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@LeeJamesGilmore
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AWS Serverless Hero empowering others through knowledge (views and tweets are my own) #ddd #serverless #aws #AI #stoicism
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I'm massively honoured today to have been recognised as an AWS Serverless Hero by
@awscloud
alongside other new heroes who I truly admire in the industry!
These people are amazing at what they do and how they support their communities! Congratulations all! 🎊
#serverless
#AWS
Introducing the newest
#AWS
Heroes! ☁️🫶
These exceptional individuals make remarkable contributions that empower the
#AWSCommunity
.
@fayecloudguru
@ilan_g
,
@sinjaehyeon8
,
@jimmydahlqvist
@LeeJamesGilmore
@maciejwalkowiak
@minorun365
. 👏
🔗
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When architects worry about vendor lock-in with
#serverless
and don’t make the most of their cloud services.
Just because you use Terraform it doesn’t mean you can lift and shift your existing workloads to another provider without mass changes 🙊
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Serverless Clean Architecture & Code with Domain-Driven Design — Part 2 🚀
#serverless
#AWS
#AWSCommunity
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Serverless Architecture Layers & DDD (Part 4) — The Data Layer
"Talking through the 5 Serverless Architecture Layers in detail, this time covering the Data Layer in part 4."
#Serverless
#AWS
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When writing/building for the
#aws
#Serverless
community: what people don’t see. 👇🏽
4am mornings. Building in airport lounges. Writing in hotel lobby’s. Late nights. Purely in my own time.
#awscommunitybuilders
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If you are an aspiring
#aws
#Serverless
architect I would encourage you to add numbers to you diagrams to document flows (annotated what those numbers mean) Good example:
The rest of your teams will thank you for it 🙏
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Using architectural decision records to streamline technical decision-making for a software development project 🚀
#Serverless
#AWS
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Well that only leaves the Speciality Certs now! 🚀 Great to pass the DevOps Engineer Professional certification.. 6/11 👌
Tough exam and 3 hours long 😅 Looking forward to seeing my score on this one.
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Clean Serverless Code now has 33 stars! 🌟🌟
If you want to see an example of clean hexagonal architecture for
#serverless
workloads over a 2 part series using
#TypeScript
and the
#AWS
CDK check it out here
👨💻Github:
📕Article:
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Friends don’t let friends emulate the cloud locally ✔️
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Repeat after me:
Serverless !== Lambda functions.
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Is there anything less productive, frustrating, and more time consuming than this? 😅 Just work on the cloud! 💪🏼
#Serverless
#aws
#serverlessmemes
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Serverless AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns Part 4
✔️ We add AWS L3 CDK constructs.
✔️ We add logging, metrics and tracing with the Lambda Powertools package
✔️ We add progressive deployments with AWS Lambda.
✔️We add Feature Flags
#serverless
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Serverless AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns — Part 3
✔️ We add a basic React client.
✔️ We add AWS CloudWatch Synthetics.
✔️ We cover acceptance tests using Cypress.
✔️ We cover generating dynamic configuration.
#Serverless
#AWS
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Honoured to share I’m now the
Global Head of Technology & Architecture @ CEF/CES 💜
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Go checkout my new
#Serverless
Patterns & Solutions registry here to search through 74 detailed articles and GitHub repos 💜
Examples in TypeScript, CDK, SAM and the Serverless Framework (but will grow over the coming year) 🚀
Please share 💜
View here:
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Interesting musings from the Thoughtworks group on
#serverless
and
#lambda
in their latest Tech Radar 📕
What are your thoughts? 🤔
👈
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If you are a
#serverless
fan my github page has many code repos covering most use cases and patterns, using TypeScript and the AWS CDK/Serverless Framework, all of which have a detailed article to go with them 👇🏽
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Shoutout to all the
#serverless
engineers using console.log for debugging 🤜🤛
.
.
.
console.log(“code got here!”);
..
console.log(“code got further!”);
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#awswishlist
- with the AWS CDK can we pretty please have some sexy looking autogenerated IaC diagrams as standard built in - currently I use cdk-dia with TypeDoc each time I spin up a repo to produce docs with embedded diagrams 👨💻
(also a flag for esBuild on cdk init please) ⛳️
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“Big design up front is dumb. Doing no design up front is even dumber.” - Agile meets architecture 💜
Great talk by Simon Brown where he verbalises my own exact thoughts on software design and agile.
Agile doesn’t mean zero upfront design 🤦♀️
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Interviewed somebody this week who said they didn’t like Serverless, it doesn’t scale, and it causes vendor lock-in..
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Having worked in many engineering roles for 25 years at different levels, I’ve never once needed to traverse a binary tree.
