During this re:Invent, I’m sharing with you the biggest serverless-related announcements and what they mean for you in a series of hot-takes. Starting with, the biggest announcements from today’s keynote, plus a bunch of other important announcements just before r:Invent. 1. Lambda changes billing to per ms Lambda now bills you by the ms as … Serverless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1 Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-2-1 [...]

I have been involved with a client project to help the client launch a new social network for university students to engage with each other to do sports. Amongst other things, users can: Arrange activities and ask to join others’ activities (like a basketball match or to run in the park). There’s private messaging. Users … How I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack channel or 1-[...]

A common complaint I have heard about serverless applications is that they tend to look really complicated on architecture diagrams, with many moving parts. But does it mean serverless applications are more complex compared to their serverful counterparts? Before I get to that, let’s do a simple exercise. Serverful architectures Which of these two serverful … “Even simple serverless applications have complex architecture diagrams”, so what? Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get d[...]

My Production-Ready Serverless workshop is back in January 2021 and will feature all the latest changes and features from re:Invent 2020. This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn best practices for building serverless applications by building an e-commerce solution from scratch. By the end of the workshop, you should have a clear idea when serverless is a … Production-Ready Serverless is back! Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help from me via a private Slack c[...]

I have some exciting news to share with you. That after some initial delays, the AppSync Masterclass is now open for Early Access with 40% launch discount. First of all, thank you so much for your patience, it’s taken us a bit longer than we expected but we’re here, at last. You can purchase the … AppSync Masterclass is open for early access! 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. Hi, my name is Yan Cui. I’m [...]