https://blog.symphonia.io/ Recent content on The Symphonium Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Symphonia LLC Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:00 -0500 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-11-24_code_example_updates_for_programming_aws_lambda/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:00 -0500 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-11-24_code_example_updates_for_programming_aws_lambda/ Six years on it was time to update the runtime version, and a few other things, for our book examples. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-10-21_deployment_automation_for_organizations_with_github_actions/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:40:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-10-21_deployment_automation_for_organizations_with_github_actions/ GitHub Actions is a popular automation / CI/CD tool for deploying to AWS. Here are several detailed examples that will help you make the best of it when using an AWS Organization. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-10-21_deployment_automation_for_organizations/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:40:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-10-21_deployment_automation_for_organizations/ Automating deployment of cloud resources via a “CI/CD” tool is now common practice. This article shows you a structured approach to integrating such tools into your AWS Organization. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-08-08_aws_lambda_deploy_github_action/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:30:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-08-08_aws_lambda_deploy_github_action/ AWS now support deploying Lambda directly from GitHub Actions. While this sounds like a good idea it doesn’t solve most of the problem, and it makes CI/CD breakages more likely. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-07-28_infrastructure_as_code_for_organizations/ Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:40:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-07-28_infrastructure_as_code_for_organizations/ Infrastructure-as-Code is a standard technique that brings speed, effort, and safety benefits to software and infrastructure deployment. With a few specific nuances it can be effectively used with resources managed within an AWS Organization, and is a valuable addition to your Org Ops strategy. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-07-16_using_identity_center_for_aws_human_user_management/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-07-16_using_identity_center_for_aws_human_user_management/ This article introduces you to AWS’ solution to securing your Organization for human access - Identity Center. By the end of this article you’ll understand why you may want to use it, and be able to configure appropriate and secure human user access across your entire AWS Organization with relatively little effort. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-07-03_building_your_multi_account_aws_organization/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:45:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-07-03_building_your_multi_account_aws_organization/ Once you’ve planned the structure of your AWS Organization, you need to build it out. This article helps you prepare and implement the Accounts in your standardized Organization. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-06-25_moving_to_multi_account_aws_organization/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-06-25_moving_to_multi_account_aws_organization/ It makes sense for most companies using AWS to adopt a multi-Account AWS Organization. This article explains why, and how you can start planning a structured Organization as part of a holistic approach to company-wide “org ops”. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-04-16_organizing_source_code_serverless_projects/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-04-16_organizing_source_code_serverless_projects/ Cicada Note #6 - How I organize application and infrastructure source code, with special thought for for projects using CDK and Pulumi. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-11-19_a_quick_symphonia_update/ Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:00 -0500 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-11-19_a_quick_symphonia_update/ Symphonia is now a one-man-band! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-05-21_code_repo_part_one/ Tue, 21 May 2024 18:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-05-21_code_repo_part_one/ Cicada Note #5 - There is little standardization in the Javascript world on how to layout a project repository, not even for serverless TypeScript apps. This is how I do it, starting with the project root directory. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-05-01_resource_groups/ Wed, 01 May 2024 15:01:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-05-01_resource_groups/ Cicada Note #4 - How to scale deployment when working with multiple serverless functions https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-17_using-cicada/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:01:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-17_using-cicada/ Cicada Note #3 - A demonstration of Cicada’s web interface and notifications https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-15_cicada-service-architecture/ Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:01:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-15_cicada-service-architecture/ Cicada Note #2 - Drilling into Cicada’s architecture by one level to look at the primary AWS services used, and the interactions between them. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-09_cicada-interface-architecture/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:01:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-09_cicada-interface-architecture/ Cicada Note #1 - Cicada’s top-level components and the interfaces between then. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-09_introducing-cicada/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2024-04-09_introducing-cicada/ Cicada is an application that is both a full example of building a real application using Serverless techniques on AWS, and also a practical monitoring tool for GitHub. This article introduces Cicada, and Cicada Notes. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-03-21_serverless-insights-march-2023/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:30:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-03-21_serverless-insights-march-2023/ Serverless in 2023 - a chasm crossed? https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-03-15_serverless-2023/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-03-15_serverless-2023/ I was recently a guest on the ThoughtWorks Tech Podcast to give my thoughts about the state of Serverless today. We covered a lot, but the main conversation points to me were: https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-01-24_snapstart-how/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-01-24_snapstart-how/ The second of two articles about AWS Lambda SnapStart, this looks at how developers can update their existing Java Lambda applications to use SnapStart, and what performance improvements they might expect to see. