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title: "Cold Start: Serverless financials blog post and tweets plus upcoming workshops"
description: How does serverless effect financials? A blog post and more on how. Plus, our upcoming workshop events!
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How does serverless effect financials? A blog post and more on how. Plus, our upcoming workshop events!

|       Hi there, Serverless Cost & FinDev This past week I had a tweet storm on serverless cost and FinDev. To sum it up, cost is important but without the context of budget and revenue, relying on it alone can yield less than optimal decisions. Currently I'm seeing cost tracking appear as a feature in some engineering focused products in the serverless ecosystem. I think there's a limited audience of engineers that adequately care about or fully understand cost, and those that do care are often stuck in the mindset of looking at their work only as a cost and not as a revenue generator. From a product standpoint I think cloud financials deserve their own product category. This would be a product that gives a fuller picture of serverless financials including cost, budget, and revenue. And, it should be developed for the appropriate user audiences which include members of finance, product management, and engineers. If you're interested in serverless and its implications on organization financials, then read our Serverless DevOps: Cost, Revenue, & FinDev blog post. My disagreement with products out there is not a criticism either. And if you currently need cost tracking take a look at Epsagon. By the way, we didn't write that blog post just last week. We have something bigger coming soon but this chapter fit perfectly with this week's activity. 🤔 Boston and LISA Serverless Workshop We have two upcoming AWS serverless workshop events coming up. Our first is in Boston on 10/17 while our second is at USENIX LISA on 10/30. If you're in the Boston area or will be attending USENIX LISA then check one out! Boston workshop USENIX LISA workshop Closing I'm Tom from ServerlessOps and we provide services to make you successful with your DevOps transformation and AWS migration. 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 Building Serverless Apps Using Stackery The folks at Stackery provide a different way to build serverless applications and Rupak Ganguly demonstrates how. 🏗 Read This Piece » Serverless solution to monitor the storage of your DynamoDB tables The AWS blog shows how to build a system to monitor the storage of your DynamoDB tables Read This Piece » AWS Lambda + Serverless Framework + Python —  A Step By Step Tutorial  —  Part 2 Step by step how to use AWS KMS with Lambda using Python and Serverless Framework. Read This Piece » An Introduction to Serverless Microservices Your introduction to serverless microservices with Jeremy Daly. Read This Piece » Investigating spikes in AWS Lambda function concurrency How do you investigating spikes in AWS Lambda function concurrency? Read This Piece » The Best 5 Use Cases For The Serverless Beginner Getting started with serverless and need a project idea? Here's five uses cases to spur ideas. Read This Piece » Digital Enterprise Means Less Today: Serverless, Timeless, Frictionless I include this because it's worthwhile to know what your boss is reading about serverless. Read This Piece » How did we do on this edition?   or         We're ServerlessOps and we help you design, build, and run reliable serverless systems in AWS. Whether you're a startup, cloud native, or just beginning your cloud journey, we're here for you. We work with you to identify where serverless fits your needs, build necessary infrastructure and tooling, and work with your engineering team to make going serverless a team success. If this sounds exciting to you then drop us a line at hello@serverlessops.io to discuss how we can work together.       ServerlessOps Causeway St Boston, MA 02114   You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive content from ServerlessOps on our blog. If you don't want to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe at any time. You can also view this email as a webpage.   |
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