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2026

  1. Armakuni invests $2 million in running and securing AI agents on AWS

    We are investing $2 million in AK Run and Prism, to run and secure AI agents on what AWS launched this year.

    News. Armakuni. An eight-minute read.

  2. Armakuni Achieves the AWS Cloud Operations Competency

    In October 2026 we earned the AWS Cloud Operations Competency, validated in two categories: Cloud Financial Management, and Monitoring and Observability.

    News. Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  3. Databricks lists Armakuni as a consulting partner

    We now deliver on Databricks as well as AWS. Your own models and your data work can run on either.

    News. Armakuni. A one-minute read.

  4. Armakuni Achieves the AWS Agentic AI Specialization

    In January 2026 we earned the AWS Agentic AI Specialization, a new specialization within the AWS AI Competency program.

    News. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  5. Amazon Q in QuickSight for Delivering Smarter Business Insights

    Decision makers lose up to 30% of their working time gathering data and waiting on reports, which is nearly a day and a half a week. The post looks at what Amazon Q in QuickSight changes about that.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  6. How Agent Core Will Redefine the Future of AI on AWS

    Enterprise AI is past the experiment stage. Why Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with governed and audited agents, is becoming the standard way to deploy AI on AWS.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

2025

  1. Working With Amazon Connect for Modern Voice AI

    Real-time voice AI is hard on architecture because timing and state have to stay in step. How Amazon Connect, AgentCore and Nova 2 Sonic make it simpler than older Twilio and Chime SDK designs.

    Armakuni. A seven-minute read.

  2. Lift and Shift or Refactor: The Migration Choice That Defines Cloud ROI

    Every migration starts by choosing between moving fast and building for the future. How to decide between lift and shift and refactoring on budget, timelines and performance.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  3. Stop Buying AI, Start Building AI Readiness

    The advantage comes less from which AI you buy than from how quickly your organization can experiment with it and ship it, with good governance around it.

    Armakuni. An eight-minute read.

  4. Adoption of AI does not translate to more profits

    Plenty of companies have adopted AI and few are seeing the profit. The post argues that strategy decides it, more than the technology does.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  5. Maximising Contact Center ROI with Amazon Connect

    Leaders are starting to see the contact center as a source of efficiency and loyalty, not only a cost. How Amazon Connect changes the return on it.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  6. Armakuni Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Generative AI Adoption at Scale

    We signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to help customers adopt generative AI faster and at scale.

    News. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  7. Moving From Legacy IVRs to Amazon Connect: Here's What You Should Know

    Legacy IVRs are costly to maintain, slow to change and frustrating to call. What to know before moving one to Amazon Connect.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  8. Harnessing AI with Amazon Connect: Smarter, More Cost-Effective Customer Experiences

    Customers won't wait on hold or press 1 for this and 2 for that, and businesses want their people on the hard calls. How AI in Amazon Connect gives them both.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  9. GenBI on Amazon Q: Why Teams Are Trading Dashboards for Conversations

    A marketing director who waits ten days for a report is deciding without data. How generative BI with Amazon Q in QuickSight shortens that wait, with a case from our own work.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  10. The Triangle of Tension Explained: How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

    When deadlines feel impossible and demands don't add up, you're in the Triangle of Tension. Stories and tools for balancing wants, needs and feasibility.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  11. Redefining Agent Productivity with Generative AI in Amazon Connect

    McKinsey estimates that 50 to 60 percent of contact center interactions are routine. How generative AI in Amazon Connect takes on that work and cuts handling time.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  12. Smarter Call Summaries with Generative AI in Amazon Connect

    Rushed call notes lose what customers said, and 73% of consumers switch after repeated poor experiences. How generative AI in Amazon Connect writes the summary instead.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  13. The Second Edition of Team Topologies: Why People and Purpose Matter More Than Ever

    Team Topologies has a second edition, six years on. Why its message about people and purpose matters even more now.

    Faye Benfield. A five-minute read.

  14. How Amazon Connect Creates Seamless Omnichannel Experiences

    Every broken handoff between channels loses a customer's context, and the post puts the revenue gap at 287%. How Amazon Connect carries the context from one channel to the next.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  15. Armakuni in the AWS Summit Los Angeles 2025

    We were at AWS Summit Los Angeles 2025, talking to teams about modernizing their workloads and putting AI to work on AWS.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  16. Find the Tension Behind the Frustration: A Toolkit for Product & Tech Leaders

    A 50-minute live online session for product and tech leaders, on 25 September 2025, about the Triangle of Tension: stakeholder wants, user needs and what's actually feasible.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  17. Deploying LLM-Powered Android Agents on AWS

    UI scripts break whenever an app moves a button or spots the automation. This post covers Android agents on AWS that use an LLM to read the screen and act on it instead.

    Justin Mitchell. A three-minute read.

  18. Revolutionizing Android Automation: From ADB Commands to Real-Time Data Interaction

    ADB can launch apps and tap buttons, but it can't see what's on the screen. Adding Android's accessibility APIs gives automation that awareness, and fewer flaky tests.

