Chris Munns
@chrismunns
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Helping startups build better in the cloud. Dada x2. Husband. New Yorker hiding in the burbs for a bit. Opinions are my own.
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Unpopular opinion: Less live streaming, more long form writing. Please.
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✅ After a bit more than 4.5 years, tomorrow will be my last day leading Developer Advocacy for
#serverless
at
@awscloud
. I'll be staying at AWS and taking on a new role starting next week. 🧵1/
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🆕 It's Day 1 for me again at
@awscloud
. I'm starting today as Tech Lead/Advisor for the Startup Solution Architecture team, focused on the Americas. The title is squishy, but essentially im on point for tough customer technical challenges and helping peers doing the same 1/
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Coming up on the 4 year anniversary of the preview announcement of
#AWSLambda
here at
@awscloud
and put together this small snapshot of what the team has delivered over the past 4 years. tl;dr: its a lot.
#serverless
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I think one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves in IT/tech is that we need to prepare for "scale" of traffic. Generally speaking 99% of apps never break 1000 rps. Even with that you can likely serve millions of active users in a month. 1/
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🎉 Becoming a Principal at
@awscloud
was one of my proudest career moments. Being able to help promote
@edjgeek
and
@jbesw
to Principal recently maybe slightly beats it. Congrats gents! You have done incredible things for the world of
#serverless
! Proud to have you as peers! 🎉
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Security is incredibly important to us at
@awscloud
and the
#serverless
team. I am excited to share a newly published doc that should help explain in depth how security is handled for
#awsLambda
- Security Overview of AWS Lambda -
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Haters gonna hate. I see a full app architecture where i don’t manage a single server or OS or container, have metrics/monitoring/loggging built in, and with deny by default/fine grained security throughout. Oh and it costs me pennies when not in use and scales automatically. 👍🏻
Crying at this typical Serverless infrastructure. wtf happened to the "simple" functions-as-a-service idea?
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can't make this up. An accident on Route 53... a highway.. not
@awscloud
Route53, has caused an internet outage in NJ...
Alert: A car accident on Route 53 caused a loss of services for some Optimum customers in the Parsippany, NJ area. Our crews are working to restore service as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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We're launching support for 3 new runtime versions today in
#awsLambda
: Java 11, Node.js 12.x, and Python 3.8! Happy Hacking!!
#serverless
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Duration: 10 YrsBilled Duration: 10 yrs
Memory Size: 128 MBMax Memory Used: 10 GB
@awscloud
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Pretty excited to see Lambda Function URLs ship! (I got to help name this one): It's a long long time coming, with years of "diving deep" into where this fits in the broader picture of Lambda. I think ppl will love it.
#serverless
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If you’re wondering this is what a real life VPC looks like. Including a NAT-GW and S3 private endpoint:
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We recently shaved 1/3 off the p99 on the
#awsLambda
service’s overhead latency (aka invoking your functions will start sooner). Part of our continuous focus on operational excellence and one of the many reasons for going
#serverless
, your service keeps getting better
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sadly, the
#serverless
DA team at AWS is essentially disbanded. a few years ago I was given an opportunity to build a new role and a new team, in what became one of hottest trends in tech. I was fortunate enough to hire incredibly smart and driven people who delivered tons 1/
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Ya'll been waiting eagerly for this one! Access an Aurora Serverless database via HTTPS API: still in beta, but will change the way you think about
#awsLambda
and relational databases!
#serverless
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Today we're quietly rolling out a new site that rolls up content for
#serverless
technology. In the future we are looking to bring in community contributions, stories from around the industry, and more ways to help you learn how to build. Check it out!
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A few weeks back while I was doing yard work an
@amazon
delivery came and I offered the driver some water saying I too worked at Amazon, in cloud. He thanked me and gave me a fist bump and said “one team brother”. Today my heart aches for peers who died in the storms out west💔
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Came off private to say:
1. rolling your own auth (even with a framework) is for clowns
2. k8s remains a tool for platform teams with dedicated HC
3. you don't need NoSQL, mysql will take you far
4. everything belongs in/attached to a VPC
5. managing OSes is for old neckbeards
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@boristane
Congrats! You successfully founded, funded, found market fit, and had an incredible exit, with Lambda. You scaled rapidly and with little operational overhead. That’s a Lambda win.