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-01-11_snapstart-what-why/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:30:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-01-11_snapstart-what-why/ At reInvent 2022 AWS announced “SnapStart” - a new Lambda capability to drastically improve cold starts when using Lambda with Java, or other JVM languages. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-10-24_lambda-powertools/ Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-10-24_lambda-powertools/ AWS Lambda is my preferred runtime environment for cloud-based code. Lambda has gained many, many, features over the eight years since it was launched. Most of these are focussed on the Lambda runtime - more CPUs, more memory, different CPU architectures, many more language runtimes, custom runtimes, integration with approximately a bajillion other services, etc. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-09-20_starting-with-cdk-part-2/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:20:52 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-09-20_starting-with-cdk-part-2/ Welcome to Part 2 of “Starting with CDK” . In Part 1 I helped you prepare your environments for CDK, as well as deploy and examine your first CDK application. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-09-19_starting-with-cdk-part-1/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:00:52 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-09-19_starting-with-cdk-part-1/ The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a tool you can use to deploy applications and infrastructure to AWS. From one of my earlier articles: https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-08-02_java_lambda_frenemies/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-08-02_java_lambda_frenemies/ This is a cross-post from the Cockroach Labs blog. Cockroach Labs have been kind enough to sponsor our book Programming AWS Lambda, which you can download for free from the Cockroach Labs website. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-07-20_lambda_event_routing/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-07-20_lambda_event_routing/ Simple, single-responsiblity, AWS Lambda applications have one Lambda function and one event source. You might use API Gateway to provide a simple HTTP-callable interface to a Lambda function. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-06-07_cdk_good_bad_scary/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-06-07_cdk_good_bad_scary/ AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) has become, in its short history, a very popular infrastructure-as-code tool. It’s not too surprising why - it allows engineers to use richer programming languages to define infrastructure, rather than having to use JSON or YAML. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-10-13_how_to_prepare_for_the_coming_cpu_confusion/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:00:00 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-10-13_how_to_prepare_for_the_coming_cpu_confusion/ The server-side software industry is about to switch from x86 to ARM CPUs. How can you get ready for this big change? https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-09-23_books_elevators_serverless_data_platforms/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:34:40 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-09-23_books_elevators_serverless_data_platforms/ Symphonia’s September 2020 newsletter, with some thoughts around hybrid architecture strategy https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-08-19_serverless_testing/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:34:40 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-08-19_serverless_testing/ A strategy for considering serverless and testing, which bucks the trend of other opinions in the industry. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-08-18_aws_glue_2_0/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:26:18 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-08-18_aws_glue_2_0/ Serverless isn’t just Lambda Here at Symphonia, we’re proponents of all things Serverless. This means that in addition to technologies like AWS Lambda, we make heavy use of managed backends-as-a-service that address concerns like scaling, resource allocation, and process management, while giving us and our clients granular billing with minimal fixed costs. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-08-13_cloud_coffee_break_episode_one/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:56:12 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-08-13_cloud_coffee_break_episode_one/ Hi everyone, Mike here! I’ve been missing chatting to folks at conferences and meetups, so here’s a little experiment. Broadcast from my own home, it’s “Cloud Coffee Break”! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-06-30_analyzing_cold_start_latency_of_aws_lambda/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:34:40 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-06-30_analyzing_cold_start_latency_of_aws_lambda/ Deep dive into cold starts, with some surprises related to regions, volatility, and ‘cool’ starts https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-05-04_serverless_chats_podcast/ Mon, 04 May 2020 14:34:40 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-05-04_serverless_chats_podcast/ Chatting with Jeremy Daly. We get into testing; why & how to avoid building “lambdaliths”; cold starts; architecture; and more. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-04-29_debugging_aws_lambda_functions_with_thundra/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:34:40 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-04-29_debugging_aws_lambda_functions_with_thundra/ Debug cloud-deployed Lambda functions from your IDE https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-04-01_programming_aws_lambda_book/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:34:40 -0400 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-04-01_programming_aws_lambda_book/ All of our knowledge of running AWS Lambda with Java, wrapped up into 250 pages! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-01-22_code_pipeline_versioner/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:56:12 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2020-01-22_code_pipeline_versioner/ AWS CodePipeline is AWS’ CD orchestration tool. We’re fans of CodePipeline at Symphonia : we use it with our clients, and on our own projects. To read a quick overview of CodePipeline see this earlier article that I wrote. