Techie Startup Stories

Covered here.

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is the AWS fully managed platform for building generative AI services. It is basically (like LangChain) a unified API to call into various models and provides managed capabilities like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector embeddings, guardrails and agents/agent orchestration.

Vercel

Vercel is a deployment technology that also exists as a GitHub app.

It's good for product teams that want to ship quickly without managing infrastructure.

Windows Baseline Security

Windows Baseline Security is something new for the Age of AI Agents.

The AI Agent Prevention Society

One of the obstacles to AI agents becoming all powerful is the technology infrastructure that actively seeks to obstruct agents.

This technology has various names, one being WAF, or web application firewall.  

The purpose of a WAF is to stop web applications from common attacks. 

Recall the OWASP Top Ten Risks? Some of the motivation behind these protections are good - for example, guarding against bot-driven DDoS attacks.

There are various vendors and products in this space; such as Imperva WAF, Cloudflare, Akamai Site Defender, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Google Cloud Armor.

These solutions are all effective at detecting and blocking agents, headless browsers, scrapers, credential stuffing bots (where leaked usernames and passwords are used across numerous websites to exploit potential duplication) and automated (even if legitimate) login attempts.

Action taken could range from limiting requests based on IP, presenting CAPTCHA challenges and blocking certain geographies.  However, these actions may prevent legitimate bots from using required services, or performing agentic actions on behalf of legitimate users.

Hushlogins

CloudFlare R2

The CloudFlare R2 Developer's Guide is good reading for developers needing to use this CDN.

Applications include storage for cloud native applications, podcast content as well as storage for batch process output.

Core concepts are Buckets and Objects.

Accelerating "safe AI adoption" is one of the company's current mantras.