David Smith
@davidfsmith.bsky.social
Technologist // Trackboss // ex AWS // ex DevEx Connect
All opinions are my own
All opinions are my own
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David Smith
@davidfsmith.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Special thanks to Raul for sharing this clip from 2019 where I was outsmarted and outrun by an #AWSDeepRacer on a mission to remain free.
DeepRacer 1, Trackboss 0 ;-)
DeepRacer 1, Trackboss 0 ;-)
Fun morning down at Hove Lagoon
August 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Fun morning down at Hove Lagoon
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Our next AI in Practice event is live on Meetup - 26 Aug!
🎤 Anton Nazaruk & Ivaylo Iliev, From Zero to HyperPod
🎤 Silvia Lehnis, Beyond Prompt Optimisation
www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #MLOps #GenAI #LLMs #AI
🎤 Anton Nazaruk & Ivaylo Iliev, From Zero to HyperPod
🎤 Silvia Lehnis, Beyond Prompt Optimisation
www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #MLOps #GenAI #LLMs #AI
August 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Our next AI in Practice event is live on Meetup - 26 Aug!
🎤 Anton Nazaruk & Ivaylo Iliev, From Zero to HyperPod
🎤 Silvia Lehnis, Beyond Prompt Optimisation
www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #MLOps #GenAI #LLMs #AI
🎤 Anton Nazaruk & Ivaylo Iliev, From Zero to HyperPod
🎤 Silvia Lehnis, Beyond Prompt Optimisation
www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #MLOps #GenAI #LLMs #AI
Epic wipeout whilst wakeboarding today, glad for the crash helmet and impact vest
July 26, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Epic wipeout whilst wakeboarding today, glad for the crash helmet and impact vest
Cracking start to the session - youtu.be/B8mze0i8eAo
Hove Lagoon - Wakeboarding - 20260718 - Run 3
YouTube video by David Smith
youtu.be
July 18, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Cracking start to the session - youtu.be/B8mze0i8eAo
I’ve just got a Claude Max account - I still hit some of the session usage limits but it’s just a case of going for a walk or grabbing a brew and then carrying on ;-)
Of late, I keep burning through GitHub Copilot’s monthly allowance way too quickly with some agentic coding.
Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
July 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I’ve just got a Claude Max account - I still hit some of the session usage limits but it’s just a case of going for a walk or grabbing a brew and then carrying on ;-)
Reposted by David Smith
Of late, I keep burning through GitHub Copilot’s monthly allowance way too quickly with some agentic coding.
Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
July 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Of late, I keep burning through GitHub Copilot’s monthly allowance way too quickly with some agentic coding.
Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Just checked my bucket list and realised I’m really very boring
July 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Just checked my bucket list and realised I’m really very boring
Love being told to “kill yourself” by my son
July 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Love being told to “kill yourself” by my son
Reposted by David Smith
AWS UG UK is back, 15th July. Guilherme Dalla Rosa (MerCloud) on secure multi-tenant SaaS on AWS Serverless, plus Matt Johnson (MongoDB) on the engineering behind Atlas on AWS. meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #AWSCommunity #Serverless #Atlas #IAM #SaaS
June 24, 2026 at 2:17 PM
AWS UG UK is back, 15th July. Guilherme Dalla Rosa (MerCloud) on secure multi-tenant SaaS on AWS Serverless, plus Matt Johnson (MongoDB) on the engineering behind Atlas on AWS. meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #AWSCommunity #Serverless #Atlas #IAM #SaaS
Hove Lagoon - Wakeboarding - 20251031 - Run 1
YouTube video by David Smith
youtu.be
June 20, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Good morning early risers (yes, this is "early" to me - I know, I know you've been awake for hours…).
Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release.
Also, please share 🙏❣️
ffconf.org/cfp
Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release.
Also, please share 🙏❣️
ffconf.org/cfp
FFConf Call for Papers
FFConf is accepting talk proposals. Submissions are reviewed continuously; speakers receive travel & accommodation.
ffconf.org
June 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Good morning early risers (yes, this is "early" to me - I know, I know you've been awake for hours…).
Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release.
Also, please share 🙏❣️
ffconf.org/cfp
Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release.
Also, please share 🙏❣️
ffconf.org/cfp
Reposted by David Smith
Our latest videos are out!
Marina Kim on the reality of building AI agents on AWS Bedrock, and Damien Jones on shipping a live AWS platform in 5 weeks.
awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AIAgents #AmazonBedrock #GenAI
Marina Kim on the reality of building AI agents on AWS Bedrock, and Damien Jones on shipping a live AWS platform in 5 weeks.
awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AIAgents #AmazonBedrock #GenAI
June 15, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Our latest videos are out!
Marina Kim on the reality of building AI agents on AWS Bedrock, and Damien Jones on shipping a live AWS platform in 5 weeks.
awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AIAgents #AmazonBedrock #GenAI
Marina Kim on the reality of building AI agents on AWS Bedrock, and Damien Jones on shipping a live AWS platform in 5 weeks.
awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AIAgents #AmazonBedrock #GenAI
Reposted by David Smith
1 week to go!
🎤Marina Kim, AgentCore vs Reality: What really breaks when you ship AI agents on AWS
🎤Damien Jones, Best in Show: Zero to live AWS platform in 5 weeks with CDK, Amplify & Kiro www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AmazonBedrock #AIAgents
🎤Marina Kim, AgentCore vs Reality: What really breaks when you ship AI agents on AWS
🎤Damien Jones, Best in Show: Zero to live AWS platform in 5 weeks with CDK, Amplify & Kiro www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AmazonBedrock #AIAgents
June 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM
1 week to go!
