I Self-Published A 300-Page Book. So Can You! My experience of writing and publishing “Speak Effectively At Conferences”!

🆕 ✍ I Self-Published A 300-Page Book. So Can You!

New blog about what went on behind the scenes of writing #TheSpeakerBook!

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The Speaker Book Is Here! Why Should You Read It? If you think speaking at a conference is just about being on a stage and presenting, think again!

🆕✍ "The Speaker Book Is Here! Why Should You Read It?"

A brief about the book, its contents, and early reader feedback.

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#TheSpeakerBook #speaking #talks #speaker #conferences #publicspeaking

✨ #TheSpeakerBook is now available on #Amazon✨

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Earlier this week, I received the author's proofread copy, and it looks fantastic! (I know I am biased 😀)

📔Happy reading! 🌞Happy weekend, everyone!

#Books #Conferences #Speaking #speaker #presentation #aws #serverless

✨Announcing the release of the PDF version of #TheSpeakerBook✨

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➡️ The EPUB version will be available in a few days on Leanpub.

➡️ The #Amazon #Kindle will be available next week, followed by the paperback version.

#Speaking #talks #speaker #aws #serverless #conferences

Want to speak with confidence - both on conference stages and on Zoom? I just reviewed @sheenbrisals.bsky.social’s Speak Effectively At Conferences and it's full of honest, practical advice & real‑world stories. Link in comments #PublicSpeaking #SpeakingSkills #AmWriting

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ServerlessDays Stockholm logo with the year 2025.

I wonder if anyone would show up if this were to happen this fall. I wonder if we'd get any speakers to join. I wonder if we'd get any sponsors. I wonder...

Depends on what you've already read and where you want to start. Microservices, Architect Elevator, Learning DDD, Architecture hard parts, Evolutionary architecture... and the list goes on.

The latest ones I read include Enabling Mcs, System thinking, Communication patterns, etc.

Happy to see our book, Serverless Development on AWS, on Humble Bundle's list of Head First Programming and Patterns books from @oreilly.bsky.social ✨

It also includes a few of my favorite books as well!

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Balancing Coupling in Software Design • Vlad Khononov & Sheen Brisals • GOTO 2025 This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclubhttp://gotopia.tech/bookclubRead the full transcription of the interview here:https...

Dive into Balancing Coupling in Software Design with @vladikk.bsky.social & @sheenbrisals.bsky.social to tackle complexity in modern software!
Takeaways:
Coupling is key to managing complexity.
Modular design reduces cognitive load.

Truly Serverless WebSockets? 👏 - Off-by-none In this issue, AppSync Events bring us even closer to truly serverless WebSockets, Serverless Land Patterns land in your IDE, and S3 Tables try to compete with sliced bread.

Issue #320 of Off-by-none is out! In this issue, AppSync Events bring us even closer to truly #serverless WebSockets, Serverless Land Patterns land in your IDE, and S3 Tables try to compete with sliced bread. #offbynone offbynone.io/issues/320/

Super excited to share the stage with my friend @theburningmonk.com at #AWSSummit Amsterdam! 🎉 Yan is a serverless genius, and I always learn so much from him. Get ready for some serious #serverless insights in our session!

See you there on April 16!

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Love being at the AWS Serverless Meetup in London. Here is part of the gathering, and about 30% are 1st time attendees! Plenty of new interest in Serverless. @ryancormack.bsky.social Sheen Brisals and @ryancormack.bsky.social are speaking tonight, so ppl get to learn from the gurus!

Issue #319 of Off-by-none is out! In this issue, DeepSeek goes #serverless on Bedrock, multi-agent collaboration is now GA, and AWS enhances the serverless developer experience in VS Code. #offbynone offbynone.io/issues/319/

Looking forward to being in Bengaluru for the Agile India 2025 conference later this month!

@agileindia.bsky.social #AWS #Serverless #QA #cloud #Bengaluru #Bangalore

☁️ Serverless London March 2025 (In Person), Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup Join us on March 12th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person! \*\*\* **🎫 Tickets** No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there

✨ Serverless London Meetup is on Wednesday, 12th March

📅 6:30 PM at Amazon London Holborn Office: 60 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2FD

🗣️ Ben Ellerby and I are speaking that evening.

This is an in-person event, and details are on the meetup page.

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#AWS #Serverless

Why is your product Open Source? Open source business models are hard. A question I often get it why is it even open source? Here are some of my thoughts on that, and reasons why

Almost a year ago I left AWS to bootstrap my open source project.

I get asked why create an open source project? Why not close source and get folks to pay....

I want to share my journey with others, so here is my first post.

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✨Yesterday's ServerlessDays Manchester was a blast!🚀

💠Full house of a packed audience!
💠Fantastic venue with amazing views!
💠Excellent talks!
💠Great hospitality!
💠Generous and supportive sponsors!
💠A passionate organizing committee!

@manserverless.bsky.social

#AWS #Serverless #Azure #GCP #cloud

Honoured to have the incredible @sheenbrisals.bsky.social closing things out today.

Complexity is everywhere; is it time to embrace that complexity?

#SDM2025

AWS Serverless hands on part 2/2 At the beginning, I would like to emphasize that this is the second part of our journey. Please read...

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Being able to look at example designs and github repos really helps with learning. You can take code and deploy as is or start modifying parts to see the impacts. Using managed and serverless components on AWS allows you to build interesting and scalable apps quickly.(1/3)

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Introducing EventCatalog Directory - EventCatalog EventCatalog Directory is a new way to find users and teams using EventCatalog.

User directory now live in EventCatalog.

This new feature allows you to quickly find users or teams that own services or messages in your your organization with new search/filter capabilities.

Demo and blog 👇

Hope it helps!

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Complexity is part of life and technology, it is often necessary. Acknowledge, understand, and manage it. Learn more with @sheenbrisals.bsky.social at #AgileIndia: confengine.com/conferences/...

Thank you, Chris.

Speak Effectively At Conferences Are you afraid of speaking at conferences? Learn the insights to overcome your fears and conquer the stages with confidence!

I can’t wait to grab a copy of @sheenbrisals.bsky.social book when it’s released. Stepping out of your comfort zone and presenting in public is a valuable skill that makes it easier to communicate ideas, share concepts, and pass on knowledge. leanpub.com/TheSpeakerBook

#TheSpeakerBook Update: 3 New chapters will be released next week, 28th January.

Part3: Chapter 8 - Submitting Talks to Conferences (the CFP process)
Part 5: Chapter 17 - Being Gracious and Grateful (as a speaker)
Part 5: Chapter 18 - The Audience Feedback Process

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#21 Productivity 🧠 This week, our expert is AWS Community Builder Zied Ben Tahar, our spotlight falls on AWS Chief Evangelist (EMEA) Danilo Poccia, we look at the latest AWS service releases, blog posts, news & more!

⭐ Issue 21 of the #Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out now! ⭐

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This week, our serverless expert is #AWS Community Builder @ziedbentahar.bsky.social, and our spotlight falls on @danilop.bsky.social 👏

Please share & subscribe to the newsletter!🔔

When @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is down, the entire writing universe comes to a halt.😅

I know the significance of 20th February! 😀

All the planned 20 chapters in their unedited raw form must become available. In fact, all are in the early draft version, and I am currently getting them ready for review and early release one at a time. So, we can be hopeful.

Thank you so much, Paul, for your support.

✨The Early Release version of #TheSpeakerBook✨

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🗓️ Tuesday, 21st January, 2025

📕6 Chapters (more to follow soon after)

🆓Download a FREE sample chapter now!

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