Hi, welcome to another weekly update. Welcome Thundra as our sponsor for Feburary! It is my pleasure to welcome Thundra as sponsor for this month. Here’s a message from Thundra to explain what they’re building and their vision for Serverless observability. A serverless application eliminates operational burdens and you only pay for what you use …
I recently watched an excellent talk by Matt Levin on optimization tips for Lambda and saw a slide on making DynamoDB use HTTP keep-alive. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Sebastian Cohnen, so I set out to test the effect this simple optimization has. What is it all about? As it turns out, …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update. New posts You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong. This is my response to the click-bait article published in The Register that clearly illustrated widespread misunderstanding when it comes to understanding the financial benefits of serverless. Many have discussed the cost savings serverless can give you in terms …
A use case happened at work recently, where we need to subscribe a SQS queue to a SNS topic running in another AWS account. On the surface this seems like something many people would need to do, and indeed I was able to find an official tutorial pretty quickly. But the tutorial is all “click …
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The Register published an article right before Christmas 2018. It had a somewhat provocative title, and somehow it ended up in my inbox from a few different sources. I felt the whitepaper the article refers to provided some interesting analysis. But the case studies it used to make its point are not representative of what …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update. I’m going independent :-) Firstly, a big update on a personal front – I’ve transitioned into a part-time role at DAZN so I can start a career as an independent consultant. My goal here is to use my expertise to help businesses accelerate their time-to-market through the use of …
As the curtain draws on 2018, let’s a look back at what I have been up to this year. On public speaking It’s been a crazy year for me in terms of public speaking. I had a whopping 64 public speaking engagements in 2018, that took me to 22 cities in 10 countries. I spoke at re:invent …
I have recently rediscovered the joy of listening to podcasts thanks to the AirPods I bought during the re:invent week. I like to take notes when I read books or listen to podcasts, and my friends find them useful as well. So, I’m going to share with all of you my podcast notes on a …
Notes from Screaming in the Cloud with Joseph Ruscio Read More »
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless We have released 3 new videos on my video course Production-Ready Serverless! You don’t need VPC’s to secure your functions FunctionShield Encapsulate common middleware with a wrapper I have recorded the last chapter on canary deployments, which should be with you shortly. Remember, whilst the …
Hi, welcome to the first weekly update of November! MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless There has been delays in publishing the rest of the VPC unit the last two weeks as my editor has been away. But worry not, I’m already working on the last unit on canary deployment and both units should be on …
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