Cold Start: workshop, webinar, and...

Hi there,

We couldn't come up with a third "W" in the email subject because we're not as creative as Corey Quinn of Last Week in AWS. But that said...

We've been heads down this week and working hard! This week we'll be giving our first "Operationalizing Serverless" workshop to area Boston startups. Our goal isn't just to introduce serverless on AWS to companies, but to demonstrate it in a way that resembles how how an engineering team might implement their developer workflow. We're covering getting services deployed in AWS with Serverless Framework, local and remote testing, CI/CD for deploying to multiple environments (e.g. development and production), and how to debug failure with IOpipe. Interested in our workshop and training offerings? Let's chat!

The excitement doesn't stop there. I'll be a guest on the Signal Sciences webinar on April 9th where we'll discuss serverless security. On this webinar I'll be answering questions using my ops background while their James Wickett will be answering from his security background. Have questions about security when it comes to serverless? Feel free to email them back to me or tweet to @ServerlessOpsIO.

We're also proud to have been noticed last week by AWS for pushing the boundaries of innovation using Serverless Application Repository with our Application Cost Monitoring nanoservice. (Hint: See the Featured Apps screenshot.)

Finally, below is a collection of the exciting serverless pieces we've collected from around the internet. There's insight into the growth of serverless compared to VMs, a set of AWS announcements, and much more.

Cheers,

Tom at ServerlessOps

Serverless Now Rivals VMs Delivered as a Service
From The New Stack, some numbers on the growth of serverless. Most interesting in this data is the drop in developers utilizing VMs. VMs and Serverless are now on par with one another for adoption. VMs aren't going away anytime soon but developer attention is shifting away from them.

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Skip Containers And Do Serverless Computing Instead

Matt Asay of Adobe follows up on last week's "AWS Lambda: driven by the laggards" from James Governor. It's important to highlight that serverless isn't just a flashy technology for "cool kid" startups on the coasts. Serverless provides an opportunity for companies whose tech stack has been lagging to leapfrog to a modern tech stack.

Between the decline of VMs and the leapfrog opportunity serverless provides, how much sense does that planned AWS EC2 migration make now? Drop of us a line if you're planning your cloud migration and want to talk serverless. Since the formation of ServerlessOps we've seen cloud late-adopters as perfect companies to work with.

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Distribute Messages Effectively In Serverless Applications

This is a fantastic post from Epsagon on evaluating different message passing patterns on AWS between Lambda functions. Most interesting is they measured not just how long it takes to publish a message but also how long it takes for the receiving function to receive the event. The Kinesis results were surprising!

Remember, an operation as mundane as message passing takes on immense significance as you break down your microservices into independent nanoservices that need to communicate with one another.

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Migrating Existing Node.js Applications To Serverless
The authors of "Serverless Apps with Node and Claudia.js" walk through the process of organizing the work involved in migrating an Express app to serverless. No matter what language you use the concepts are applicable for when you start to breakdown your microservices to run serverless.

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50 Starter Kits And Resources For Building Serverless Apps
TechBeacon has put together an amazing list of serverless resources all on one page. You don't have to read it all now. Just bookmark it! Over time you can go through the entire wealth of information provided here.

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DynamoDB Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time Recovery
AWS just handled one more operational need around DynamoDB. You were backing up your DynamoDB tables and had point in time recovery already though right?...

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Serverless Bytes

Serverless Bytes, serverless bi... Not sure if this was a failed pun or not because we think serverless is pretty awesome. Watch Ronald Widha and Chris Munns do a 30 minute workshop on getting started with serverless apps on Twitch April 12th.

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Warrant: Python library for using AWS Cognito
We spent an awful several hours this week working with Cognito directly via boto3 as we built our workshop. Discovering warrant was so useful we had to mention it here. Check it out when you find yourself adding Cognito capabilities to your serverless Python project.

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