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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.

My keynote on Serverless from O'Reilly 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.

Fearless JVM Lambdas @ Clojure/west

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.

Symphonia's 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!

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.

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.

The 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.

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.

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.

The 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.

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.

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.