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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.