    Justin Mitchell. A four-minute read.

  19. DevOps Was Never Meant to Be a Team

    DevOps started as a way to end the big-bang release and the silos behind it, and it was never meant to become a job title. What shared responsibility for delivery looks like in practice.

    Andrea Laforgia. A ten-minute read.

  20. Caring Just Enough: A Leadership Quality for Balance and Sustainability

    What a six-month leadership course taught one of our leads about caring just enough: enough empathy to lead well, and enough distance to make hard calls and look after yourself.

    Faye Benfield. A six-minute read.

  21. Integrating AI With Existing Infrastructure: Easy AI Solutions for Small Businesses

    A demo showing a small business adding AI to the systems it already has with Amazon Nova Sonic, without a complex integration.

    Justin Mitchell. A six-minute read.

  22. Navigating the Triangle of Tension: A Human Guide for Product & Tech Leaders

    The Triangle of Tension is the pull between what stakeholders want, what users need and what's feasible. How product teams can read it and come to agreement.

    Faye Benfield. A five-minute read.

  23. Generative AI in Production: How We Use Amazon Nova to Test Voice Agents at Scale

    Voice agents are hard to test because they answer speech in real time and users behave in all sorts of ways. How we use Amazon Nova to test them at scale, with a demo of our CLI tool.

    Justin Mitchell. A four-minute read.

  24. The Triangle of Tension: Reflections from Our Exclusive Panel Discussion

    Notes from our panel in London's Sea Containers building, where product and engineering leaders talked through the Triangle of Tension.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  25. Armakuni in the AWS Summit New York 2025

    At AWS Summit New York 2025 we talked about the PUSH framework, our way of checking that a generative AI project is solving the right problem before it's planned.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  26. Study of Enterprise Agility Meetup

    A Study of Enterprise Agility meetup on the productivity paradox, on 3 July at 6:30 pm.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  27. How to Use the PULL Framework to Get Real Business Results from Your Data

    A regional planning agency swapped its Excel routines for automated AWS pipelines, cutting manual work by 60%. The PULL framework behind it, a business-first way of putting data to use.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  28. What It Really Means to Be Product-Led: Reflections from Our Exclusive Roundtable

    What product leaders told each other at our roundtable with Team Topologies about strategic alignment, leading as a platform and measuring the right things.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  29. Simplifying Vector Database Scaling with AWS

    For large vector datasets that grow quickly, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon RDS and Bedrock's vector store each have strengths and trade-offs. How to choose and scale them.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  30. Qualifying AI Projects with the PUSH Framework

    More than 80% of AI projects fail, according to RAND, often because nobody checked whether they were worth doing. The PUSH framework for judging feasibility, uniqueness, scalability and ethics before you start.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  31. Simplifying RAG Implementations on AWS: Step-by-Step Guide to Smarter AI Solutions

    Generative AI works better when it can look things up. A step-by-step guide to building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on AWS.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  32. Armakuni Achieves AWS SMB Competency

    We earned the AWS Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency.

    News. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  33. Working with Armakuni-AWS Premier Partner: What's in it for You?

    The partner you choose can decide how a move to AWS goes. What working with us, as an AWS Premier Partner, gives you.

    Armakuni. A two-minute read.

2024

  1. Building Event-Driven ETL Pipelines with AWS Glue and EventBridge

    How to build an ETL pipeline where Amazon EventBridge triggers AWS Glue jobs as events arrive, with where it fits and what we've learned running it.

    Parmeetrai Lalwani. A four-minute read.

  2. Armakuni Achieves AWS AI Competency

    We earned the AWS AI Competency. According to McKinsey, generative AI accounts for over 75% of the value AI creates each year, and the post looks at why.

    News. Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  3. Mastering Calculations, Filters, and Aggregations in Amazon QuickSight

    How calculations in Amazon QuickSight are defined, displayed and affected by filters and aggregations, which you need to know to build dashboards that perform.

    Rahul Parmar. A six-minute read.

  4. Implementing Parent-Child Hierarchy Row-Level Security in Power BI

    A step-by-step guide to parent-child hierarchy row-level security in Power BI, so each person sees the data their place in the organization allows.

    Rahul Parmar. A two-minute read.

  5. Zero-ETL: Revolutionizing Real-Time Data Integration and Analytics

    Reporting on an Aurora or RDS database usually means building and nursing a pipeline into Redshift. How zero-ETL removes that pipeline.

    Parmeetrai Lalwani. A four-minute read.

  6. Armakuni's Cloud Optimization Journey with Karpenter

    The AWS Partner Network blog featured our work with Karpenter, which cut a client's cloud costs by 57%.

    Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  7. Fast Flow 2024: A Recap of Key Insights and Lessons Learned

    What we took away from Fast Flow 2024 in London, the Team Topologies conference we helped found.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  8. Extreme Discovery, Event Mapping for Behaviour Driven-Development

    Event Mapping gets a team to a shared understanding of a new feature quickly, and it opens behaviour- and test-driven development up to everyone in the room.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  9. Creating Effortless Continuous Delivery Pipelines: Eliminate Pain, Maximise Flow

    A continuous delivery pipeline is meant to take work off developers, but a badly built one adds frustrations of its own. The common problems and how to avoid them.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  10. Demystifying Event-Driven Architectures and Event Sourcing: Key Differences and Synergies

    Coming to Python or TypeScript from object-oriented languages, it's easy to write a class where a function would do. How to replace single-method classes with functions and drop the boilerplate.

    Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  11. Transforming Workshops with "Training from the Back of the Room": A New Approach to Engaging Learning

    Energy dropped in one session of our two-day React TDD workshop. How Training from the Back of the Room changed the way we run it.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  12. Apples and Pairs: Why we advocate pair programming and you should too

    Studies find that pairs write better code, and faster. Here is how we pair at Armakuni: how we rotate, what it does for morale, and how it fits continuous deployment.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  13. Cloud Native means serverless: What Prussia can teach us about serverless

    What the Prussian army can teach us about serverless, and why cloud native ends up meaning serverless.

    Armakuni. A seven-minute read.

  14. Coaching for Consulting Success

    What coaching is, why it belongs in a consultant's toolbox, and how it applies to software consulting.

    Armakuni. A nine-minute read.

  15. Designing Software Architecture

    Five years after writing Designing Microservice Architectures for People, the author looks back at how Conway's Law, bounded contexts and cognitive load have held up.

    Armakuni. A five-minute read.

  16. Hexagonal Architecture: Easy Integration Using Ports and Adapters

    How ports and adapters keep an application's business logic apart from the infrastructure it talks to, so the domain model stays independent.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  17. How to motivate people to adapt to change

    A change only works if the team is motivated to adapt to it. How regulatory fit theory and expectancy-value theory help, and how to match your approach to the team.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  18. How to motivate people to adapt to change - Part 2

    Part two puts regulatory fit theory and expectancy-value theory to work, with examples of motivating a team through an organizational change.

    Armakuni. A three-minute read.

  19. PaaS vs FaaS: Which one should I choose to run my microservices on?

    PaaS and FaaS can both run microservices with short lead times, but they differ in what they're good at. How to choose between them for your services and your developers.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  20. Pair Programming: A Practical Guide

    Pair programming is one of Extreme Programming's 12 practices, and studies of it go back to 1991. The roles, what to do when a pair gets stuck, and how to bring it into a team.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  21. Deep Dive into the SOLID Principles

    The SOLID principles are the foundation of good object-oriented software. An introduction to each, as a start for discussing how we apply them.

    Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  22. Beyond Test-Driven Development

    TDD should be the default way teams write code, but today's best tool won't always be tomorrow's. The practices we have tried on top of it, and how they fit into a team's workflow.

    Armakuni. A 15-minute read.

  23. Beginning Team Topologies

    The problems teams run into when they first adopt Team Topologies, with practical advice from people who have been through it.

    Armakuni. A seven-minute read.

  24. Team Topologies Conference: Practical Solutions for Cognitive Load

    A Fast Flow Conference talk for teams asked to do more with the same people: how to spot cognitive overload and handle it.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  25. DevOpsDays 2024: The Next Level Pipelines Delivering Net Zero

    DevOpsDays London 2024, two days of talks and open spaces, and the next level for pipelines: helping deliver net zero.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  26. Everyone is missing the point of teams

    Words drift in our industry until DevOps means Ops and Agile means Waterfall, and "team" has drifted too. What the word really means, and why it matters for building cross-functional teams.

    Armakuni. A six-minute read.

  27. Fast Flow Conference: Insights and Innovations from the World of Team Topologies

    A recap of Fast Flow Conference, on improving teamwork and flow in software delivery with the ideas from Team Topologies.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  28. Platform as a Product Meetup: Product Mindset and Platform Success

    At the Platform as a Product Meetup in London, Zenon Hannick and Faye Benfield talked about running a platform as a product, with examples from our clients.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  29. PHP UK Conference 2025: PHP Innovations and Team Collaboration

    PHP UK is one of Europe's biggest PHP conferences, where developers and CTOs meet to learn and share ideas. The 2025 event was on 19 February.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

  30. What's an Agile standup?

    The history and theory of the standup across Agile frameworks over twenty to thirty years, where they agree and where their intent differs, with tips for a better one.

    Armakuni. A 28-minute read.

  31. Why organisations misunderstand things

    McKinsey's article on measuring developer productivity set off a debate. Why organizations misread ideas like Agile when they miss the values and assumptions underneath.

    Armakuni. A four-minute read.

  32. Armakuni is excited to be a founding organiser and sponsor of the Fast Flow Conf, a Team Topologies Conference in London, UK

    We are a founding organiser and sponsor of Fast Flow Conf in London, the first public conference on Team Topologies.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

2023

  1. Webinar - Beyond Greenwashing: Tech's Road to Energy Sustainability

    A webinar on energy sustainability in tech: the front-runners using green credentials as an advantage, and the regulation coming for everyone else.

    Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.

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