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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.

A 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 .

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.

Symphonia's 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.