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AWS Lambda SnapStart - What, and Why

At reInvent 2022 AWS announced “SnapStart” - a new Lambda capability to drastically improve cold starts when using Lambda with Java, or other JVM languages.

Starting with CDK part 2: Deploying a Lambda Application

Welcome to Part 2 of “Starting with CDK” . In Part 1 I helped you prepare your environments for CDK, as well as deploy and examine your first CDK application.

Starting with CDK part 1: Preparations, and Bare-Bones

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a tool you can use to deploy applications and infrastructure to AWS. From one of my earlier articles:

Java and AWS Lambda - Best of frenemies?

This is a cross-post from the Cockroach Labs blog. Cockroach Labs have been kind enough to sponsor our book Programming AWS Lambda, which you can download for free from the Cockroach Labs website.

MonoLambdas, Nano Functions, and Goldilocks

Simple, single-responsiblity, AWS Lambda applications have one Lambda function and one event source. You might use API Gateway to provide a simple HTTP-callable interface to a Lambda function.

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.

AWS Glue 2.0 - Realizing the Benefit of Managed Services

Serverless isn’t just Lambda Here at Symphonia, we’re proponents of all things Serverless. This means that in addition to technologies like AWS Lambda, we make heavy use of managed backends-as-a-service that address concerns like scaling, resource allocation, and process management, while giving us and our clients granular billing with minimal fixed costs.

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”!

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!

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.