Posts tagged "lambda"

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I'm going all-in on Serverless at AWS! :-)

Aug 1, 2019

I'm super excited to be joining AWS as a Senior Developer Advocate for the Serverless Product Group. I've been busily working as an IT practitioner on the customer side my entire career. 20ish years (eek!) mixing up IT infrastructure with radio stations, journalism and finance. Now seems the perfect time to abstract that all away and transition to the vendor side starting in September. I'll be...

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Serverless: The Minimilism Mindset

Jul 9, 2019

There's always been a lot of talk about defining "Serverless". That's what you get for coming up with a term that describes what something isn't rather than what something is. There isn't actually an authoritative definition of what "serverless" is, as it depends on what message your trying to convey, and that's actually OK, we've somehow managed to eventually understand what "cloud" generally...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood - SRV409

Nov 30, 2018

This looked like a super interesting session as AWS doesn't often let you peek under the hood of how it runs its infrastructure. Of all the AWS services, Lambda is arguably the most interesting under the hood as the whole point of Lambda is you don't have to worry about what's underneath that hood and there's a big engine! Running Highly Available Large Scale systems is a lot of work. When you...

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AWS re:Invent 2017: Build a Multi-Region Serverless Application for Resilience and High Availability Workshop

Nov 28, 2017

Steven Challis and Derek Felska from AWS were the workshop leaders and it was very hands on, basically up to you and anyone else you wanted to team up with. This is one of the reasons to actually attend a conference, you get to do things in person and interact with other people rather than watching a recorded session or just follow a step by step plan when you can't confer. Availability and fast...

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Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Platform9

Jul 20, 2017

( part of the Tech Field Day family of events is happening in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, from 26-28 July and I’m super excited to be invited as a delegate. We are hearing from a number of companies about how they cloud! The company was founded in 2013 by some clever VMware people who wanted to create a company to provide managed cloud infrastructure with two important distinctions. They...

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Can I order some servers for my serverless please - London VMUG Presentation

Jun 22, 2017

I was super happy to be able to present again at the London VMUG today on some tech that's going to make a huge impact, Serverless. Yes, its a dumb name, as dumb as cloud but basically refers to Functions as a Service. I went through what it is, covering the important points of event driven user defined functions spun up and down on demand. There's no infrastructure to manage from the point of...

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