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2024 in review Looking back on 2024!

Happy New Year! 🎇 Looking forward to a great 2025!

Reflecting on learning, books, and travel in 2024: emshea.com/post/2024-in...

AWS re:Invent 2024: My Serverless Takeaways AWS re:Invent 2024 exciting new services and features launched from a Serverless developer perspective.

Here’s a great recap of serverless launches from @ranthebuilder.cloud: www.ranthebuilder.cloud/post/aws-re-...

And we’ve got even more exciting things in the works for serverless in 2025! See you next year 🚀

I always leave #AWSre:Invent feeling energized! It’s such a great week getting the product launches and session content that we’ve been hard at work on all year in the hands of customers.

Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator | Amazon Web Services Today, we’re excited to release Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro), a new experimental open source project that simplifies and empowers the use of custom APIs and resources with Kubernetes. With kro, yo...

You can learn more about kro in the launch blog: aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...

And check out the code for Giedrius's demo here: github.com/awslabs/kro/...

However, this can prove challenging if the process to deploy serverless services is a lengthy ticketing process or through a disjointed toolset. We're seeing K8s platform teams give developers the best of both worlds by using ACK and the newly launched kro (Kubernetes resource operators)! 🐦‍⬛

Christina Andonov, Giedrius Praspaliauskas, and I spoke on how we see Kubernetes platform teams looking to give development teams access to the technology choice best suited to their workload and team, including serverless services.

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Kubernetes meets Serverless: Deploy EDAs with Kubernetes APIs (API308) YouTube video by AWS Events

Continuing with the theme of "right tool for the right job," my second re:Invent session this week was on deploying AWS serverless services with Kubernetes APIs! ☸️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmJG...

CloudWatch topology map showing S3 bucket resources in an AWS account

In the flurry of #reinvent announcements, you may have missed two awesome features I had the honor of working on with my team: CloudWatch’s
Explore related telemetry and AWS Resource Explorer Relationships 🧵

2/ Decision-making considerations like operational models, integrations, portability, usage patterns, and pricing
3/ Examples where customers have chosen containers, serverless functions, or both!

Are you making these decisions for your workloads? We would love to hear what you think!

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Containers or serverless functions: A path for cloud-native success (SVS209) YouTube video by AWS Events

The theme of both my #AWSre:Invent talks this year has been "right tool for the right job" 🛠️ Max and my talk on choosing containers or serverless functions takes you through:
1/ The fundamental differences in containers and serverless functions...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXZ...

Securely share AWS resources across VPC and account boundaries with PrivateLink, VPC Lattice, EventBridge, and Step Functions AWS introduces new methods to securely share resources across VPC and account boundaries using PrivateLink, VPC Lattice, EventBridge, and Step Functions, enabl...

This is one of the BIGGEST changes to AWS networking in years! You can now share single resources over PrivateLink AND access these resources with Step Functions and EventBridge. Really powerful.

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re:Invent breakout session

#AWSreinvent Day 1! 🚀 I got lucky with both of my breakout sessions on Monday, including this one on choosing containers or serverless functions (or both!)

Thanks for coming to the talk! 😀

EventBridge and Step Functions + private APIs! 🚀 Particularly excited about this one and what it opens up for building event driven flows between applications, no matter where they are!

I also appreciate that it renders my workaround blog post on this topic obsolete! 😄

Excited for this!!

Calling all Amazon ECS developers that are going to be at reInvent! Let me buy you breakfast! The ECS team is looking to have a sit down and learn about how you develop on ECS. We want to know what is working and what needs improvement. DM me if you are interested and I'll get you an invitation!

Biggest pre:Invent 2024 serverless announcements Learn to build production-ready serverless applications on AWS

Here are the biggest pre:Invent serverless announcements so far and my thoughts on them, why they are important, pitfalls to look out for, etc.

theburningmonk.com/2024/11/best...

Using JSONata In AWS Step Functions YouTube video by AWS Developers

If you didn't catch it before, AWS Step Functions now supports #JSONata for querying data in states. Learn more: youtu.be/kVWxJoO_zc8?...

Domain Driven Design (DDD) explained in 3 minutes This is a preview lesson from my upcoming workshop, "Production-Ready Serverless". If you liked this, then please check out the full curriculum at https://pr...

New video: Domain Driven Design (DDD) explained in 3 minutes

So often, a "bounded context" is (mis)used to mean a "service". I hope this video clears things up!

The serverless attendee’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2024 | Amazon Web Services AWS re:Invent 2024 offers an extensive selection of serverless and application integration content. AWS re:Invent Banner For detailed descriptions and schedule, visit the AWS re:Invent Session…

Want to discover #serverless and application integration things at #reInvent? See our handy guide. Sessions and where to find parties included!

AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available | Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda SnapStart boosts Python and .NET functions' startup times to sub-second levels, often with minimal code changes, enabling highly responsive and scalable serverless apps.

Wow, SnapStart is now available for Python and .Net functions.

Interesting they didn't do it for Node, I guess it's not about popularity, there must be something about Node that doesn't work well with SnapStart 🤔

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...

You can find our session in the re:Invent catalog here: registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...

re:Invent API308 session info

Excited for this re:Invent talk on one of my favorite topics - bringing together the best of AWS serverless and Kubernetes! ☸️ Christina, Giedrius, and I will share how we're seeing platform teams enable developers to deploy serverless applications using Kubernetes APIs and tools.

In case you're looking for serverless people on here, I made a starter pack for you.

go.bsky.app/PmjTiyJ

DevOps w/ Amazon ECS and Github Actions This document covers the best way I found for deploying software to Amazon ECS automatically with Github Actions — procedure, safety…

medium.com/@gabrielsoll...

Using Github Actions & workflows for your CI/CD pipelines and automation tasks is a great idea. (1/3)

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🚀 Issue 11 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out now!

This week, our Serverless expert of the week is Darryl Ruggles, and our spotlight falls on AWS DevTools Hero Matthew Bonig! 🎉

serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/11-happy-1...

#AWS #Serverless

New blog post on ten years of AWS Lambda, and some thoughts on the Lambda PRFAQ: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/11...