Cold Start: On The Road Again

Hi there,

We've been busy traveling and we continue to be busy traveling this week. Catch up right now with where we've been and where we're going.

Conferences

Last week we were at DevOpsDays Denver and this week we're at DevOpsDays Seattle! I'm giving a talk titled "Flying v. Driving: Myths, fears, and opportunity when going serverless". My talk covers some of the routine objections around serverless such as AWS reliability, cost, and lack of platform ownership and control. These objections are presented in the context of why I opted to fly to each conference instead of drive. We think the analogy works quite well and we've received some great feedback on the talk already.

While we're here, please consider submitting to DevOpsDays events. Serverless still has a lot of skepticism among the ops community, and compared to Kubernetes and Docker it has little representation. More real world talks about running serverless systems in production would be greatly beneficial. Not sure about submitting? Reach out and I'm happy to discuss coming up with talks to present and writing abstracts based on my experiences.

Coming this week on our blog...

How do operations engineers provide the most value and establish best practices in their organization? The short answer is "infrastructure as code". But what does implementing that in a serverless environment look like and what are we missing?

Closing

Have a great week and if you're at DevOpsDays Seattle come say hi! As always, let us know what you think of this email using the thumbs up and thumbs down links at the end of this email.

Cheers,
Tom at ServerlessOps

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Thundra has been taking a very interesting approach to observability. The product takes a passive approach to implementation and setup. This starts with their decision to use CloudWatch for publishing data to their platform. Now they demonstrate their approach to instrumentation which involves minimal code. Thundra continues to make interesting and unique choices.

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Sigma IDE: The New Kid on the Serverless Block
Sigma from the folks at SLAppForge is one of the most unique IDEs we've seen. Rather than creating a basic IDE that you can use from a web browser, they've created an IDE with a workflow and features that make sense when building serverless applications. The ability to drag and drop AWS resources and fill in code makes this IDE standout. We just wish it had Python support. So far there's just JavaScript.

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Debugging a serverless app written in AWS Transcribe and AWS Lambda with IOpipe
Did you catch robot.bingo from IOpipe during the recent AWS Summit? Even if you didn't, catch up on how IOpipe used their product to debug the application while it was live.

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Screaming In The Cloud: The Robot Uprising Will Have Very Clean Floors (podcast)
This past week Ben Kehoe of iRobot appeared on Corey Quinn's Screaming In The Cloud podcast. If you can't tell from the title, this will probably be the most informative and interesting conversation with a vacuum salesman ever.

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How to Use MongoDB Connection Pooling on AWS Lambda
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Serverless-Side Rendering With AWS Lambda & NuxtJS
Recently we were a part of a conversation about what use cases serverless was not a fit for. A use case that came up was frontend services where one wants server side rendering. Here comes a timely post on the subject using VueJS and Nuxt.js.

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Least Privilege for AWS Lambda Security
The serverless security space is growing and we've just noticed Protego. They're addressing serverless security from the infrastructure instead of application side. Their ability to map the relationships between resources so you can enforce least privileged access is not only interesting but actually useful.

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