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Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan Barnett

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I am a full-stack developer and devops engineer with experience with React, Nest.js, and managing AWS resources with Terraform, among other things.

Tool Calling with the new Bedrock Converse API vs OpenAI

Aug 21, 202417 min read

🙀 This post is long. Take a look at the table of contents. After a brief explanation of the "tools" concept, followed by a quick comparison of the...

Tool Calling with the new Bedrock Converse API vs OpenAI

Use Windows and WSL to develop Node.js / AWS applications

Jun 12, 20244 min read

You're a web developer or full-stack / DevOps engineer. You are writing applications that will run in Node.js, will likely run in a Docker container,...

Bun vs Node with Nest.js

Oct 9, 20235 min read

The latest potential replacement for Node recently dropped version 1.0 over at bun.sh. I played with it for a day, and I have some thoughts to share....

Bun vs Node with Nest.js

Cold Starts in AWS Lambda with Container Images in 2023

Sep 25, 20236 min read

TL;DR they're still slow · A couple of years ago, Mikhail Shilkov wrote a blog post detailing AWS Lambda cold starts using Docker images. Let's revisit...

Cold Starts in AWS Lambda with Container Images in 2023

The current state of AI/ML is frustrating and confusing

Aug 27, 202314 min read

A newbie's experience diving into the current ML ecosystem · My goal in this post is not to teach you something. I will share a few great entry points I...

The current state of AI/ML is frustrating and confusing

A Rollercoaster Ride into Dependency Injection and Functional Programming in Javascript

Jun 19, 202312 min read

Let's take a look at dependency injection and how it works with functional programming in Javascript / Typescript. My goal here is to ask a question,...