Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Welcome to Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge with Dave Anderson, Mark McCann and Mike O'Reilly. We want to share our tools and techniques so that you can use them to communicate your Technical Strategy with your C-Suite and business owners. We want to help you to build a serverless first organisation. We will show you how to use Wardley Mapping to gain situational awareness of where your cloud applications and business are. And then how to develop your technical capability in away that builds engineering standards to set your organisation up for sustainable success.Sounds like the tools and techniques that you need - then hit the subscribe!-ABOUT- Dave, Mark and Mike are senior technical architects/leaders passionate about driving technical strategy. They have led transformation journeys, technical excellence, cloud adoption and tech strategies in many industries.Active in various technologies including ML/AI, Public Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Engineering, Product, Cyber and UX.
Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Serverless Craic Ep74 AWS Community Summit & Cloud Day 2025 | Serverless, AI & Bedrock AgentCore
In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly share key takeaways from two major events — AWS Community Summit Manchester 2025 and AWS Cloud Day Dublin 2025.
From psychological safety in engineering teams to serverless adoption patterns, event-driven architecture, and the rise of AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the discussion highlights what’s shaping cloud-native development today.
If you’re a software engineer, cloud architect, or tech leader interested in modernisation, AI in the enterprise, serverless-first strategies, and community-led learning, this episode is for you.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 – Intro & catching up
00:55 – AWS Community Summit Manchester highlights
02:10 – Psychological safety in engineering teams
05:30 – AI hype, misuses & team impact
07:10 – Women in Tech track & allyship
08:30 – Event-driven architecture & domain-driven design
10:45 – Modernisation talks & API boundaries
12:00 – The reality of AI adoption in enterprises
14:55 – Serverless adoption patterns & challenges
15:53 – AWS Cloud Day Dublin highlights
17:45 – AI agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
19:14 – Challenges of agentic user experiences
20:15 – Securing and testing AI systems (OWASP LLM Top 10)
21:00 – Well-Architected Framework (SCORP) talk
21:39 – Power of community learning
22:22 – Wrap up & next episode preview
🔗 Resources & Mentions
The Serverless Edge Website: https://theserverlessedge.com
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The Serverless Edge GitHub – SCORP: https://github.com/ServerlessEdge/SCORP
Amazon Bedrock & AgentCore: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
Event Catalogue: https://eventcatalog.dev/
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