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  The Secret Life of AWS: The Orchestrator (AWS Step Functions) How to manage distributed transactions and automated rollbacks using the Saga Pattern #AWS   #StepFunctions   #SagaPattern   #Serverless Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where code quality is the unspoken objective, and craftsmanship is the only thing that matters. Episode 74 Timothy was staring at a customer support ticket on his secondary monitor, shaking his head in disbelief. He had spent months ensuring his decoupled, event-driven architecture was highly available, cost-efficient, and chaos-tested. Yet, a severe logical bug had just surfaced. Margaret walked into the Victorian studio and set her notebook on the table. "You have that look again, Timothy. What did the architecture do this time?" "It did exactly what I told it to do, which is the problem," Timothy admitted. "A customer pla...

  The Secret Life of AWS: Canary Deployments with AWS CodeDeploy How to safely release new code to 10% of users and automatically roll back if something breaks #AWS   #CodeDeploy   #CanaryDeployment   #DevOps Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where code quality is the unspoken objective, and craftsmanship is the only thing that matters. Episode 73 Timothy was staring at the blinking cursor in his terminal, his finger hovering uncertainly over the  Enter  key. He had just finished writing a major update to their checkout microservice, but he couldn't bring himself to execute the deployment command. Margaret walked into the grand Victorian library studio and noticed his hesitation. "Having second thoughts about your code?" "The code is fine," Timothy sighed, pulling his hand away from the keyboard. "It passed all our local unit tests. But our architectu...

  Tech-Reader AI Digest Tuesday, May 12, 2026 #AI   #TechNews   #Digest Story 1: Altman Takes the Stand — "I Believe I Am an Honest and Trustworthy Businessperson" What happened:  Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday in Oakland — the moment three weeks of trial testimony had been building toward. He testified in a blue suit and tie, initially speaking quietly and taking long pauses, visibly aware of what awaited him in cross-examination. By the time proceedings broke for recess, he had found his footing. On direct examination, Altman told the jury what he believes the company he built actually is. He acknowledged that OpenAI had used "creative ways to keep it going" — taking outside investment and creating the for-profit arm — but said the result has been "one of the largest charities" in history. He said he did not understand Musk's allegation that he and other OpenAI executives were stealing from a charity. "It feels difficult to even wrap ...

  Five Days That Shook OpenAI Inside the Sam Altman firing, the merger talks with Anthropic, Altman's sudden reinstatement, and the unresolved fallout #SamAltman   #ElonMusk   #OpenAI   #FrontierModel This is a Tech-Reader AI Digest Special Edition. This story didn't end in November 2023. It is ending now — in a federal courthouse in Oakland, in sworn testimony, in a record that will outlast the verdict. Three weeks of trial testimony have assembled the most complete picture yet of what actually happened during five days in November 2023 that reshaped the AI industry. Not the version that was managed for the press. Not the version OpenAI's communications team released. The version that Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, Tasha McCauley, and Satya Nadella have sworn to under oath. Here is that story — assembled from the trial record and two and a half years of reporting — told in sequence for the first time. Part 1: The Build-Up The firing didn't happen in a day. It was asse...

  Tech-Reader AI Digest Monday, May 11, 2026 #AI   #TechNews   #Digest Story 1: Nadella Takes the Stand — Week 3 Opens With a Billionaire Parade and the Sutskever Confession What happened:  Week 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial opened Monday with the courtroom filling up fast. By end of day, four billionaires had testified and a fifth — Sam Altman — is expected Tuesday. The trial is moving toward closing arguments, with jury deliberations now anticipated to begin as early as Thursday. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand first. Nadella testified that Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI were in violation of any special terms or commitments. His core defense: Microsoft considered its early investments in OpenAI a calculated risk, and OpenAI retained its independence even as the partnership deepened. "OpenAI had all the rights and resources they always had," Nadella said. On the financial record: a video deposition from ...