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title: "Cold Start: ServerlessDays and Stackery workshop, numerous security links, and more this week!"
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Next week we'll be at ServerlessDays Boston PLUS doing a workshop with Stackery! Read on...

|       Have a look at this week's Cold Start newsletter from ServerlessOps! Each week we bring commentary and links from around the serverless ecosystem. Plus, you'll also find out about the latest we've been up to as well. Hi there, ServerlessOps & At ServerlessDays Boston Reminder here folks, next week on Tuesday (3/12) will be at ServerlessDays Boston and I'll be speaking there. If you haven't already signed up, do so with our 10% discount. Tickets >> ServerlessDays Boston Stackery Workshop Also if you're attending next week, make sure on Monday (3/11) to checkout the workshop we're presenting with Stackery! We'll walk through building a serverless application using their awesome visually driven interface. Sign up >> Stackery WORKSHOP & HAPPY HOUR AWS & Serverless Security Last week there was a wealth of AWS and serverless security material that came out. So much so that we've dedicated an entire section to all of them this week! [ebook] The 12 Most Critical Risks for Serverless Applications 2019 Guide by PureSec. Also check out their blog post AWS Security Best Practices for API Gateway too. AWS has updated it's penetration testing rules. Deploy your pen-testers but make sure you read the rules first about what you're allowed to do. Understand serverless event injection attacks with the help of Stackery and Twistlock. [video] Continuous Compliance on AWS using AWS Config Rules by Paul Duvall of Stelligent. How to visualize Amazon GuardDuty findings: serverless edition on the AWS Security blog. [ebook] The State Of Open Source Security Report by Snyk is out. Now that you're not securing OS packages, time to secure those application dependencies. Coming Events Here's some of the coming serverless events for you to catch. Have an event you'd like to promote? Then drop an email to us. 3/7: Best Practices to Monitor and Troubleshoot Serverless Applications by Cloud Academy and Epsagon (webinar) 3/12: ServerlessDays Boston. (Use our 10% discount!) 3/27: AWS Summit Santa Clara 3/29: ServerlessDays Amsterdam 4/9-10: ServerlessDays + DevOpsDays + MapCamp Atlanta 6/25-26: AWS re:Inforce 10/7-9: ServerlessConf NYC - CFP closes 6/3 11/6-8: Serverless Computing London - CFP closes 5/3 Company Updates What's new in the world of serverless companies? Here's a few announcements that caught our attention this week. Stackery: They've announced a new free tier. Thundra: Their Go agent now has OpenTracing compatibility. This Week's Links Finally in this week's edition of Cold Start we have links on: Migrating a monolithic app to serverless Jsonnet, better than JSON? Ways to explain serverless in plain English and more... Have a blog post on serverless you wish others to see? Maybe you want to write for our blog as a contributor? Shoot us a message. Closing I'm Tom from ServerlessOps and we provide a range of services around DevOps transformation, AWS migration, serverless training, and startup cloud operations. See our services to learn more. 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 Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal By Paul Swail Read This Piece » Cutting Through the Layers: AWS Lambda Layers Explained By Michael Lavers of IOpipe Read This Piece » AWS Lambda – Lean Single Purpose or Monolithic Function By Serverless Life Read This Piece » How we used DynamoDB Streams to visualize changes in frequently updated objects By Maja Grubic & Sofia Tzima of Intercom Read This Piece » Design patterns for high-volume, time-series data in Amazon DynamoDB By Alex Casalboni of AWS Read This Piece » Announcing cf-macro-jsonnet By Andrea Bedini of KZN Read This Piece » GitFlow Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy By Ashish Gore of AWS Read This Piece » Serverless automation around GitHub By Marc Nyholm of Trustpilot Read This Piece » How to explain serverless in plain English By Kevin Casey Read This Piece » AWS Lambda for .NET Developers By Marc Roussy Read This Piece » Enjoy what you've read? Subscribe to our mailing list Cold Start.       We're ServerlessOps and we provide a range of services around DevOps transformation, AWS migration, serverless training, and startup cloud operations.  Drop us a line at hello@serverlessops.io to discuss how we can work together or see our services to learn more.       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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