Published in A Cloud Guru·May 30, 2017Serverless Event Sourcing at NordstromBuilding a unified event stream on AWS — Leading up to Serverlessconf Austin this year we held the inaugural Serverless Architecture competition. The competition was launched to encourage people to share their Serverless Architectures. Hello Retail by the team at Nordstrom is a well deserving winner of the competition. What is Hello Retail? Hello Retail is a proof-of-concept Serverless architecture for a…Serverless6 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·May 2, 2017Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural ServerlessConf Architecture CompetitionServerless 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. …Serverless3 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·Apr 10, 2017My AWS Wishlist for 2017As 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…AWS5 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·Apr 4, 2017The Inaugural Serverless Architecture Competition is Underway!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…Serverless3 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Feb 28, 2017How you can speed up serverless development by simulating AWS Lambda locallyDesigning 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…AWS6 min read
Jan 24, 2017How to build powerful back-ends easily with ServerlessBuilding 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. …Serverless6 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·Dec 8, 2016AWS Compute is at the EdgeAWS 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…AWS5 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·Dec 2, 2016AWS re:Invent 2016 — Thursday’s KeynoteA 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…AWS5 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·Nov 30, 2016AWS re:Invent 2016 — Wednesday’s KeynoteA 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.AWS4 min read
Published in A Cloud Guru·Nov 21, 2016My AWS re:Invent 2016 Serverless WishlistThe 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…AWS6 min read
