Works in AWS on Agentic AI and AWS DevOps Agent. Previously on CloudWatch, API Gateway, Lambda, IoT Core, DynamoDB
David Yanacek
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Bumper bowling is a better sport for agents than regular bowling: blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/31/a... (It's a metaphor for guardrails and feedback!)
This Star Trek podcast is the funniest and most entertaining podcast I know. If you like Star Trek and frequent “juvenile” humor, check it out. They’re just starting their SECOND walk of EVERY episode in the ENTIRE franchise. I’ve been listening to this podcast for 10 years now.
DuneOps Part 2: Crossing bloodlines. AI changes the math on the strengths and weaknesses of each operational model, from #DevOps, #SRE, #PlatformEngineering, by making it easier to borrow the strengths of each.
blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/16/d...
📚📚📚 New blog and post: "Dune as an operational model", aka #DuneOps. 📚📚📚
The best fighters in the Dune universe are born from the harshest environments. That philosophy has fun parallels to #DevOps, #SRE, #PlatformEngineering, and Frontline #Ops.
blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/10/d...
Check out @quinnypig.com's conversation with me on "The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent" on @lastweekinaws.com!
We talk #AWS history, #DevOps at @awscloud, and how we've encoded that into AWS DevOps Agent. All with Corey's quick wit.
www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...
Great UX for humans is still super important even in the age of frontier agents! This week, AWS DevOps Agent’s investigation view just got a nice “glow-up”, so check it out!
A bunch of features launched a couple weeks ago along with going GA so take a tour here: aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/ann...
In developer tooling, if a "rough edge" makes a tool hard to use, but a "sharp edge" makes a tool easy to accidentally misuse, then what kind of edge should a tool have?
Check out AWS DevOps Agent’s new Learned Skills features! The agent automatically generates skills about your system and learns from past investigations about using your tools.
Skills were just one of the many recent features we added - check it all out here: aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/ann...
“Server ops is annoying,” said Yanacek, a trim man of 42 with a gray beard and jittery intensity.
That is an accurate reflection of me that I had not considered before.
The story talks about how #AWSDevOpsAgent is making ops less annoying!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
Sure, AWS DevOps Agent just went GA, but we added a bunch of features at the same time, including Custom Skills, Learned Skills, Code Indexing - just to name a few! This video shows the new flexible On-Demand SRE Tasks in action.
More in the blog! aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/ann...
