Is There Any Bureaucracy This Week?

This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.

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Runner-up Titles

• It’s never stopped us before.
• Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment
• Three kinds of mayonnaise
• An aspirational architectural pattern.
• There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there.
• I don’t have a computer science degree.
• Mid-Code
• It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be?
• Is it a utopian Wall-E or not?

Rundown

• AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels
  • Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events
  • Design Patterns book
• ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
  • ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow?
  • Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil
  • Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore.

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Conferences

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