Weekend Round-Up: Rookie logs in. Amazon logs off.

What starts with a backup ends with Bezos on the line.

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Divine Odazie
July 25, 2025

Hey there,

Happy Friday🥳!

Before you wrap the week, here’s a quick drop of things worth checking out.

📰Top Picks:

First Week on the Job. Took Down Amazon.
A backup script, one rogue character, and a brand-new sysadmin. That’s all it took to knock Amazon offline and get Bezos on the line. The site came back. So did the sysadmin. Read the full story here.

A Weekend Project That’ll Pay Off on Monday
Ten real MCP servers with working configs and setup tips you can plug into Claude, Cursor, or your editor of choice. Think GitHub, Docker, Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more. Some are prebuilt, others are DIY. Either way, you’ll walk away with tools you’ll actually use and ideas that improve your day-to-day. Read more

What If Your Server Had Follow-Up Questions?
The MCP C# SDK just got a major upgrade with support for spec version 2025-06-18. This means improved OAuth flows, dynamic user input through elicitation, structured tool outputs, and clickable resource links in the results. If you're building AI-powered apps in .NET, this update gives you the tools to do it right. Read more

Your Monitoring Layer Just Grew Up
Amazon just launched CloudWatch GenAI Observability (Preview) to monitor LLMs, agents, and tools, wherever they run. From Bedrock AgentCore to EKS, ECS, or bare metal, get traces, sessions, structured logs, and infra metrics, all in one pane. No custom wiring, just OpenTelemetry and the ADOT SDK. Read more

The Future of Software Summary

🎧 Your Friday listen: Darren and Pinja discuss the future of development. One highlight I liked was the part when Kelsey Hightower said he's not too worried about the future. What really matters is the difference you make today.

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Have a restful weekend!

Divine Odazie
Founder of EverythingDevOps

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