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2019-08-20_some-new-serverless-architecture-videos-from-john-and-mike/ Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:56:12 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2019-08-20_some-new-serverless-architecture-videos-from-john-and-mike/ Hi everyone. It’s been a great, fascinating, and busy 2019 for John and I (Mike) at Symphonia. You’ll probably be able to tell that we haven’t had too much spare time because of the lack of updates around these parts! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2019-01-21_continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-on-aws/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:01:13 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2019-01-21_continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-on-aws/ Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are techniques that I’ve had a passion about for a long time. Back in the Dim And Distant Past of 2003 I even co-led an open source project that brought some at-the-time interesting innovations to this area. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-12-07_did-you-get-your-reinvent-holiday-wish/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:16:13 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-12-07_did-you-get-your-reinvent-holiday-wish/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-11-15_what-are-our-reinvent-predictions-and-updates/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:45:40 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-11-15_what-are-our-reinvent-predictions-and-updates/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. Hello everyone from the snowy world of Symphonia! Yes, winter’s first storm has come to New York City. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-06-19_symphonia-at-velocity-2018-and-more-serverless-insights/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:41:37 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-06-19_symphonia-at-velocity-2018-and-more-serverless-insights/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. Hello friendly Serverless Insights subscribers! Summer has arrived in New York City — a time when locals scramble to find rooftops, dodge a million dripping air conditioners, and wonder how bodegas are selling pumpkin beer already. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-05-22_revisiting-serverless-architectures/ Tue, 22 May 2018 20:21:46 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-05-22_revisiting-serverless-architectures/ I started writing “Serverless Architectures” in May 2016. At that point I’d recently finished up at my previous job, had just been to the first Serverlessconf, hadn’t done much writing in a while, had some time on my hands, and so decided to put a few ideas together. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-03-14_examining-the-aws-serverless-application-repository/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:19:42 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-03-14_examining-the-aws-serverless-application-repository/ AWS announced a new service — the Serverless Application Repository (SAR) — at re:Invent 2017. The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-03-13_symphonias-serverless-insights-march-2018/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:47:37 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2018-03-13_symphonias-serverless-insights-march-2018/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. Hello everyone, and welcome to the first Symphonia Serverless Insights of 2018! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-12-19_symphonias-serverless-insights-december-2017/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:13:47 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-12-19_symphonias-serverless-insights-december-2017/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. Hello everyone, and welcome to the last Serverless Insights of 2017! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-12-13_aws-lambda-reserved-concurrency/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:47:57 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-12-13_aws-lambda-reserved-concurrency/ Lambda is a wonderful platform. However, it is still in its early years, and has a number of limitations and rough edges. One of those edges — that of the ability to overwhelm downstream systems with unfettered load — got a lot smoother at re:Invent 2017. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-12-06_serverless-at-reinvent-2017/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:58:15 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-12-06_serverless-at-reinvent-2017/ The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-21_symphonias-serverless-insights-november-2017/ Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:31:34 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-21_symphonias-serverless-insights-november-2017/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. Hello all, and welcome to a special ‘pre:Invent’ edition of our Serverless Insights. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-16_learning-lambda-part-9/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:00:39 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-16_learning-lambda-part-9/ This is Part 9 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-14_learning-lambda-part-8/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:25:19 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-14_learning-lambda-part-8/ This is Part 8 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-09_learning-lambda/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:18:37 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-09_learning-lambda/ Learning Lambda is an ongoing series of articles that give you a deep dive into programming on the AWS Lambda Platform. We start from first principles, and we explain what is going on in the Lambda environment as we proceed. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-01_learning-lambda-part-7/ Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:17:56 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-11-01_learning-lambda-part-7/ This is Part 7 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-10-30_serverless-glue-apps-in-aws-and-sending-slack-notifications-for-code-pipeline-events/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:53:55 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-10-30_serverless-glue-apps-in-aws-and-sending-slack-notifications-for-code-pipeline-events/ When John and I give our introductory presentations about Serverless we list 3 typical use-cases: Web apps / web APIs Data Pipelines ‘Glue’ apps This last category is one of the most popular usages of Serverless that we see at present. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-10-27_symphonias-serverless-insights-october-2017/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:31:15 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-10-27_symphonias-serverless-insights-october-2017/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. News from the Serverless World The biggest update from the industry is that we had another global gathering of Serverless enthusiasts here in New York City for the 5th ServerlessConf, ably produced by our friends at A Cloud Guru. