AWS Application Composer is a huge step in visually designing AWS architectures. It allows you to quickly prototype your #serverless applications and deploy them using AWS Sam. Check this out!

"The world is event-driven," and AWS services can help you build like it! We just launched a brand new event-driven architectures hub on Serverless Land to help you learn all about building event-driven on AWS 🚀

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

#2. Everyone's talking about it...Lambda SnapStart. SnapStart is an opt-in feature which snapshots a functions memory post-invocation and uses that snapshot for future invocations to reduce cold start time, initially available for Java. Be careful of the nuances for this one!

Does anybody at the gym actually know what they’re doing? Trying to figure out who to copy.

So, Amazon Web Services announced some cool things last week at re:Invent, but for me, the real news was AWS' growing commitment to tighter integration btwn its services, more love for third-party products, & greater open source commitment infoworld.com/article/368215… by Matt Asay for InfoWorld

Are you working with event-driven architectures? What do you think is the most difficult part of testing these event-driven architectures?

Here's a fun blueprint in Amazon CodeCatalyst: a full DevOps Deployment pipeline packaged up for you. Java Spring Boot API w/ECS, Aurora. VPC, ECS Cluster, load balancer, CloudWatch Synthetics Canary and SCA. Beta, Gamma, and Prod accounts. Oh my! AWS Developers

Stop playing devil’s advocate. The devil has enough advocates.

Crossplane v1.11 is now available! This was the biggest crossplane release in quite some time, with lots of exciting features like Composition Functions, EnvironmentConfig, and a full docs site rewrite! Read all the details in the release notes 🥳🔥 github.com/crossplane/cro…

Kelsey Hightower Adrian Cockcroft created a really nice 3 minute clip describing the evolution of monolith -> microservices -> functions youtu.be/aBcG57Gw9k0

Today it’s 7 simple tips for building #Serverless event-driven applications: 🧵 1/7 Identify events and event sources early: Determine the events that matter to your application and identify the sources that generate those events. serverlessland.com/event-driven-a…

This is a terrific piece and a fun read -- an extremely in-depth dissertation on coupling in distributed systems, the costs of decoupling, tradeoffs in architecture, serverless, and more (tis a long and winding road). architectelevator.com/cloud/cloud-de… by Gregor

An excellent post from Massimo Re Ferrè explaining a industry trend with customers using Kubernetes as an API. Solid read. #aws #k8s #CloudComputing

Full house as Carlos Santana talks about Disaster recovery with #ArgoCD, #Kubernetes, and #Crossplane | #cdCon+#GitOpsCon

I'm excited to share the AWS Open Source Symposium will be hosted in London this year on June 6th. If you're interested in meeting other AWS customers building developer platforms and data platforms on AWS with OSS technologies please register here: …sourcesymposium-london.splashthat.com

Still not too late to register!

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👻🎃PLATFORM ENG SPACE👻🎃 Let’s dive into some real world usage of Platform Engineering. We’ve got Carlos Santana (🎸🎤😎)…. THE VERY SAME ONE🙀🙀…who sings the Ballads of Kubernetes 🎶 Join us on Wednesday 10/25 @ 11am ET, 5pm CEST, 8:30pm IST!!👇🏽 x.com/i/spaces/1YqKD…

Nathan Taber, Head of Product - EKS announcing donation of Karpenter project to SIG-Autoscaling in Kubernetes during the "Reduce Reuse Recycle" keynote! #kubernetes #karpenter Kubernetes CNCF