In 2017 the best session I saw at re:Invent was on a Twitch stream I watched while sitting on the floor waiting in a queue. It was the launch of AWS AppSync. — The volume of product announcements at re:Invent is huge. In the first few years of re:Invent product announcements were made during one of the keynotes from Andy Jassy or Werner Vogels. …

We’re kicking off a week of looking back at announcements from previous re:Invents, as we build up to re:Invent 2020. We’re starting with one of my favourite announcements of re:Invent 2019, the Amazon Builders’ Library. Amazon and AWS have been very closed about how they build things. Werner Vogels has…

Around 2015, Gartner started to promote the idea of a bimodal IT organisation, with mode 1 effectively being ‘as is’ operations for existing infrastructure, and mode 2 being newer, modern, agile techniques and platforms. A bimodal approach has the effect of promoting the idea that legacy infrastructure and operations are…

On 5 March 2019 Geekwire published a story detailing alleged abuse by Stackery CEO Nate Taggart of his former spouse Kate Taggart. Stackery is an active member of the Serverless community and has been involved in previous ServerlessDays events. …

ECMAScript Modules were introduced with the ES2015 specification for ECMAScript and is the modern module system for JavaScript. Node’s module system, CommonJS, predates ES Modules, and was created out of the need for module system in Node. In September 2017, Node.js added support for ES modules, alongside CommonJS modules, with…

Recently I’ve been working a bit with ES modules within Node.js. I’ve found documentation and blog posts to be a little patchy with some detail, but not all, and docs all over the place. So this post is essentially everything I’ve learnt about using ES modules within Node.js, …

When Paul Johnston wrote his blog post “Serverless” is just a name. We could have called it “Jeff”, I doubt there was any expectation it would spawn a conference let alone a series. Yet here we are with the third JeffConf concluded two months ago. Paul Johnston, James Thomas and…

[Interview with Alex Casalboni, translated from the original German article published at https://t3n.de/news/jeffconf-2018-hamburg-905965/] JeffConf is a community-focused conference built from and for local serverless communities. …

It’s time to drop IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as broad definitions for cloud. They create false equivalence, confuse the market and get hijacked by marketeers*. Whilst the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing attempts to describe three delineated service models for cloud with clear boundaries, it unfortunately describes three delineated service…