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-09-13_aws-lambda-livelessons/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:28:55 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-09-13_aws-lambda-livelessons/ John and Mike are very excited to announce their first online training course. AWS Lambda: Developing Serverless Applications with Java is a complete online course that takes you from first principles, through to advanced topics. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-09-07_flurry-of-updates/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:20:58 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-09-07_flurry-of-updates/ Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had a lot of articles and videos published on other sites, so here’s a roundup : We published an article with O’Reilly — Using serverless architectures to build applications with AWS and Java . https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-09-07_all-of-our-content/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:14:37 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-09-07_all-of-our-content/ Here at Symphonia we’re glad that we’re able to put a lot of articles, videos, and code online. After all, our mission is not just to work with our clients, but to also help advance our industry. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-08-24_symphonias-serverless-insights-august-2017/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:57:58 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-08-24_symphonias-serverless-insights-august-2017/ This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. News from the Serverless World It’s been an interesting old summer. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-08-18_learning-lambda-part-6/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:51:43 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-08-18_learning-lambda-part-6/ This is Part 6 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-08-11_interview-with-the-oreilly-programming-podcast/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:49:39 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-08-11_interview-with-the-oreilly-programming-podcast/ Mike spoke with Jeff Bleiel at the O’Reilly Programming Podcast. Thorny questions that came up included comparing Microservices with Serverless, and a discussion of why we don’t consider Container technology to be Serverless. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-07-24_revisiting-aws-lambda-runtime-performance/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:32:40 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-07-24_revisiting-aws-lambda-runtime-performance/ Back in February, I wrote an article titled “The Occasional Chaos of AWS Lambda Runtime Performance”. The performance benchmark results in that article showed that while worst-case performance was indeed proportional to a Lambda’s memory configure, actual performance could be much better than that worst case. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-07-17_podcast-interview-with-pythian/ Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:07:44 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-07-17_podcast-interview-with-pythian/ Mike talked with Chris Presley at Pythian on their Datascape Podcast. Chris has a data focus, and it was interesting to chat about Serverless with that in mind. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-07-12_announcing-serverless-workshops/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:11:47 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-07-12_announcing-serverless-workshops/ Symphonia is pleased to announce an addition to our suite of services— private Serverless workshops, carefully designed to give your team the Serverless skills and knowledge they need to accelerate business value delivery for you and your customers. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-28_defining-serverless-part-5/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 23:21:31 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-28_defining-serverless-part-5/ This is the final part of a series defining Serverless Services in terms of five common traits, which John Chapin and I introduced in our free ebook from O’Reilly — What is Serverless? https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-28_john-chapin-featured-on-the-cognicast/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:00:00 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-28_john-chapin-featured-on-the-cognicast/ Symphonia’s John Chapin was interviewed by Stuart Sierra on Episode 127 of the Cognicast podcast, talking about world travel, jazz music, and all things Serverless! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-27_defining-serverless-part-4/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:50:53 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-27_defining-serverless-part-4/ This is Part 4 of a series defining Serverless Services in terms of five common traits, which John Chapin and I introduced in our free ebook from O’Reilly — What is Serverless? https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-26_defining-serverless-part-3/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:36:24 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-26_defining-serverless-part-3/ This is Part 3 of a series defining Serverless Services in terms of five common traits, which John Chapin and I introduced in our free ebook from O’Reilly — What is Serverless? https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-26_defining-serverless-part-2/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:57:21 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-26_defining-serverless-part-2/ This is Part 2 of a series defining Serverless Services in terms of five common traits, which John Chapin and I introduced in our free ebook from O’Reilly — What is Serverless? https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-22_defining-serverless-part-1/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:49:00 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-22_defining-serverless-part-1/ In case you’re new to my articles: Serverless Architecture is a new approach to building systems in the cloud. It incorporates Backends-as-a-Service (BaaS) — vendor-hosted, highly scalable, data and logic components to handle our needs for databases, messaging platforms, user management, and more. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-14_what-is-serverless/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:00:35 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-14_what-is-serverless/ Our mission at Symphonia is to bring the benefits of Serverless computing to our clients, and the industry. But what is Serverless? In this free e-book that we’ve produced in collaboration with O’Reilly, we explain what Serverless means and what its significant benefits are. