Since Dec 26th 2009, I have written regularly on this blog on a variety of technical topics. Suffice to say that I have had a lot of practice of technical writing! I love learning, and I love sharing. What I learn I like to share through writing, as it also helps me solidify my understanding too. …
here are my top tips on technical writing after 8 years and 700 posts Read More »
Today is my last day at Space Ape Games, and it’s been a wonderful year. I learnt a lot in my time here, and worked on some challenging technical problems. At the same time, I’m looking forward to starting a new adventure at DAZN and help them become the Netflix of Sports! I will be …
7 things I learnt from one of the best startups you’ll find Read More »
Hello, the slides and recording of my talk — The present and future of Serverless observability — at ServerlessConf Paris is now available. Enjoy! :-) The present and future of Serverless observability from Yan Cui
Hello, the slides and recording of my talk – Serverless Design Patterns – at the London Dev Community is now available. Enjoy! :-) Serverless Design Patterns (London Dev Community) from Yan Cui
I have been thinking about different hosting options for this blog for some time, even just to stop my friends from joking about the fact that I have been so vocal about Serverless technologies and yet, my personal blog runs on WordPress! However, as someone who enjoys writing and have little interest in fiddling with …
“Guys, we’re doing pagination wrong…” These are the words that I had to mutter quite a few times in my career, at the dissatisfaction of how pagination had been implemented on several projects. Still, that dissatisfaction is nothing compared to how I feel when I occasionally had to ask “why is this API not paginated..?” So, …
After my post on monolithic functions vs single-purposed functions, a few people asked me about the effect monolithic functions have on cold starts, so I thought I’d share my thoughts here. The question goes something like this: Monolithic functions are invoked more frequently so they are less likely to be in cold state, while single-purposed …
AWS Lambda – monolithic functions won’t help you with cold starts Read More »
This is a the first in a mini series that accompanies my “the present and future of Serverless observability” talk at ServerlessConf Paris and QCon London. part 1 : new challenges to observability <- you’re here part 2 : first party observability tools from AWS part 3 : 3rd party observability tools part 4 : the future of Serverless observability 2017 …
Serverless observability brings new challenges to current practices Read More »
In the last post I discussed the pros & cons of following the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) when moving to the serverless paradigm. One of the questions that popped up on both Twitter and Medium is “how do you deal with shared code?”. It is a FAQ whenever I speak at user groups or conferences about AWS Lambda, alongside “how do …
AWS Lambda – how best to manage shared code and shared infrastructure Read More »
A funny moment (at 38:50) happened during Tim Bray’s session (SRV306) at re:invent 2017, when he asked the audience if we should have many simple, single-purposed functions, or fewer monolithic functions, and the room was pretty much split in half. Having been brought up on the SOLID principles, and especially the single responsibility principle (SRP), …
AWS Lambda – should you have few monolithic functions or many single-purposed functions? Read More »
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