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Symphonia's March 2023 newsletter

Serverless in 2023 - a chasm crossed?

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?

Books, Elevators, and Serverless Data Platforms

Symphonia's September 2020 newsletter, with some thoughts around hybrid architecture strategy

Serverless, Testing, and two Thinking Hats

A strategy for considering serverless and testing, which bucks the trend of other opinions in the industry.

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!

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.

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.