Cold Start: Our new website and our serverless security blog post

Hi there,

New Website!

We've unveiled our newly redesigned website!

It was time for us to update it because we've gone through a lot of change since we first started. We've been candid about our transformation as a company. What started as a serverless engineering consultancy has transformed into a DevOps transformation and AWS migration advisory company.

Why our change? Because over the months of exploring serverless our understanding of its value has changed significantly. Serverless is more of a business revolution than a technical revolution. Serverless is a better enabler of organizational improvement than other existing cloud technology solutions. And further down the road we'll be looking at ideas not easily possible before! For example, tracking revenue flow generated by our applications and ideas we've yet to explore.

Serverless technology is great... But the new opportunities serverless enables are even more important.

New Blog Post On Serverless Security

Last week we released Serverless DevOps: Security. We explore the role of Operations when their's no more hosts to patch. Serverless shifts more work we're accustomed to performing over to your public cloud provider. This is a good thing! It frees us up to focus on issues higher up the stack. However, this might be unfamiliar territory for some of us. Give it a read!

We're continuing to expand our Serverless DevOps series and there's more to come.

Product Space Announcements

This past week several companies took advantage of the serverless buzz to make some announcements.

Serverless, Inc announced their Serverless Platform and a $10 Million Series A funding.
PureSec released their FunctionShield library for free.
Epsagon released a free tool to measure serverless system cost.
Thundra released their Splunk integration feature.

Closing

I'm Tom from ServerlessOps and we provide services to make you successful with your DevOps transformation and enhancement through AWS serverless adoption. Ask us about our training and advisory services.

Also let us know what you think of this week's Cold Start using the 👍/👎 links at the end of this email!

Cheers,
Tom at ServerlessOps

ServerlessConf 2018 San Francisco

If you missed ServerlessConf last week then catch the recap here.

Bringing development to the non-developer is a topic of interest to us. ServerlessOps started with the question of how do we make operations engineers with minimal coding background a success with serverless. Andrea Passwater of Serverless, Inc and Keith Horwood of StdLib had talks that take this a step further. How can serverless enable the non-developer?

In previous issues of this newsletter we've talked about the serverless product space. We're still building products for us as engineers. We haven't yet reached the phase of regularly using serverless to build products for others. When we reach that stage we're really going to start exploiting the changes serverless technology brings.

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The New Stack Serverless Survey
The folks at The New Stack have released a survey of the serverless community. The New Stack has consistently had their fingers on the pulse of where tech is going. Take the time to fill it out.

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Analyzing CloudTrail with Athena

Step 1 in securing AWS: Enable CloudTrail

Step 2 in securing AWS: Actually look at the data

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The Hidden Challenges Of Serverless
Everything new has its own unique set of challenges to solve. Here's an extensive list of what to expect when expecting to go serverless.

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Serverless Testing In Production
No environment will tell you more about what can go wrong in production than production itself. How do you test in it though?

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Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless Platforms

This paper compares the resource utilization and performance characteristics of the major serverless compute / function platforms. It was recently presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference. This is the first scholarly work comparing the different offerings that I'm aware of.

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How Verizon Is Solving The Challenges Of Going Serverless
Verizon is going serverless. I include stories like this to keep reminding people that serverless is coming to your enterprise company sooner rather than later.

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