Now you’ve got economies of scale challenges. Jump ahead and just squeeze every raw cycle from EC2
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Second big announcement of the day is the preview of Amazon RDS Proxy. This is going to help solve the connection pooling issues with
#awsLambda
and in general make
#serverless
+ relational work well: "Using Amazon RDS Proxy with AWS Lambda" via
@georgemao
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Coming soon to a near you:
#Serverless
Patterns library. Examples of basic serverless patterns but with a TON of detail. And sample code. And, real soon, community contributions..
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In over 500 interviews at
@awscloud
over 8 years, many of them assessing technical bar of the candidate, I don’t think I once asked what outside of work projects someone had. Fuck that. You do you in your free time.
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I am literally sitting in a room with the rest of the Lambda PM team planning 2019. What do YOU want us to build?
#serverless
#awslambda
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Some of you have waited a *long* time for this one! Now
#AWSlambda
functions can run for up to 15 minutes!!
#serverless
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🎉Announcing the new Serverless Patterns Collection on
Find not just what patterns exist, but AWS SAM templates, function code, test payloads, and instructions to deploy and test.
#serverless
#awsLambda
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Announcing WebSocket APIs in Amazon API Gateway
#amazonapigateway
#serverless
#websockets
via
@dgomesbr
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New VPC improvements for Lambda are 100% live in 3 regions: US East (Ohio), EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) - more soon! - Announcing improved VPC networking for AWS Lambda functions
#serverless
#awsLambda
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I honestly can’t wait for the day that I can hang my hat up and quit tech.
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🐿CORS Support
🐿Stage Method settings
🐿Regional Endpoints
🐿Binary Media Types
🐿Per Function Concurrency in Lambda
🐿API Gateway resource refs
🐿Simpletable names and tags
All in this MASSIVE release for AWS SAM:
#serverless
#awslambda
#apigateway
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🚨IMPORTANT🚨 - Upcoming updates to the AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda
@Edge
execution environment -
#serverless
#awslambda
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Cold Starts Be Gone: "New – Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions" - via
@danilop
#serverless
#awsLambda
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We know there's been a lot of
@awscloud
announcements the past 2 weeks, so we put together what matters to the
#serverless
community - ICYMI: Serverless pre:Invent 2019 some good prep reading and hacking for those of you attending
#reinvent
next week!!
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Faster, lower cost, and new features for your API serving needs: “Announcing HTTP APIs for Amazon API Gateway” - via
@georgemao
#serverless
#amazonapigateway
#reinvent
@awscloud
@AWSreInvent
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my reply to the HN post:
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First. HUGE thanks to the folks at
@datadoghq
for publishing this huge breakdown of what they see when it comes to
#awsLambda
in their "State of
#Serverless
" report. It's great work and as lead of serverless dev-advocacy I love love love it. 1/
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needless to say we are pretty damn excited about this one: Introducing Amazon API Gateway Private Endpoints via
@awscloud
#serverless
#amazonapigateway
#awslambda
🌉🌉🌉
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I had a hand in hiring Ali at
@awscloud
. if anyone wants to question her or other women in tech's technical bar, i'm happy to sufficiently dunk the fuck on you with how much of a clown you are.
imagine being told you're just biologically and socially not suited for the thing you've built your career around over and over and over again.
also, imagine that there's no real evidence for this, it's just debunked and outdated studies used to bolster pre-existing bias.
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Pretty sweet blog post highlighting an interesting way to overcome common issues with REST APIs: "From Poll to Push: Transform APIs using Amazon API Gateway REST APIs and WebSockets" -
#serverless
#websockets
#amazonapigateway
#awsstepfunctions
#awssar
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Dev Rel peers: Stop freaking out about conferences being canceled. Now is the time to buckle up and write some kick ass blog content, record some incredible tutorial videos, and engage your online communities in depth. Remember when you were an introvert? Yeah do that again.
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I get to put: “Officially approved to be hired by the CEO of AWS” on my LinkedIn somewhere. Matt was my bar raiser in 2011.
