Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Real-World Serverless podcast Since the last update, we have had quite a few new episodes, covering a wide range of topics: #25: Well-Architected Serverless with Heitor Lessa #26: Serverless chatbots with Gillian Armstrong #27: Serverless at A Cloud Guru with Dale Salter #28: Serverless Machine Learning with Carl Osipov … Weekly update 48 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.[...]

In most discussions about how to make programming better, someone eventually says something along the lines of "we'll just have to wait until deep learning solves the problem!" I think this is a naively optimistic idea, but it raises one interesting question: In what sense are programs created using deep learning a different kind of programs than those written by hand? This question recently arose in discussions that we have been having as part of the PROGRAMme project, which explores historical and phi[...]

I cannot be sure–I don’t know if there’s any formal diagnostic that a mental health professional can perform to diagnose impostor syndrome (assuming it’s even a recognized mental health concern). So I won’t say that I suffer from impostor syndrome but it’d be hard for me to imagine that I have never felt the effects […]

So I started my morning, as I often do, by looking at Twitter. It’s better than a demitasse of espresso in terms of raising my blood pressure. One thing I see over and over again on Twitter is the rather common false dilemma logical fallacy. And this fallacy seems to be in play a lot […]

I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names. Your shiny new AppSync API is available at XYZ.appsync-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/graphql, but you really want people to use your own domain instead because dev.example.com/graphql is much … How to set up custom domain names for AppSync Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help fro[...]