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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”!

Analyzing Cold Start latency of AWS Lambda

Deep dive into cold starts, with some surprises related to regions, volatility, and ‘cool’ starts

Serverless Chats Podcast: Programming AWS Lambda

Chatting with Jeremy Daly. We get into testing; why & how to avoid building “lambdaliths”; cold starts; architecture; and more.

Debugging AWS Lambda functions with Thundra

Debug cloud-deployed Lambda functions from your IDE

Our book with O'Reilly - "Programming AWS Lambda"

All of our knowledge of running AWS Lambda with Java, wrapped up into 250 pages!

CodePipeline 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.

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!

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.

Did you get your re:Invent 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 .

What are our re:Invent 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.

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.

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.