2024 update: Jan – April
Here’s everything I’ve been up to so far in 2024 – blogs, videos, podcasts, public talks, workshops
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Year in review, 2023
2023 has been a bittersweet year. It started with unpleasant medical news and the subsequent surgeries. The silver lining is that I did enjoy the medical leave and perhaps didn’t realise how much I needed that break! Despite several months of medical leave, I still had a productive 2023. 13 public speaking engagements 8 public …
Monthly roundup – re:Invent Edition
Hi, here’s a quick round-up of my November. re:Invent 2023 recap Here is the best serverless news from re:Invent 2023. Lambda Lambda scales 12x faster Each Lambda function can now burst to 1000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, independently. It means it will take a single function just a minute to reach a peak concurrency …
Monthly roundup – October 2023
Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in October 2023. Podcast We aired three episodes on the Real-World Serverless podcast: #84 – Charity Majors on Observability, OTEL, AI ops, DevOps and Friday deploys #85 – AWS CDK dos and don’ts with Matthew Bonig #86 – AWS Serverless Hero on adopting CDK in …
Monthly roundup – September 2023
Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in September 2023. Podcast The first two episodes of this new format are available already: #82 – Big things are coming Lambda Powertools [Heitor Lessa] #83 – Unpacking Google’s latest AI announcements [Gerard Sans] The next episode with Charity Majors is airing on Oct 3rd …
Monthly roundup – August 2023
Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in August 2023. Real-World Serverless podcast relaunched After a hiatus, the real-world serverless podcast is back and better than ever before. It’s now available on YouTube as well as the usual podcast platforms such as Spotify. This new audio + video format gives guest speakers …
Being independent, 4 years on
It’s coming up to 4 years since I left full-time employment to embark on a career as an independent consultant. By and large, things have gone to plan and I have enjoyed both the freedom and challenges that come with working for yourself. Including some of the financial upside that I had previously touched on …
Year in review, 2022
As the curtain draws on 2022, here’s my year in numbers: 1 book 2 on-demand video courses 1023 students enrolled in my video courses 4 public workshops 118 workshop students 21 blog posts 4 YouTube videos 14 podcast episodes 16 public speaking engagements Serverless Architectures on AWS In February 2022, after nearly two years of hard …
Weekly update 49
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Real-World Serverless podcast Since the last update, we have had quite a few new episodes, covering a wide range of topics: #41: The future of JVM on Lambda with Vadym Kazulkin #42: Real-World Serverless with Ant Stanley (part 1) #43: Real-World Serverless with Ant Stanley (part 2) #44: Real-World …
Year in review, 2020
As the curtain draws on a tough year, here’s my 2020 in numbers: 37 blog posts 34 conference talks started 1 book published 2 video courses 2,475 new students to my video courses produced 43 episodes of Real-World Serverless hosted 5 webinars 1236 contributions to 17 OSS projects helped 17 clients adopt serverless ran 10 …