It was a pleasant spring morning. I closed the book as the train touched the long platform of my destination station. “How are you finding it?” — a curious voice came from the opposite seat as I lifted myself up. “Ah, yes, it’s quite interesting. …

The Serverless Book

Understand the simple measures to make your serverless adoption a success — More than a year ago, hiking at some altitude in the September setting of Semmering, Austria, we were lost at a junction on our trail. As the signposts were inconclusive, I reached out to my mobile for clues. Amongst several Twitter (X) notifications, a reference to Paul Johnston’s article Learning…

AWS re:Invent 2023 is getting closer, and I list the sessions I will be keen to attend. Seat reservations will open in a few days' time! https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Venue Map

Enterprise-scale serverless adoption demands discipline — Five years ago, at a conference, I watched someone live-code, deploy, and invoke a lambda function to show the audience Hello, Serverless! The speaker then proclaimed — Serverless is easy! Many continue to believe in that proclamation to this day. The ‘Hello, Serverless!’ Syndrome Writing a lambda function to show Hello, Serverless! is a…

The world is asynchronous. The world is event-driven. — Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com It required a world stage to propagate asynchrony and event-driven architecture in our modern era of cloud computing. And that’s precisely what Dr. Werner Vogels delivered in his keynote at re:Invent 2022. As a cloud-scale conference…

In this five-part series, we discuss Granularity to bring awareness and how it benefits teams adopting serverless. Part 1: Individuality Part 2: Granular Mindset Part 3: Breaking the Microservices Part 4: Fine-Grained Teams Part 5: Event-Driven Architecture In Part 1: Individuality, the focus was on single-purpose, single responsibility, and individual…

I often talk about Granularity as one of the main benefits of Serverless. Yet, it is not something widely spoken about or appreciated beyond the technical borders of serverless. In this five-part series, I bring awareness to this topic, especially to the new serverless adopters, and provide clarity on how…

AWS re:Invent 2022 is getting closer. As the sessions registration opens on Tuesday, 11th October at 10AM PDT, I list here the sessions I will be keen to attend. re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Sessions catalog https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reinvent2022/dashboard/event/sessions The sessions below mainly include Breakout sessions and chalk talks — Session title, code, time, location