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hooo leee sheet. You can now deploy from AWS CodePipeline directly to Amazon S3. This makes me way too excited:
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At 50 developers a company should have at least 1 person dedicated to making sure those developers have as little friction to releasing code, understanding it's impact(observability), making changes to infra, etc. at 100 it should be 3. increasingly I find large orgs where its 0
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There's a lot of hot takes on last week's us-east-1 incident, but I ask that you treat them each with a grain of salt. no one outside AWS has the full picture of how things work or are built. I'm seeing several folks punching way above their weight class right now..
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This is going to be *incredibly* useful for
#serverless
developers: New - Analyze and debug distributed applications interactively using AWS X-Ray Analytics
#awsxray
#awslambda
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Announcing nested applications for AWS SAM and the AWS Serverless Application Repository
#serverless
#awssam
#awslambda
#awssar
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True
#serverless
solutions will never be multi-cloud or hybrid. They'll never be platform agnostic.
All the benefits come from deep integration and leveraging of the best of a cloud provider's stack and capabilities. You get a big part of the ROI by *not* doing a ton of work.
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Applying the Twelve-Factor App Methodology to Serverless Applications
#serverless
#twelve
-factor
#12factor
#awslambda
#amazonapigateway
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Super excited about last night’s launch of WAF support in Amazon API Gateway! APIs are increasingly everywhere people are building applications and protecting them at all layers is key! 🌉🔒⚔️
#serverless
#APIs
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Friendly reminder: Firecracker is super awesome, but you probably never need to touch it and shouldn't be too concerned by it. Runtime API is similar, you should try and use managed runtimes as much as possible and save yourself the work involved.
#serverless
#awsLambda
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I'm going to be looking to hire another
#serverless
Developer Advocate for my team. Looking for someone with previous DevRel experience and a good folio of technical content (blogs, videos, code, etc). Job post coming soon, but feel free to reach out to me.
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the long awaited and very awesome Part 2: "Protecting your API using Amazon API Gateway and AWS WAF — Part 2" via
@heitor_lessa
#serverless
#amazonapigateway
🔐🌉
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I’m dumbfounded at the threads and convos from people saying AWS hasn’t provided
#serverless
guidance(from the community itself). We’ve got hundreds of blog posts, dozens of talks, hundreds of pattern examples and various long form guides. Years of work. Where y’all been??
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New!! You can now mount Amazon EFS file systems to your AWS Lambda functions. Lots of use-cases for this and so I'm super excited to see it out there!
#serverless
#awsLambda
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As i've pivoted into my new role working with AWS's startup customers one thing that is really exciting is to see the natural adoption of event driven architectures for new companies at day 1. more to do here, but companies are recognizing the patterns early in their MVPs 1/
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Following the news around a certain large tech company's conference this week and their numerous k8s announcements furthers my view that
#serverless
is the future of things. 1/
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You want more new features? OK here ya go! "AWS Lambda supports Kinesis Data Streams Enhanced Fan-Out and HTTP/2 for faster streaming" -
#serverless
#awslambda
#amazonkinesis
#faster
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Dear VC/Investor Community. Welcome to my TED talk. Billions of your dollars are wasted each year in lost focus and product development time due to your funded startups building their own tools for deployments, observability, & orchestration. Tell them to STOP. Thanks for coming.
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"Ok guys, I installed k8s and am ready for
#serverless
functions!"
"oh ok, i'll install knative too"
"oh.. i need then a FaaS engine on top of it.."
"oh.. i still need an event source"
"ok, 9 servers, monitoring/metrics/logging of them.. oh OS patches.. ready for FaaS!"
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Regular share of this: I don't put Slack or any other business chat app on my phone. I have no desire to talk to ppl after hours. I will not respond after hours unless paged. If you page me it better be *hella* important.
Don't feel the need to be available 24/7.
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Hot off the Wordpresses: "Amazon API Gateway adds support for AWS WAF" -
#serverless
#amazonapigateway
🌉🔥🔒Another great post by
@heitor_lessa
!
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New update to AWS SAM CLI adding two new key features!!
🐿'sam logs' - easily find and tail logs from your serverless apps directly from the CLI!
