I have met many engineers whose career progression seemingly stops at “senior engineer”. It happens for many reasons: They found their sweet spot. Many engineers simply don’t want to be promoted. They love the project they are working on and enjoys being the subject matter expert in their domain. All they want is more of … How to break the “senior engineer” career ceiling Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-2-1 mentoring. [...]

Disclaimer: this is a long list, you don’t need to tick every box to go-live. Think of them as a ladder, the more critical a system the higher you should try and climb. Observability Enable detailed monitoring to get per-method metrics (e.g. latency for GET /index). Without this, CloudWatch only reports aggregated metrics for all … Check-list for going live with API Gateway and Lambda Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-2-1 m[...]

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Presently sponsored by Blue Matador: You've automated your infrastructure with serverless. Now automate your monitoring alerts with Blue Matador. Stop configuring alerts for your Lambda functions, just use Blue Matador. We're so confident you'll love it that we're offering $100 to demo it with our team. I’m a long-time user of the Serverless framework and a big fan of its plugin system. It offers tremendous flexibility and there exists a rich ecosystem of community-driven plugins. It’s easily the Serverles[...]

Presently sponsored by Blue Matador: You've automated your infrastructure with serverless. Now automate your monitoring alerts with Blue Matador. Stop configuring alerts for your Lambda functions, just use Blue Matador. We're so confident you'll love it that we're offering $100 to demo it with our team. Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Let’s work together in 2020 Are you still on the fence about serverless and need strategic guidance on how best to safely introduce serverless to your organization and [...]