Allen Helton

Codex is great at building endpoints. Not so great at building systems. I blew through my backlog but had 0 confidence in it. I went into @getpostman to write some tests, turns out it's a full IDE now. I wrote about my lessons learned and new thoughts👇 readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.hel…

📈 “Scale exposes all truths.” That’s the reality for teams running Valkey at scale—where tail latency, payload shape, and traffic patterns matter more than peak numbers. Read more from @AllenHeltonDev and Mike Callahan 👇 valkey.io/blog/operation… #Valkey #DistributedSystems

📢🚀 Learn how AI agents can automate content repurposing, from extracting quotes to creating video clips, all with serverless! | Join #Serverless Office Hours with @AllenHeltonDev and @andmoredev. Tomorrow:Live on YouTube/Twitch/ 11AM PT @AWSEventsChannel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@AWSEventsChan…

@Lockhead @iamlukethedev Lol yup. Then it continues to farm automation because you never really let that go 😀

@iamlukethedev @AllenHeltonDev here’s your career path 😘

backend architect career roadmap: -startup -automation -ai workflows -farmer

Friday wisdom: Delight does not come from animation. Delight comes from certainty.

I recently updated my website to optimize the images I use for my blog posts. My workflow stayed the same, but the site got almost 400% faster load times! I wrote about it and made it available in the Serverless Application Repository for those interested readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.hel…

Part 27 of DEV Track Spotlight 🤖 Together with @allenheltondev, I demonstrated how to build production-ready multi-agent AI systems at AWS re:Invent 2025 Thread 🧵👇 #AWSreInvent #DEVTrack #GenAI #AgenticAI #Serverless #AWSHeroes

@RanBuilder This is such a great picture!

2025 has been busy and quite monumental as I shifted my focus from serverless to agentic AI and even started my own consultancy business. Let's recap. Here’s what the year looked like for me: 🚀 Launched my own consultancy, Ran the Builder, helping organizations build scalable, secure platforms 👉 ranthebuilder.cloud/services 📰 Started my LinkedIn newsletter “Platform & Serverless Insights” — now almost 1,400 subscribers ✅ 18 blog posts published on RanTheBuilder.cloud ✍️ 4 guest posts (5 of the total focused on AI / MCP / agentic AI) 🛡️ 1 AWS.com blog post on security and KMS cost optimizations 🎤 13 conference talks, webinars & podcasts — including AWS re:Invent breakout session 🔓 Launched new open-source MCP server Lambda template on GitHub Looking ahead to 2026 👀 Already lined up: 📅 LogiCast webinar 📅 AWS Community Day TLV (more to come!) The focus continues: 1. Platform engineering done right 2. Exploring new serverless features & trends And the right amount of agentic AI — when it actually matters Thanks to everyone who read, listened, attended, collaborated, challenged, and supported along the way 🙏 Follow for more Platform & Serverless insights in 2026.

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 Let's take a deep dive into Lambda Durable Functions. Ever since they were announced, I've been playing around with them and enjoying them a lot. They are very simple to use and offer capabilities similar to AWS Step Functions, without the need for Amazon State Language (ASL), which I know many of you struggle with. In this post, we go over some key concepts, how to set them up and how to use all of the different operations. andmore.dev/blog/lambda_du…

@jfg956 @momentohq @PlanetValkeyCmT I appreciate the quick turnaround!!

I just added @momentohq blog to @PlanetValkeyCmT. Thanks for the PR @allenheltondev. github.com/jfg956/valkey-…

Describing a hackathon to my family as a "programming competition" has made me feel very uncool 🙃😂

@momentohq @valkey_io Big capabilities like this are rarely the result of "one big project". Love this framing

The @valkey_io team didn't stumble upon the ability to run 1 billion RPS by accident. It was a combo of many smaller, strategic updates that led to this incredible feat. Here's a clip from the Cache It podcast about how they got there. Full episode: youtu.be/c57lAopUh0k

@andmoredev Yeehaw! Great video, btw.

We are only 10 days away from the first edition of the Road to re:Invent hackathon 🚌 ! I am so happy to be teamed up with @AllenHeltonDev , Rini Susan, Chandradeo Arya & Shahriyar Mammadov Watch us live on November 30th on the AWS Twitch channel, and if you are in Las Vegas for re:Invent, it will be streamed at Midday Madness!

1 billion requests per second is a scale I can't even pretend like I understand 😵‍💫

I'm playing a video game with my 7 year old and when we entered the Amazon she laughed. I asked why she laughed and she said "because that's a store" 🫠🫠🫠

@realchrisebert Haha, yeah pretty much

@AllenHeltonDev Thank you Claude Code for helping me with the front end 😅😂

I've always been a backend engineer, but nothing makes an API or a service feel more real than the first time you see a functioning UI on top of it 🤩

In a recent episode of the #cacheit podcast, Khawaja Shams and Kyle Davis spoke about some of the exciting new possibilities with multiple database in cluster mode in @valkey_io 9.0 (among other things) 🔥 Full episode 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Q0kqS3…

Anyone else see the irony in people saying there are lots of security issues with MCP yet still freely using it? Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic protocol - not without issues - but it's a little funny to see the popularity of local MCP servers from unverified publishers.

@quizout I'm going to set reminders for myself so I stay alert

@AllenHeltonDev Haha! I’m not sure if I should remind you more or stay quiet and let you get comfortable. 😂

So excited to be participating in this. It’s going to be so much fun!