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AWS Skills Developers Should Master in 2026

This article outlines the core AWS skills developers and cloud engineers should prioritize in 2026. It argues that understanding cloud architecture and how services combine is more valuable than memorizing individual services. The post covers foundational topics (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC), operational patterns (load balancing, auto-scaling, monitoring, security), and modern approaches (serverless with Lambda, containers/Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform). It recommends a phased learning roadmap from fundamentals to production readiness and emphasizes hands-on projects, automation, observability, and secure design. The author also links to paid learning resources for further study.

• The article recommends core AWS skills including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, load balancing, auto scaling, Lambda, containers/Kubernetes, security, and monitoring.
• It advocates combining AWS with tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD to build cloud-native systems.
• The post presents a phased learning roadmap from fundamentals through production (regions/AZs, IAM, core services, architecture, automation, monitoring).

Five Checks to Validate AI-Generated SQL

This technical guide explains five quick checks to verify results produced by AI-generated SQL queries. It warns that a running query only proves syntactic correctness and outlines practical tests: (1) compare row counts before and after joins to detect fan-out, (2) watch for NULLs breaking NOT IN filters (use NOT EXISTS), (3) ensure filters sit in WHERE vs HAVING appropriately, (4) confirm the denominator used by averages or percentages, and (5) ask the AI to read the query back clause-by-clause. The author cites the BIRD benchmark (Li et al., 2023) showing large gaps between model and human execution accuracy and provides examples and remediation patterns to avoid incorrect analytics numbers.

• The article provides five checks to validate AI-generated SQL before trusting numeric results.
• Check 1: count rows before and after each JOIN to detect fan-out that inflates SUM/AVG values.
• Check 2: NOT IN fails if the lookup contains NULL; use NOT EXISTS or clean the lookup table instead.

Stop Claude Code agent writing outside directory

The article explains two complementary guardrails for preventing unattended Claude Code agents from writing files outside an intended directory: declarative permission rules in settings.json (permissions.deny) and a programmatic PreToolUse hook that inspects pending tool calls and can deny writes. It details how deny/allow precedence makes an allow-list impossible with permissions.deny alone, shows a Node.js hook implementation that defers on malformed payloads and denies out-of-scope writes, and warns that hooks cannot see writes from Bash commands, subagents, or generated build artefacts. As a post-hoc check, the author recommends running a git-status diff against an allow-list before committing to catch any changes the hook missed. The piece clarifies these measures are not an OS sandbox and outlines trade-offs such as failing-open behavior.

• Claude Code uses permission rules in settings.json with Tool(specifier) entries and precedence: deny > ask > allow.
• permissions.deny is a block-list and cannot be used to construct an allow-list for fine-grained in-project write scoping.
• A PreToolUse hook can intercept tool calls (Write, Edit, MultiEdit, NotebookEdit) and return structured JSON with permissionDecision (allow/deny/ask/defer).

Base44 Launches Base Code, Helping Teams Collaborate and Ship Faster

Base44, a Wix company, has launched Base Code, a new product aimed at helping teams collaborate and ship faster. This is the latest in a series of product launches and updates from Wix and its subsidiaries, including the integration of native Google Ads campaign management and the launch of Symphony by Wix.

Shopify launches Canvas AI site builder

Shopify has introduced Canvas, a new AI-powered site builder that lets merchants create and customize online stores through chat with its AI agent, Sidekick. Canvas renders changes in real time, showing the actual code and enabling full interactivity testing across screen sizes. It presents the store as a cohesive visual workspace, allowing merchants to view, edit, and develop pages without deep coding knowledge. Sidekick can directly access theme files, make coordinated changes, and validate its own work, having already handled over 25 million theme changes in H1 2026. Initially, Canvas lacks support for third-party themes, app blocks, and translations, and is desktop-only, but Shopify plans to expand its capabilities. The tool will roll out gradually, with the existing editor remaining for now, and aims to make e-commerce more accessible to non-coders.

• Shopify launched Canvas, an AI-powered site builder and design interface that lets merchants create stores via chat.
• Canvas uses Shopify's AI agent Sidekick to make real-time changes to the store's actual code and theme files.
• The initial version lacks third-party theme support, app blocks, translations, and is desktop-only.

Wix Investors Can Lead Securities Fraud Lawsuit by September 22

Rosen Law Firm and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP remind investors who purchased Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX) securities between February 19, 2025 and May 12, 2026 of the September 22, 2026 lead plaintiff deadline in the class action lawsuit, Yappi v. Wix.com Ltd. The lawsuit alleges that Wix and certain executives made false or misleading statements about the competitiveness, performance, costs, and benefits of its AI products, including overstated commercial benefits and understated development and promotional costs. Events cited include the Q1 2025 earnings miss, the June 2025 acquisition of Base44, Q3 2025 earnings showing increased costs, analyst downgrades, and Q1 2026 earnings revealing business softness, causing significant stock declines. Investors with losses exceeding $100,000 may seek to lead the case.

• Lead plaintiff deadline is September 22, 2026.
• Class period: February 19, 2025 to May 12, 2026.
• Allegations include overstated AI product competitiveness and benefits, and understated development costs.