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console.log(“code got here”);
Still the easiest and fool proof way to debug
#serverless
#lambda
functions in 2022 😂
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Serverless AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns — Part 2
✔️ We add tools such as ESLint, Husky & Prettier
✔️ We cover SAST tooling with cdk-nag
✔️ We cover int & load testing with Postman/Newman and Artillery
✔️ We seed database config
#serverless
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My eldest just said:
“Daddy I want to be an architect when I’m older. But not like you, I mean a ‘proper’ architect” 😅💜
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Amazon RDS simplifies connectivity between an RDS or Aurora database and AWS Lambda
#Serverless
#AWS
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2023 in numbers 💜
✨ 1st Breakout session at AWS re:Invent
🎖️1 promotion to Global Head of Technology & Architecture
✍🏻 25 detailed Serverless articles written
🎤 2 public talks given
🎙️ 2 Podcast episodes recorded
📹 3 YouTube videos created
💻 22 full example AWS code repos
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Enterprise Amazon EventBridge Schema Validation
"Adding Amazon EventBridge event schema validation using OpenAPI 3.0 data types, patterns (regexes), min and max values etc, with code examples using TypeScript and the AWS CDK"
#Serverless
#AWS
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Nice arrival back home in the UK whilst I’m in Dallas Texas 🤠 Very thankful to be part of an amazing
#Serverless
community through the
#AWSCommunityBuilders
programme
@jasondunn
🔥
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When should we use full clean architecture with
#Serverless
?
This pattern is designed to handle complex business logic, focusing on intricate state transitions and safeguarding critical business rules, rather than just mainly CRUD interfaces. 💜
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Meeting so many amazing
#serverless
friends at one party tonight in Vegas was 🔥🔥🔥 (too many to tag!)
Thank you for the invite
@momentohq
@AllenHeltonDev
and
@ksshams
💜
#BelieveInServerless
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Fantastic to wake up this morning to an email from
@jasondunn
saying I am now an AWS Community Builder in the
#serverless
category 🚀
I am excited to see how I can further help the Serverless community on
#awscloud
#AWScommunity
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Serverless Architecture Layers & DDD (Part 3) — The Domain Layer
"Talking through the 5 Serverless Architecture Layers in detail, this time covering the Domain Layer in part 3."
#Serverless
#AWS
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If your interested in
#Serverless
on
#aws
go checkout 👇🏽
where I cover most use cases, patterns and services, along with supporting free code repos written in
#TypeScript
and the AWS CDK / Serverless Framework 👨🏽💻 (feel free to retweet for others)
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Serverless OpenAPI & Amazon API Gateway with the AWS CDK — Part 1
"How we can utilise the “OpenAPI first approach” alongside Amazon API Gateway in our AWS CDK TypeScript solutions."
#serverless
#aws
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‘Almost’ 1K followers on Medium 💙
might seem tiny compared to others, but blessed that some people enjoy my content 🙌🏽
#serverless
#aws
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Being able to congratulate an amazing colleague and present his golden
#aws
jacket for passing all certs was the best part of my day! 💜 Amazing Dan well done!
(Note: my first slide was a joke behind us 😅)
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AWS have done a great article here based on the AI as a Platform (AIaaP) approach I talked about a few month back - and what we built at City 👇🏽
My article:
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As the AWS CDK with Serverless is the norm for me now (my go to), going back to YML or HCL is like going back to the stone ages IMO ....
#serverless
#aws
#cdk
#typescript
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“No one knows what they're doing. Nobody. Not even the ones with degrees, and big job titles, and more things than you. Not even the people on your vision board.
Everyone is just trying loudly, failing loudly, and trying again. And so should you.”
Hat tip
@FarrahC32
💜
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Serverless Domain Driven Design
Breaking down DDD concepts one at a time with real world examples into a tangible serverless equivalent architecture.
#Serverless
#AWSCommunity
#aws
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Welcome to the
#Serverless
community on
#AWS
for anyone new! 👋
I still find it unreal how supportive, fun and collaborative it is! 🚀
Dive in on Twitter, LinkedIn, AWS Community Builders Programme and more (I'm sure we could add further places to get started below 👇)
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Amazon SQS announces increased throughput quota for FIFO High Throughput (HT) mode to up to 6,000 Transactions Per Second (TPS)
#Serverless
#aws
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Almost 1 million impressions on LinkedIn in the past 365 days with technical
#Serverless
and
#AWS
content - it shows that consistency pays off for sure..
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Serverless OpenAPI & Amazon API Gateway with the AWS CDK — Part 2
"How we can utilise the “OpenAPI code first approach” alongside Amazon API Gateway in our AWS CDK TypeScript solutions."
#Serverless
#AWS
#TypeScript
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Serverless GraphQL API Federation
An example of using AWS AppSync to federate multiple private Amazon API Gateways; with visuals and code repository example written in TypeScript and the AWS CDK. All inline with SAL Architecture.
