Running network services inside AWS Lambda Functions — You can’t ping an AWS Lambda function. You can’t SSH into a running function without reverse tunneling. You would never run nginx or Rails inside of a function because there’s little point — accepting an inbound TCP connection on a port like a Docker container isn’t supported by function-as-a-service (FaaS)…

With ICOs, or token sales of cryptocurrencies, having reportedly raised $2.3 billion in 2017, the time seemed right to use AI to generate a fake ICO white paper programmatically using a recurrent neural network (RNN) in the cloud. I’ve titled it “RNN-Coin” and have published the full white paper here…

Thought it’d be fun to explore blockchain hype and write a simple Ethereum smart contract based on an short story from the 19th century. In middle school, I remember reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Bottle Imp, written in 1891. The story describes the the struggles of a person who buys…

There seems to be a small community of developers building interesting browser things on AWS Lambda with Headless Chrome. Around a month ago, I was also prototyping a small AWS Lambda project that enabled running Selenium Webdriver with Headless Chrome inside a Lambda function called lambdium (disclaimer: no relation to…

Finally proof that serverless has servers? I spoke at dotScale in Paris last week about some stuff I’ve been working on to learn more about Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) performance. While my talk was mostly about cold starts, function warming, and understanding the internal architecture of FaaS, lots of people were curious…