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-14_podcast-interview-with-stelligent/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:06:04 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-06-14_podcast-interview-with-stelligent/ Mike and John chatted with our friends at Stelligent — Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich as part of their DevOps in AWS Radio podcast series. We covered a lot in this conversation! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-04-09_my-keynote-on-serverless-from-oreilly-software-architecture-nyc/ Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:50:04 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-04-09_my-keynote-on-serverless-from-oreilly-software-architecture-nyc/ Last week I gave my second O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference keynote, giving an introduction to Serverless with some new thoughts that John Chapin and I have been mulling over the last few months, including unifying themes across various Serverless products. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-04-06_fearless-jvm-lambdas-clojurewest/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:39:50 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-04-06_fearless-jvm-lambdas-clojurewest/ John made the trek out to beautiful Portland, Oregon to speak about Fearless JVM Lambdas at the 2017 Clojure/west conference. The talk included an overview of Serverless, and a deep dive into using the Clojure programming language with AWS Lambda’s JVM runtime. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-31_mike-interviewed-on-software-engineering-daily-aug-23-2016/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:27:57 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-31_mike-interviewed-on-software-engineering-daily-aug-23-2016/ Mike spoke to Jeff Meyerson at the Software Engineering Daily podcast about all things Serverless. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/08/23/serverless-architecture-with-mike-roberts/ https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-31_speaking-at-nyc-java-sig-feb-2-2017/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:03:50 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-31_speaking-at-nyc-java-sig-feb-2-2017/ Mike and John spoke at the New York Java SIG, giving an introduction to Serverless, and then some detail using Java and AWS Lambda. See their talks below! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-30_speaking-at-clojurewest/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:00:00 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-30_speaking-at-clojurewest/ John made the trek out to beautiful Portland, Oregon to speak about Fearless JVM Lambdas at the 2017 Clojure/west conference. The talk included an overview of Serverless, and a deep dive into using the Clojure programming language with AWS Lambda’s JVM runtime. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-26_symphonias-spring-tour/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:50:49 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-26_symphonias-spring-tour/ Spring — a time of flowers blooming, days lengthening, temperatures warming, and, for the first time, a conference speaking tour by your friends at Symphonia! https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-21_learning-lambda-part-5/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:32:37 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-21_learning-lambda-part-5/ Command Line Tools This is Part 5 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-14_learning-lambda-part-4/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:31:48 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-03-14_learning-lambda-part-4/ Input, Output, Context This is Part 4 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-02-24_occasional-chaos-of-aws-lambda-runtime-performance/ Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:17:01 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-02-24_occasional-chaos-of-aws-lambda-runtime-performance/ In non-Serverless systems, we can use the baseline performance of a system to make predictions about how that system will behave in the future. Absent changes to the underlying infrastructure and external dependencies, that baseline performance doesn’t change quickly, or drastically. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-02-16_learning-lambda-part-3/ Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:04:39 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-02-16_learning-lambda-part-3/ Starting to explore This is Part 3 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-27_learning-lambda-part-2/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:30:29 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-27_learning-lambda-part-2/ The Simplest Lambda This is Part 2 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-24_danger-in-the-details-scalable-cloudwatch-metrics-for-aws-lambda/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:11:14 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-24_danger-in-the-details-scalable-cloudwatch-metrics-for-aws-lambda/ This is the second article in a series on AWS Lambda monitoring from Symphonia, published on The Symphonium. Symphonia is a Serverless and Cloud Technology consultancy based in NYC. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-20_serverless-architectures/ Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:20:28 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-20_serverless-architectures/ Last summer I wrote a multi-installment article on Serverless Architectures. Those that follow me online will know that I’ve become even more excited about this topic since then to the point of starting a business in this area with my good friend John Chapin. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-19_learning-lambda-part-1/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:00:57 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-19_learning-lambda-part-1/ This is Part 1 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-17_love-letter-to-lambda-logging/ Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:28:04 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-17_love-letter-to-lambda-logging/ This is the first article in a series on AWS Lambda monitoring from Symphonia, published on The Symphonium. Symphonia is a Serverless and Cloud Technology consultancy based in NYC. https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-03_introducing-symphonia/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:48:48 +0000 https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2017-01-03_introducing-symphonia/ Hi! We’re John Chapin and Mike Roberts, and together we are Symphonia. Serverless is a new cloud computing approach to architecting and building applications. It enables faster delivery of business value, reduced operational cost and complexity, together with virtually limitless and effortless scaling.