Thoughts of Sheen Brisals!
3 min readOct 11, 2021
Contents
- About me!
- Upcoming conference talks
- Collection of articles
- Selected talks from the past
- Podcasts, interviews, and chats
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 co-authored Serverless Development on AWS (O’Reilly, 2024).
Two articles — Part 1 and Part 2 — detail the book's creation.
I am an AWS Serverless Hero!
2. Upcoming Conference Talks
- EDA Day, London — May 14, 2024: Operating Event-Driven Architectures with Quality in Mind
- Serverless Days, Sydney — May 21, 2024: Keynote
- Serverless Days, Auckland — May 24, 2024: Keynote
- COMSUM Manchester — September 26, 2024
- AWS Community Day, Bulgaria — October 12, 2024: The Enterprise Scale Of Measure!
3. Articles
Serverless Development
- 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
- 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
Life & Living
- 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
