AWS re:Invent 2022 — My Seasonal Highlights

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, re:Invent serves a different purpose to different people. It is a stage to bring and sell ideas, show technology directions, showcase innovations, incubate business visions, listen to the community, learn from the experts, create business opportunities, and of course, criticize when things fall short of expectations!

In this brief article, I focus on the things that I liked and will help with the future of serverless and its adoption.

Intellectual re:Invent

As Werner mentioned in his keynote, many thought-leaders of software architecture have been advocating for event-driven computing and building loosely coupled applications for years. Thanks to cloud and serverless, what many of us pushed aside as hard to achieve with previous generation technologies is now available as a commodity for everyone. Hence the urge to shift our minds to change our thinking!