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Marc Brooker of AWS on distributed systems, databases and serverless.

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Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes
October 23rd, 2026•brooker.co.za
Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?
October 4th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model
September 28th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?
July 29th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
July 19th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Meet Alice. Alice is impatient.
June 19th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Is this blog written by AI?
June 18th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Agentic software development hypothesis
May 20th, 2026•brooker.co.za
What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now?
May 18th, 2026•brooker.co.za
It's time to be right.
April 30th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Spec Driven Development isn't Waterfall
April 9th, 2026•brooker.co.za
What about juniors?
March 25th, 2026•brooker.co.za
My heuristics are wrong. What now?
March 20th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Music To Build Agents By
March 18th, 2026•brooker.co.za
SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness
February 25th, 2026•brooker.co.za
You Are Here
February 7th, 2026•brooker.co.za
Pass@k is Mostly Bunk
January 21st, 2026•brooker.co.za
Agent Safety is a Box
January 12th, 2026•brooker.co.za
On the success of 'natural language programming'
December 16th, 2025•brooker.co.za
What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
December 15th, 2025•brooker.co.za