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Yan Cui
February 12, 2025
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How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
Slides for my talk at the Serverless London meetup on 12-Feb-2025
Yan Cui
February 12, 2025
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Transcript
How we built an AI Code Reviewer with Serverless and
Bedrock
Yan Cui http://theburningmonk.com @theburningmonk AWS user since 2010
Yan Cui http://theburningmonk.com @theburningmonk running serverless in production since 2016
Developer Advocate @ Yan Cui http://theburningmonk.com @theburningmonk
Yan Cui http://theburningmonk.com @theburningmonk independent consultant
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evolua.io Demo
Architecture
API Gateway EventBridge Webhook
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook evolua.io
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API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io
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API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser
Challenges (for an AI code reviewer) Handling sensitive data for
customers
Challenges (for an AI code reviewer) Large fi les. Large
PRs with many fi les. Handling sensitive data for customers
Why Bedrock?
Security
Security Data is encrypted at rest.
www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak
aws.amazon.com/bedrock/faqs
Security Data is encrypted at rest. Inputs & Outputs are
not shared with model providers. Inputs & Outputs are not used to train other models.
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser Fallback
Primary
privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/7996885-how-do-you-use-personal-data-in-model-training
Serverless
Serverless Usage-based AND provisioned throughput pricing
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1M Input Tokens 1M Output Tokens $0.14 v3 r1 $0.28
$0.55 $2.19 Sonnet $3.75 $15.0 Haiku $0.80 $4.00
Very cost ef fi cient!
Very cost ef fi cient! Data is stored in China.
Very cost ef fi cient! Data is stored in China.
Data might be used to train other models.
www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak
Very cost ef fi cient! Data is stored in China.
Data might be used to train other models. Operationally immature.
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No token-based pricing yet
No token-based pricing yet “GPU-based instance type like ml.p5e.48xlarge is
recommended”
ml.p5e.48xlarge 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
Other capabilities Guardrails Knowledge base (managed RAG) Agents Cross-region inference
Model evaluations
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API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook AppSync evolua.io Authoriser Fallback
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Lessons
Webhook
Webhook Analyse changes
Webhook Analyse changes Feedback
Condensed view…
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Lambda timed out after 15 mins
Succeeded on automatic retry
Webhook Analyse changes Feedback LLM limits GitHub limits AWS limits
Lesson: AI is 10% of the problem
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Reasoning ability
Context window Max response tokens API rate limit Reasoning ability
Context window Max response tokens API rate limit Reasoning ability
Cost Performance
Context window Max response tokens API rate limit Reasoning ability
Cost Performance Important selection criteria for LLMs
Doing cool AI stuff! Working around AI limits
Doing cool AI stuff! Working around AI limits Stop playing
with my bowl…
Context window Max response tokens API rate limit Reasoning ability
Cost Performance
Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s default throughput is 50 per minute
Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s default throughput is 50 per minute Can
be raised to 1,000 per minute
Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s default throughput is 50 per minute Can
be raised to 1,000 per minute Bedrock has cross- region inference
Mitigate API rate limit Raise account limits. Use Bedrock cross-region
inference.
Mitigate API rate limit Raise account limits. Use Bedrock cross-region
inference. Limit no. of parallel requests per PR.
Mitigate API rate limit Raise account limits. Use Bedrock cross-region
inference. Limit no. of parallel requests per PR. Fallback to Anthropic & less powerful models (Claude 3 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku)
Future work: incorporate other models (Nova, DeepSeek, etc.)
Future work: incorporate other models (Nova, DeepSeek, etc.) Also good
for cost control!
Lesson: LLMs are still quite expensive
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Dif fi cult to build a sustainable and competitive business
Cost control Only analyse changed lines.
Cost control Only analyse changed lines. Good for cost control
Good for UX
Cost control Only analyse changed lines. Limit free users to
few PRs per month.
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook
API Gateway DynamoDB Bedrock EventBridge Webhook Built-in retries & DLQ
Lambda timed out after 15 mins
Lambda timed out after 15 mins Reprocess fi les on
retry…
Lambda timed out after 15 mins Reprocess fi les on
retry… Duplicated side- effects (e.g. Github comments)
Cost control Only analyse changed lines. Limit free users to
few PRs per month. Use checkpoints to avoid re-processing fi les on retries
const issues = await executeIdempotently( `${event-id}-${filename}-analyze`, () => analyzeFile(file) );
... await executeIdempotently( `${event-id}-${filename}-add-gh-comment`, () => addReviewComment(filename, comment) );
Webhook Analyse changes Feedback Why not Step Functions?
Webhook Analyse changes Feedback Why not Step Functions? Checkpoints is
just easier 🤷
Lesson: Latency is a challenge
Models take 10s of seconds to analyse each fi le
Wasted CPU cycles in Lambda
Future work: try other models
Future work: make use of these CPU cycles
Lesson: Be ware of hallucinations
“Give me JSON in this format”
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“Give me JSON in this format” “Nope!”
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Non-existent codes, invalid URLs
Non-existent line numbers
Future works
Go to evolua.io to try it out. We’d love your
feedback!
Questions?