about this new capability, which will make it easier for me to keep my applications up-to-date and take advantage of the latest language features and performance improvements. In addition, the latest version of Amazon Q Developer […]
Take control of your code with Amazon Q Developer’s new context features
In this blog post, I dive into the powerful new features of Amazon Q Developer that empower developers to take full control of their development workflow. These features, currently available in Visual Studio Code, allow you to leverage workspace context, explicit context, prompt libraries, and project rules to streamline your software projects, maintain coding standards, […]
A lightning fast, new agentic coding experience within the Amazon Q Developer CLI
Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced an enhanced CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI). With this announcement, Q Developer brings the latest agentic experience to the CLI that provide a more dynamic, interactive coding experience that works with you, and iteratively makes changes based on your feedback. Amazon Q Developer can […]
The most visited DevOps and Developer Productivity blog posts in 2024
Read our top ten 2024 posts: effortlessly migrate to AWS CDK; import applications into CloudFormation; Terraform deployments; streamline AWS DevOps; gain insights on CloudFormation optimizations, GitHub Action runners at scale, and AI-powered coding workflows.
re:Invent 2024 DevOps and Developer Productivity Playlist
The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track along with Jessie VanderVeen, Krishna Dalal, Megan Sattler and countless others. For 2024, the DOP track included 60 sessions. If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand […]
Introducing the new Amazon Q Developer experience in AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda recently announced a new code editor based on Code-OSS. Like the previous version, the new editor includes Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development that can help you build and debug Lambda functions more quickly. In this post, I provide an overview of Amazon Q Developer’s […]
How to identify inactive users of Amazon Q Developer
Generative AI is leading to many new features and capabilities. As a result, your employees may not know about all the new tools you are deploying. I was recently working with a customer that had deployed Amazon Q Developer for all their software developers. However, many developers didn’t know they had access to the productivity […]
re:Invent 2023 DevOps and Developer Productivity Playlist
The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track along with Jessie VanderVeen, Anubhav Rao and countless others. For 2022, the DOP track included 59 sessions. If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand sessions for […]
The most visited AWS DevOps blog posts in 2023
As we kick off 2024, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2023. Without further ado, here are the top 10 AWS DevOps blog posts of 2023. Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services – When building serverless event-driven applications using AWS Lambda, it is best practice to […]