#Serverless
#aws
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Serverless Architecture Layers & DDD (Part 1) — The Experience Layer
"Talking through the 5 Serverless Architecture Layers in detail, starting with the Experience Layer in Part 1."
#Serverless
#AWSCommunity
#AWS
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𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵
An opinionated example of a lightweight evolutionary ‘clean code’ Lambda function architecture, with code examples written in the AWS CDK and TypeScript.
#Serverless
#AWS
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Name a video game you have played for more than 100 hours with a gif.
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Missing from the
#aws
console - a popup that says:
“You’re looking for that lambda in the wrong region dumbass” 🙈😆💜
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Serverless AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns — Part 1
An opinionated discussion around how to set up, structure, and deploy your AWS CDK Serverless apps using CDK Pipelines in line with AWS best practice.
#Serverless
#DevOps
#aws
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Serverless Event Gateway Pattern
Example of enabling legacy systems and 3rd parties to publish and consume events to/from your Amazon EventBridge central event bus; with supporting code repository written in TypeScript and the AWS CDK.
#Serverless
#AWS
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Do we need a
#serverless
manifesto?
As a community, where can we find the ‘defacto’ single agreed definition of what Serverless is (and is not)?
#aws
#awscommunity
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Amazing experience today doing my first breakout session at
#awsreinvent2023
in Las Vegas 💜
#Thankful
#Blessed
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For any aspiring cloud architects/engineers just starting their journey:
We are ‘all’ still learning, that learning never stops, and none of us could possibly know everything about the cloud (it changes quick).
My honest suggestion:
Build, build, build and enjoy the journey!
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MVP of my new website is out 💜
Expect of the coming weeks:
✅ Newsletter
✅ Blogs integrated
✅ Podcast details
#serverless
#aws
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Lambdalith’s and Function URLs — A Microservice Match Made In Heaven 💜
"We cover the awesome possibilities when combining Lambdalith’s with Lambda function URLs"
#Serverless
#AWS
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How I feel using the AWS CDK vs Terraform / AWS SAM / Serverless Framework
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AWS CDK dos and don'ts with Matthew Bonig
Really enjoyed this chat
@mattbonig
@theburningmonk
👏🏼
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Who’s going to Re:Invent this year?
I am! And I’ll also be doing a talk there too 💜
Sooo looking forward to meeting people in real life that I’ve chatted to for years on this platform! 💜
Who wants to grab a coffee?
#serverless
#aws
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Space X are changing software on their rockets 43 minutes before the rocket launches.
If your pipeline passes then it’s good for production - invest in your pipelines from day 1 🚀
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I find it astonishing that lots of
#serverless
engineers I come across these days don’t know the basics of things like:
🟣 REST standards
🟣 OAuth 2.0 flows
🟣 OpenAPI
🟣 Clean Code
🟣 JSON Schema
🟣 Testing (Unit/E2E/Int)
Anybody else finding this in 2023?
Am I just old? 😅
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Life is short.
You get 4,000 weeks if you're lucky.
Book that flight.
Apply for that job.
Start that business.
Stop putting limits on yourself 💜
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One thing that is worse than 'vendor lock-in' is 'consultancy lock-in', through their constant pushing of overly complex open source products that need to be fed and watered (typically ran on K8s or EC2), to clients that don't know better until it is too late.
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For anybody starting out in tech, my hot take.
Focus on kindness, emotional intelligence, empathy, and building in public.
It will take you far 💜
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𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐬 — 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 2 🚀
How to use custom domain names with private APIs on AWS, allowing internal domain services to communicate without traversing the public internet.
#serverless
#awscommunitybuilders
#awscloud
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Comprehensive Testing of Serverless Solutions: Exploring Integration, E2E, and Unit Testing with AWS CDK and TypeScript (Part 1)
#serverless
#aws
#typescript
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Serverless Clean Architecture & Code with Domain-Driven Design 🚀
Using clean code and architectures in our
#Serverless
solutions to ensure clean separation of code and infrastructure; with examples written in the AWS CDK and TypeScript.
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AWS CodePipeline now supports GitLab
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Keeping this one for my 11 hour flight coming up🛩️📚
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Details 👇 & you can learn more live!
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Storage-First Serverless Solutions 🚀
A real World example of using storage-first serverless solutions for increased resilience, with example code using TypeScript and the AWS CDK.
#Serverless
#awsbuilders
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I’ve seen a lot of recent posts/tweets on the AWS CDK being ‘too complex’ compared to SAM/SF..and a lot of bad press..
The CDK is as simple or complex as you make it.
I’ve also seen shockingly complex and verbose YML too with high cognitive load.
Both are valid options for IaC
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