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Nice to see a full house at the serverless days Manchester 💪

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you to everyone who attended my talk at the Serverless London meetup last night 🙏 Here are my slides for those who couldn't make it. You can try Evolua for free at evolua.io. We'd appreciate your feedback! speakerdeck.com/theburningmo...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

New post: How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock My biggest lesson learnt is that, at least for our use case, LLM is the easy part and there's still a lot of "app" in an "AI-powered app"!

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Wiz found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data like chat history 🤦‍♂️ www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I spoke with the co-founder of @hookdeck.com to find out what it can do, and it's impressive! There is a lot of focus on DX for building Event-Driven Architecture, and EventBridge can learn a lot from them. Have a look for yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmM...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

AWS Hero status renewed for another two years 😇 aws.amazon.com/developer/co...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

This is AWESOME!! EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. More details here: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Here's a mindmap of everything we'll cover in my 4-week boot camp starting on Monday. Are we missing anything that one should know for running serverless workloads in production? Detailed curriculum here: productionreadyserverless.com#curriculum

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

We're back with a new episode of real-world serverless. I spoke with @boyney123.bsky.social about the hard parts of building event-driven architectures and how EventCatalog can help with event documentation, discovery, versioning, visualization and testing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl7...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

oh, this is a toughie...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Stop wasting money on CORS preflight requests. Here's a quick tip for reducing API Gateway costs. 👇

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Confessions of a Big Tech and startups recruiter: with Blake Stockman. Blake has been a tech recruiter for 12 years, working at Google, Meta, Uber, Flexport, Y Combinator and startups. Full episode: • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6... • YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68 (cont'd)

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

This is still my favourite answer to "What does a software architect do?" Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Current status: working on Terraform track for productionreadyserverless.com ✅ Set up TF project & serverless.tf ✅ Support multi-account ✅ REST APIs with API Gateway and Lambda ✅ Testing with ephemeral environments ⃣ Event-Driven Architectures ⃣ Observability & performance

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I'm speaking at AWS Community Day Romania this April, in the beautiful city of Timisoara. Hope to see you there 👋 Their CFP is open until February, so there's still time to submit your talk. More details here: aws-community.ro

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

You might be paying for unused WAF ACLs that you can't see. Here's what I found in my latest bill. 👇

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

2024 was the year I got healthy 💪 and got back amongst the community. And it felt great! Here's what I got up to in 2024 and my most popular content: theburningmonk.com/2024/12/year... Wish you all a happy new year and hope to catch you in 2025! Ciao for now 👋

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I just burned $10,000 on marketing, and it taught me the hardest lesson of my career. I spent $10,000 on an ad agency and only got 3 sign-ups for my workshop, despite months of ad campaigns and plenty of clicks. Yet, 30% of students joined through word of mouth, another 30% through social media.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Do you build mulit-region applications on AWS? Then bookmark this page of AWS services and their multi-region capabilities. repost.aws/articles/AR0...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment