The Dork Blog
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Scaling your money safely with AI
Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents
This blog post is the third of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available
Today, Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances are generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. R9g instances are memory-optimized and deliver up to 25% better
Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS
As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize their digital estates, applications, data, and infrastructure increasingly span multiple cloud environments. Customers are choosing the best platform
Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI
Business leaders are facing a familiar challenge at an unfamiliar scale. Every organization is being asked to move faster as markets change quickly, customer expectations
AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company
Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs
Summary This post is for technical decision makers evaluating where to run production PostgreSQL workloads. It compares two valid operating models—self-managed PostgreSQL and a managed
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost
This blog post is the second of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to
Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2
Twenty years ago today, Jeff Barr wrote a blog post that launched the Amazon EC2 Beta. That single post introduced resizable Linux virtual servers in