Serverless has gained a lot of momentum over the last 18 months. A great community has enabled this growth by sharing their knowledge and experiences with others. Serverless Architectures allow teams to focus on delivering solutions instead of managing servers. But, Serverless is still a new concept for many people. …

As a developer working on a 100% serverless application, I find myself wanting more so I can do with less — Amazon Web Services (AWS) is well known for listening to customer feedback. This has been evident in the features they have delivered for their Serverless platform. But as a developer working on a 100% serverless application, I find myself wanting more. Unfortunately I can’t fit all my requests into…

Serverlessconf celebrates the pioneers of serverless by sharing experiences with the community so others can do more with less — Enabling A Serverless Mindset A Cloud Guru believes that the future of business lies in leveraging serverless architecture. Do more with less, and focus on delivering creative solutions for your users. Over the last 18 months, the growth of the serverless has been amazing — enabled by a great community who helped drive this…

Designing AWS Lambda functions can be a frustrating experience. Each time you make a change, you have to deploy your code to AWS before you can test it. Well, my friend and I finally decided to do something about this. The end result is the Serverless Simulate Plugin. This plugin…

Building an image processor on AWS Lambda — I started working as a Software Developer Full-time in 2012. You build it, you run it was a core value of our small team. But, I knew nothing about servers. I soon had to learn about subnets, load balancers, database clusters and more to support the code I wrote. …

AWS is developing services that bring compute to the edge — Last week I sat in a room with thousands of other people at the AWS Re:Invent Keynote. We all wanted to learn of the new and updated AWS services and how each announcement would affect us. We saw a continued focus on Compute with announcements for EC2, ECS and Lambda…

A Summary of the Thursday Keynote by Werner Vogels — The Keynote by Andy Jassy yesterday was packed with updates and announcements. I was most excited by the new Amazon AI and IoT services. But the most notable omission from yesterday was updates to the Lambda platform itself. So I had great expectations for the announcements today. Werner Vogels did…

A Summary of the Wednesday Keynote by Andy Jassy — After two big days of sessions and events at AWS re:Invent, Wednesday started with the first of two general keynotes. There was an air of excitement for the first round of announcements by AWS CEO, Andy Jassy. We saw a wide range of announcements for infrastructure and platform services.

The announcements I’m hoping to unwrap — AWS re:Invent is just around the corner. AWS re:Invent is the global conference for Amazon Web Services. I am lucky enough this year to be going with the A Cloud Guru team. I am excited as this will be the first time I have attended. I am looking forward to…