Will Dady

Cloud Engineer

[Will Dady @WillDady]

@kushmergedeck https://t.co/o9iSW62W13

[Will Dady @WillDady]

@Joi2James https://t.co/xTOWGygV0G

[Will Dady @WillDady]

@spacedevin https://t.co/xTOWGyhsQe

[Will Dady @WillDady]

Platypus 3.14 is out. The version number is irrational, but the changes aren't.

There's a new one-line installer and if an MCP server can't be reached, a turn now uses its last-known tools. Plus 26 bug fixes. 🐞

#ai #aiagents #opensource #selfhosting

https://t.co/D7fvZPGLex

[Dan Kornas @DanKornas]

Running team AI agents shouldn’t mean handing your data to another SaaS.

Platypus is an open-source, self-hosted full-stack application for teams building AI agents on their own infrastructure and models.

It helps you assemble agents that can reason, call tools, and run on schedules by bundling agent configuration, reusable skills, sandboxed execution, and workspace controls in one application.

Key features:

• Agents, skills & sub-agents – define an agent’s model, instructions, and tools, then add reusable skills and delegated sub-agents
• MCP support – connect agents to local and remote data sources through Model Context Protocol
• Isolated sandbox – provide shell and filesystem access in a per-workspace environment, with Docker and SSH reference backends
• Schedules & webhooks – run agents on cron or one-off schedules and receive HMAC-signed callbacks with filtering and retries
• Provider choice – use hosted, proxied, or local models through providers including OpenAI-compatible endpoints

It’s open-source (MIT license).

Link in the reply 👇

[AWS Security @AWSSecurityInfo]

In this 2️⃣ part blog series, read along on how to migrate your secrets to #AWSSecretsManager and achieve a cloud-based and modern secrets management system 📊
https://t.co/HfhSHnk7Xq

[Will Dady @WillDady]

I've just open-sourced an AWS CDK app which uses Mozilla SOPS for centralising secret management. Securely store secrets in git and deploy to AWS Secrets Manager.

#AWS #SecOps #CDK

https://t.co/jrGZg2ofLo

[Will Dady @WillDady]

A post I wrote recently on scheduling the pausing of AWS App Runner services to save money in non-prod environments.
#AWS #AppRunner #CDK

https://t.co/1b4SK09QjB

[Will Dady @WillDady]

Minor update to this. Have now added an architecture diagram to better explain the inner workings of the CDK construct.

#AWS #AppRunner #CDK #opensource

https://t.co/pynAjV4zvI

[Will Dady @WillDady]

Thoughts on building an auth flow for an app which uses social providers only? No option to sign up/in with username and password. Is that bad for conversion?
#auth #oidc #oauth

[Will Dady @WillDady]

It's going to be interesting to see what happens with Reddit killing API access to third-party apps. With the slow death of Twitter too I wonder if this leaves room for something better to fill the void.

[Will Dady @WillDady]

I've just open-sourced a simple AWS CDK app which creates an EventBridge bus which can forward messages to targeted Slack channels.

Your apps can simply send messages to a custom bus to have them forwarded along to Slack. #AWS #Serverless #Slack

https://t.co/D8ZoG1EO6O

[Will Dady @WillDady]

New post I've written for @cevoaustralia , taking a look at some of the AWS services which have recently come online in the new Melbourne region.
#AWS #Melbourne #CloudComputing

https://t.co/3RgkT6B3Tx

[Will Dady @WillDady]

@AWSIdentity Cool. Can you improve the hosted UI next? It kinda sucks.

[Will Dady @WillDady]

I've just open-sourced a simple CDK app for scheduling the pausing of AWS App Runner services based on their tags.

Pausing services in dev environments overnight and on weekends is a great way to save on costs.

https://t.co/pynAjV4zvI

#AWS #AppRunner #CDK #opensource

[Will Dady @WillDady]

Anyone know if AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry still adds significant latency to Lambda cold starts? I really want to use it but not if it adds 2+ seconds to cold starts 😒
#AWS #OTEL #Lambda #observability

[Will Dady @WillDady]

Hot take: it should be possible to create an Event Bridge rule that translates an event payload directly into an AWS API call.
Basically the same as AWS Step Functions' AWS SDK integration. Perhaps part of API destinations?
#AWS

[Will Dady @WillDady]

... annnnd just like that it's fixed 🤔🙂

[Will Dady @WillDady]

TIL it seems you can't create AWS App Runner services with 0.25 or 0.5 vCPU configuration programatically, according to the API docs.
Can't create services at this size programatically via CLI or Cloudformation. 🙄
#AWS

[Will Dady @WillDady]

Trying AWS App Runner for the first time. Am deploying in ap-southeast-2.

Getting 'EADDRNOTAVAIL' trying to deploy an image which works perfectly fine when run locally.

Why?! ☹️
#AWS #apprunner