Thoughts of Sheen Brisals!
4 min readOct 11, 2021
Contents
1. About me!
I am Sheen Brisals, an engineer, writer, and speaker. I love sharing what I have learned with the community. Below are some of my thoughts on technology and life.
I am writing Speak Effectively at Conferences: How to Plan, Practice, and Perform.
I co-authored Serverless Development on AWS (O’Reilly, 2024).
I am an
- AWS Serverless Hero!
- Team Topologies Advocate!
2. Upcoming Conference Talks
- Serverless Days, Manchester— February 20, 2025: Embracing Complexity in Serverless!
- Agile India 2025, Bengaluru — March 25–27, 2025: 1) Is there a place for QA in modern autonomous fast-flow teams? 2) Patterns and practices for developing enterprise-scale applications with serverless!
- Software Quality Days, Munich — May 20-22, 2025: How to untangle the complexity of modern applications with event-driven architecture
- Code Europe, Krakow, Poland — June 30 — July 1, 2025
If you would like me to speak at your event, please get in touch with me on LinkedIn.
3. Articles
Serverless Development
- Being Functionless: How to develop a serverless mindset to write less code!
- It’s Not About The Number Of Tiers. It’s About How You Tie Them!
- Is cost a real concern in serverless?
- Is The Serverless Fairytale Over?
- Architect Serverless Applications with Anticorruption Layers
- Revive Your Well-Architected Thinking With SCORPS!
- Is Serverless Hard To Adopt?
- The FIRST Principles For A Successful Serverless Adoption
- Think Granular To Go Faster In Serverless — Part 1: Individuality
- Think Granular To Go Faster In Serverless — Part 2: Granular Mind
- Serverless Adoption: Is Cost Still The Main Factor?
- Serverless is for Everyone!
- Accelerating with Serverless!
- Why the ‘WHY’ matters more than the ‘WHAT’ in Serverless!
- Hello! Serverless Engineer, where are you?
Software Engineering
- The Curious Case Of QA In A Serverless Team
- The Significance of Solution Design in Serverless — Part I
- Capturing Solution Design Details in Serverless — Part II
- Why Serverless Teams Should Embrace Continuous Refactoring
- From Legacy To Serverless: An Engineer’s Journey Essentials
- Grow, not Build, Your Serverless Team!
Set-Piece Microservices Development
- Think and Develop Serverless Applications as ‘Set-Pieces’
- Serverless Set-Piece Development Case Study
Sustainability in serverless
- Think Sustainability While Developing Serverless Application — Part I
- Building Sustainable Serverless Applications — Part II
- Sustainable Development Processes In Serverless — Part III
- Importance of the Sustainability of the Cloud in Serverless — Part IV
- Sustainability Patterns for Serverless: Data and Storage — Part V
Lambda functions and functionless
- Lambda Destinations
- Single Purpose Functions or Multi Purpose Function
- Generating Sequence Numbers in Serverless via API Gateway
- Functionless S3 Integration
- Don’t wait for Functionless. Write less Functions instead
Amazon EventBridge — Patterns and Practices
- The power of Amazon EventBridge is in its detail
- A fishing analogy for EventBridge filtering rules
- A Case for Event Batching in Amazon EventBridge
- Part-1: Amazon EventBridge: API Destinations Demystified
- Part-2: Amazon EventBridge: Managing API Connection Credentials with AWS Secrets Manager
- Part-1: How To Build Better Orchestrations With AWS Step Functions, Task Tokens, And Amazon EventBridge!
- Part-2: How to Use EventBridge Archive & Replay To Handle Failure Retry Use Cases
- Amazon EventBridge Archive-Replay: An Experience Report
DynamoDB
Security & Threats
- Why Threat Modelling Should Be Part of Your Serverless Development
- A Few Steps To Conduct Threat Modelling in Serverless Applications
General
- How to be an engineer!
- Become an invisible tech community influencer
- AWS re:Invent 2023 — My Selection Of Sessions
- AWS re:Invent 2022 — My Seasonal Highlights
- AWS re:Invent 2022 — My Selection Of Sessions
Series: Are You An Aspiring Speaker?
- Conferences based on geography!
- Know the monetary benefits!
- Learn to show gratitude!
- The importance of bookkeeping!
Life & Living
- Why You Must Be Bold To Share Your Knowledge!
- Inspire young minds in the least expected ways!
- Be A Starter To Become A Finisher!
- From Clutter to Clarity: Structure Your Thoughts With A Mind Map
- Are You Buying A Technical Book? Read These Recommendations
- The Ethics Of Social Media Connections And Followers!
- More Than 10,000 Years Have Passed. Our Work-Life Balance Is Still In Disarray
- My Serverless Cold-Start And How I Stay Warm
- What I Learned From The Man Who Talked To The River
- How To Improve Your Day With A Morning Walk
- “Build for the Customer, Not for Yourself” — My First Career Lesson
4. Selected Talks From The Past
Talk Slides
5. Podcasts & Chats
- GOTO Book Club: Serverless Development on AWS
- Writing Serverless Development on AWS with Serverless Guru
- Is serverless becoming the new norm?: AntStack TV with Prashanth
- aws.fm #8 with Adam Elmore
- ServerlessChats #20 with Jeremy Daly
- Real World Serverless with Yan Cui
- Serverless Transformation with Ben Ellerby
- Think. Design. Work Smart with Alex Bolboaca
- re:Invent Chat with Marcia at FooBar Serverless
