Breaking the 29-Second Wall: Serverless GenAI & Agent Backends on AWS

The API Gateway 29-second timeout is now a default, not a wall: REST APIs can stream for 15 minutes, and Lambda durable functions and Bedrock AgentCore handle work that runs for hours. This article sets out the current limits, three production patterns for long-running GenAI requests with tested code, and the concurrency and cost consequences of each.

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The Server-First Revolution: How React Server Components Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Frontend Architecture

For eight years, I built React applications the same way everyone else did: render everything on the client, fetch data with useEffect, and watch the bundle size grow with every new feature. Then React Server Components arrived, and I had to unlearn almost everything I thought I knew about frontend architecture. Server Components vs Client […]

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Event-Driven Architecture on GCP: Mastering Cloud Pub/Sub for Real-Time Systems

Google Cloud Pub/Sub provides the foundation for event-driven architectures at any scale, offering globally distributed messaging with exactly-once delivery semantics and sub-second latency. This comprehensive guide explores Pub/Sub’s enterprise capabilities. Cloud Pub/Sub Architecture Overview Pub/Sub Architecture: Topics, Subscriptions, and Delivery Guarantees Pub/Sub implements a publish-subscribe pattern where publishers send messages to topics and subscribers receive […]

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Streaming Responses for LLMs: Implementing Server-Sent Events

Streaming LLM responses dramatically improves user experience. After implementing streaming for 20+ LLM applications, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to implementing Server-Sent Events for LLM streaming. Figure 1: Streaming Architecture Why Streaming Matters Streaming LLM responses provides significant benefits: Perceived performance: Users see results immediately, not after 10+ seconds Better UX: Progressive […]

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