Episode 390: It’s just a bunch of programming

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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Nonsense

• Advent of Code


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Conferences

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