🎤Marina Kim, AgentCore vs Reality: What really breaks when you ship AI agents on AWS
🎤Damien Jones, Best in Show: Zero to live AWS platform in 5 weeks with CDK, Amplify & Kiro www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AmazonBedrock #AIAgents
🎤Marina Kim, AgentCore vs Reality: What really breaks when you ship AI agents on AWS
🎤Damien Jones, Best in Show: Zero to live AWS platform in 5 weeks with CDK, Amplify & Kiro www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #AmazonBedrock #AIAgents
Bonjour from sunny rural France 🇫🇷
April 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Bonjour from sunny rural France 🇫🇷
Amused to be learning tmux and vim more now that I’m using AI for stuff
April 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Amused to be learning tmux and vim more now that I’m using AI for stuff
Realising “would you like to cover” when sitting in your hospital gown in a chair is not a request ;-)
March 26, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Realising “would you like to cover” when sitting in your hospital gown in a chair is not a request ;-)
Reposted by David Smith
100 devs, a $3B SaaS company, a few weeks. Daniel Jones shares what it really takes to shift teams into AI-native, multi-agent & why tools alone aren’t enough. www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWSCommunity #DevOps #AWS #AgenticCoding #AINativeEngineering
#AWSCommunity #DevOps #AWS #AgenticCoding #AINativeEngineering
March 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM
100 devs, a $3B SaaS company, a few weeks. Daniel Jones shares what it really takes to shift teams into AI-native, multi-agent & why tools alone aren’t enough. www.meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AWSCommunity #DevOps #AWS #AgenticCoding #AINativeEngineering
#AWSCommunity #DevOps #AWS #AgenticCoding #AINativeEngineering
Reposted by David Smith
Join us on 15th Apr for 2 great talks...
🎤 Alex Le Peltier - Real-Time Sign Language in the Cloud: Building Accessibility Infrastructure on AWS
🎤 Daniel Jones - Agentic Coding For 100 Developers
meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AI #AWS #AgenticAI #Accessibility #AWSCommunity #DevOps
🎤 Alex Le Peltier - Real-Time Sign Language in the Cloud: Building Accessibility Infrastructure on AWS
🎤 Daniel Jones - Agentic Coding For 100 Developers
meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AI #AWS #AgenticAI #Accessibility #AWSCommunity #DevOps
March 19, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Join us on 15th Apr for 2 great talks...
🎤 Alex Le Peltier - Real-Time Sign Language in the Cloud: Building Accessibility Infrastructure on AWS
🎤 Daniel Jones - Agentic Coding For 100 Developers
meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AI #AWS #AgenticAI #Accessibility #AWSCommunity #DevOps
🎤 Alex Le Peltier - Real-Time Sign Language in the Cloud: Building Accessibility Infrastructure on AWS
🎤 Daniel Jones - Agentic Coding For 100 Developers
meetup.com/awsuguk-ai-i...
#AI #AWS #AgenticAI #Accessibility #AWSCommunity #DevOps
New achievement unlocked - Just failed a captcha to join a teams call
March 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
New achievement unlocked - Just failed a captcha to join a teams call
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1 week to go! Two super practical talks + networking
🎤 Matt Johnson: When things go wrong: managing cloud costs
🎤 @codek1.bsky.social (Dan Keeley): Predictable data engineering on AWS
Grab your spot:
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #CloudCosts #DataEngineering #DevOps
🎤 Matt Johnson: When things go wrong: managing cloud costs
🎤 @codek1.bsky.social (Dan Keeley): Predictable data engineering on AWS
Grab your spot:
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #CloudCosts #DataEngineering #DevOps
March 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM
1 week to go! Two super practical talks + networking
🎤 Matt Johnson: When things go wrong: managing cloud costs
🎤 @codek1.bsky.social (Dan Keeley): Predictable data engineering on AWS
Grab your spot:
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #CloudCosts #DataEngineering #DevOps
🎤 Matt Johnson: When things go wrong: managing cloud costs
🎤 @codek1.bsky.social (Dan Keeley): Predictable data engineering on AWS
Grab your spot:
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #CloudCosts #DataEngineering #DevOps
Reposted by David Smith
Join Matt Johnson, London, Wed 11 Mar, 18:00 for “When things go wrong: Managing cost in the cloud”. Real-world AWS cost failures, tooling limits, and practical guardrails. www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #Devops #CostOptimization
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #Devops #CostOptimization
February 24, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Join Matt Johnson, London, Wed 11 Mar, 18:00 for “When things go wrong: Managing cost in the cloud”. Real-world AWS cost failures, tooling limits, and practical guardrails. www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #Devops #CostOptimization
#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #Devops #CostOptimization
Reposted by David Smith
Just dropped: the video of Paul Stack’s talk - “AI as Your New SRE: The Next Frontier of DevOps”
Watch here: awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AI #AWSCommunity #DevOps #CICD #SRE
Watch here: awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AI #AWSCommunity #DevOps #CICD #SRE
February 23, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Just dropped: the video of Paul Stack’s talk - “AI as Your New SRE: The Next Frontier of DevOps”
Watch here: awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AI #AWSCommunity #DevOps #CICD #SRE
Watch here: awsuguk.org/our-videos/
#AWS #AI #AWSCommunity #DevOps #CICD #SRE