This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting.

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Runner-up Titles

• Did you order the Code Red?


• In the year 2000


• Jane go swiftly


• Another day in the coal mine


• Goal Driven Development


• I want to believe


• Prove me wrong


• AI’s going to dig this hole faster


• Tornado of Innovation


• Revenue times Story

Rundown

• SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon


• AWS
  
  
  
  
  • Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government
  
  
  • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
  
  
  • All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025
  
  
  • AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
  
  
  • The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services
  
  
  • Nova Act
  
  


• Code Red
  
  
  
  
  • OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months
  
  
  • Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT
  
  
  • Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
  
  


• AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

Relevant to your Interests

• Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store


• Thoma Bravo invests in Azul


• Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension


• As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch


• Valve makes almost $50 million per employee


• HelixGuard


• What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident


• ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform


• Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint


• Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model


• Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys


• Netflix kills casting from phones

Nonsense

• Victorian Name Generator

Conferences

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  
  
  
  
  • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
  
  


• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  
  
  
  
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.
  
  


• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ


• Matt: UmamiPapi chilli oil


• Coté: Anta, slightly more in English. Also XdgBaseDirs.

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