As the curtain draws on 2019, here’s my year in numbers: 70 blog posts 1,500,000 views across all my posts 1,300 new subscribers to my newsletter 2,200 new students to my video courses 31 conference talks in 17 cities 6 podcast appearances 4 webinars 4 chalk talks @ re:invent 10 apps published to the Serverless …
First of all, I want to wish you all a merry Xmas and happy new year! And thank you for your readership and support over the years. Now that re:invent 2019 has come and gone, I have updated my course Complete Guide to Step Functions to include the latest announcements: Step Functions 101: added a lesson …
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Welcome to another weekly update! Apologies for the radio silence the last few weeks. A combination of vacation, work and re:invent has really messed up my posting schedule! Hopefully, I’m now back to my usual flow. First of all, I want to give a shout out to my Patreon supporters: Andre Silva, Boseok In, Joe …
Have you been stuck at “senior engineer” and not sure how to get to the next level? e.g. a principal or staff engineer.
Here’s my advice – start maximizing your impact, not your output.
Be warned, the principal engineer role is not for everyone.
Hello, welcome to another weekly update! I’m trying out a new format to do this via video, hope you enjoy it :-) Links Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theburningmonk Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me New posts The why, when, how of API Gateway service proxies Where does SLS plugin stops and platform starts My advice to junior developers Open source updates …
A client emailed me a while back and asked what advice I’d give to someone just starting out on their career. As I began to write my reply, I realised that everything that popped to my mind was generic recitals that you can find after 10s of googling. “Be curious” “Work hard” “Ask lots of …
A few of you have asked me whether I was on Patreon and how you can support me in my work. And for a long time, I couldn’t think of interesting perks to offer you in return. But now that I’m spending a good part of my time as an independent consultant, I am much …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Let’s work together in 2020 Are you still on the fence about serverless and need strategic guidance on how best to safely introduce serverless to your organization and reap its benefits? Are your engineers lacking experiences with AWS and serverless and you need help upskilling the teams? Or maybe …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Let’s welcome back Blue Matador as this month’s sponsor! Blue Matador is monitoring alert automation for AWS and Kubernetes environments. Our proactive alerts take the time and toil out of monitoring. Trying to understand baselines and thresholds, and configuring alerts, especially in black boxes like Lambda and K8s, requires …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! I’ve been busy since the last time we were here, and I have lots of cool updates to share with you. New blog posts How to use the power of CloudFormation custom resources for great good. In this post, I described an approach for invoking a Lambda function as …
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