🐿'sam local start-lambda' - run
#awsLambda
locally to more easily test non-API-GW functions
#serverless
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Seeing people make their titles "Global Head of..." when its a project they run with no headcount and zero budget like.. y'all. stop.
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Woah woah woah! I am super excited about the new dynamic parallelism launch for
#awsstepfunctions
! Probably the biggest feature request on the *map* is now out! "New – Step Functions Support for Dynamic Parallelism"
#serverless
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Things we know:
1. relational database workloads exist in many places
2. Building CRUD interfaces is kind of basic undifferentiated work
3. GraphQL is an awesome technology for frontend interaction
4. Amplify Framework/AppSync is killing it in 2019:
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My 5 yr old has regularly said that when you die you turn back into a baby. He’s said that someday he’ll take care of me when I’m a baby again. I asked him where he heard this or learned it and he said “I’ve always known it, it’s there behind all the other words..” 🤔🧐
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Wow, this is going to change the way you think about your database! Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available via
@awscloud
#serverless
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So Excited about this!! - "Now Available - AWS Serverless Application Repository" via
@awscloud
#serverless
#awslambda
#amazonapigateway
#awssam
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Working on a blog post that has this image in it. I think you're going to like what it has to say.
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Here's what I know about re:Invent 2020 so far that I can share:
1. No one is going to give me crap for going to bed at 11pm
2. It's gonna smell better
3. The
#Serverless
track is going to be the
#1
track on all metrics this year instead of just most of them.
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As a somewhat regular WFH-er here are my tips:
1. keep a schedule
2. Make your commute time you time
3. No tv or other distractions
4. Maintain the high ground
5. If you can get to the snipper rifle first, do it
6. grenades are your friend
7. mine more minerals
8. take a nap
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Introducing "build" in the AWS SAM CLI, which helps with packing application dependencies. Early days for what's possible here, but great to see this out! 🐿🐿🐿
#serverless
#awslambda
#awssam
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Mine and
@julian_wood
's highly demanded and heavily attended AWS re:Invent session SVS401 "Best Practices for Serverless Developers". You might need to watch it at half speed to catch it all.
#serverless
@AWSreInvent
@awscloud
@AWSEvents
#AWSreInvent
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About 100 new services or features in the past week from
@awscloud
and we’re still a week+ out from the big show.
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@Olivianuzzi
maybe the media can stop the 24/7 spinfest including when questioning said person
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Back at it for my 12th
#reinvent
(that’s all of em)
@AWSreInvent
@awscloud
@AWSEvents
@AWSstartups
catch me speaking Monday and Thursday and then at Tao for the Startup space throughout the week. Will be at VC Party and Startups at the Stadium again 💪🏻
#AWSreInvent
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Who doesn’t use IaC? Most ppl
Who doesn’t do CI or CD? Most ppl
Who doesn’t use nosql? Most ppl
And on and on.
The top 10-15% of tech does most “modern” things.
1% does it great.
The rest use cloud as a VM farm.
I was thinking the last days why would I need the new
@AWSCloudFormer
IaC Generator? Because IaC tools exist for 10+ years. So who does not create their infrastructure as code? But,
@spanierm42
pointed out that it is now easier to migrate from Terraform to CloudFormation.
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Filed under: "It's not even
#reInvent
yet" - "Python 3.7 runtime now available in AWS Lambda"
#serverless
#awslambda
#python
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Had an opportunity to use the new
@awscloud
VPC Reachability Analyzer announced back in November as part of a demo I'm working on. Pretty cool stuff to be honest. This is a purposefully broken VPC with missing routes and it hit the nail right on the head:
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HAHA. This GUY: "Listen, I mean, to be fair, I'm getting paid here either way. This guy, ::motions behind him:: this guy is fucked."
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We see lots of re-usable patterns in
#serverless
at
@awscloud
. Here's a series of really useful ones: "Enriching Event-Driven Architectures with AWS Event Fork Pipelines"
#amazonsns
#awsLambda
#awssam
#awsServerlessAppRepo
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In all the shit news and noise out there my saving grace this week is that I became an uncle yesterday! Can’t wait to meet my new little nephew. 👶🏻
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Shoutout to all my dudes who know their wife is made of tougher stuff than they are
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