RT @FlukeFan: @mweagle and there’s more than one summit.
http://blog.epsagon.com/the-most-popular-deployment-tools-for-serverless
“A POSIX for WebAssembly if you will. A PWSIX? A portable WebAssembly system interface.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-future/
RT @ChrisShort: Recommended Read: CloudWatch Is of the Devil, but I Must Use It https://cshort.co/2Rv3kCC
💯 https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1029757026895720449
RT @edyesed: In today’s episode, our hero returns to his childhood home of Mississippi.
Please send mosquito repellent https://t.co/RbZeA…
What if things that we treat as independent are in fact, not really independent.
Huge if true.
Replying to @turgon
But...then the model wouldn’t work, so that can’t be true :)
RT @brianleroux: @jeremy_daly Teams, the vendors (serverless k8s?), all of us do it on some level! The self interested will drive growth ou…
Replying to @ramyanexus and @jboursiquot
Thank you for Code. I use and love it everyday. 🙏
Replying to @jeremy_daly, @s0enke, @drewfirment and @pmarca
Related: https://hbr.org/2018/08/research-to-get-people-to-embrace-change-emphasize-what-will-stay-the-same
Replying to @richburroughs
Drift into Victory
RT @richburroughs: If you think you might like this talk at your conference, please feel free to reach out to me. DMs are open.
Go slow to go fast
“Serverless search and analytics for data-driven apps”
https://rockset.com/
#serverless Neptune
https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/
#awswishlist
Replying to @jdub
#upvote
RT @kstewart: As more pieces start falling into place, I’m getting more and more excited about the vision for my team @fastly
Phase 1 to…
‘Instead of reacting to an error with, “I need to be more careful,” we can respond with, “I can build a better system.”’ Quality and effort | Seth’s Blog https://seths.blog/2018/11/quality-and-effort/
RT @reddieshelton: Alright tech Twitter!
My contract is almost up and I just want to see what my options are. Im a Full Stack #JavaScript…
Hot take: Cloud-native packaging doesn’t create a cloud-native app.
The cloud-native app jump is a much bigger one and not everything can or should make it. It’s the ledge where the container and serverless journeys meet.
RT @monkchips: the only thing you can control is your own vote. there is no external force you can rely on, no wave, or otherwise. you are…
“We traced the lock-in...it’s coming from inside the house!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcGm-pWwsQ
OH: “Interesting, this is actually broken.”
Vote.
Replying to @dberkholz, @QuinnyPig, @StabbyCutyou and @VetsWhoCode
In the same spirit: http://www.minedminds.org/
RT @FarrahC32: @mweagle Done and done.
Why open office design makes you less productive (via @Pocket) https://medium.com/swlh/why-open-office-design-makes-you-less-productive-95d45ffba9eb
RT @JRBinSV: Just watched the latest @PodSaveAmerica on HBO with @MsLaToshaBrown. Amazing work Latosha, inspiring to see what your leading…
Managed Services Don’t Always Lead to Vendor Lock-In (via @Pocket) https://blog.upbound.io/managed-services-dont-always-lead-to-vendor-lock-in/
“When we take the time to interact with our stakeholders, and are deliberate with our build vs. buy decisions, we’ve found that our outcomes have been very positive and generally well received by the teams we support.” (via @Pocket) https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/new-relic-engineering-operations/
Replying to @kstewart
RT @kstewart: Walking back to our room at Cavallo Point, a black man says to us “Glad to see Y’ALL here!”
We’re happy to see you here too!…
Vote. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1058502989286072320
RT @heyellieday: There are many tools for building software platforms, but many of them suffer from having a compelling and simple “hello w…
RT @ChloeCondon: Don’t DM a female speaker asking them to step down as the keynote speaker so you, a man, can take the spot as runner-up. D…
Sparta 1.6.0 - The REST edition 🎉
Create a self-deploying #serverless REST API that includes its own CloudWatch Dashboard in less than 400 lines. API Gateway service passes the https://www.todobackend.com/ set of online tests.
Replying to @mweagle
`structs` are mapped to REST resources and registered as group.
Replying to @mweagle
Sample Todo project at https://github.com/mweagle/SpartaTodoBackend.
Changes at https://github.com/mweagle/Sparta/blob/master/CHANGES.md#v160---the-rest-edition-
Build something #serverless & awesome!
But please vote first.
ICYMI... https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1059302114122321921
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/editingemily/status/1059454721084125184
Replying to @editingemily and @threadreaderapp
Thank you. +💯 to a great talk topic.
Switching it up...
Twitter is great at interspersing pre-emptive “but lock-in” arguments with inspirational stories of personal, organizational and technical achievement.
RT @FarrahC32: Heck yes we are! #lambda #awspartner https://twitter.com/stackeryio/status/1057724761860653056
👇 https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/1059552814077140992
Hopeful Monsters as a service
Replying to @dshaw, @kentcdodds and @PayPal
Congratulations @dshaw !
Replying to @richburroughs, @newrelic and @rakyll
Say hi to @joshroppo 👋
Current status: phone banking
RT @dshaw: #vote Listen to Coconut. https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1059626008834392064
Replying to @brianleroux and @QuinnyPig
The toughest.
@tmclaughbos ’s https://www.serverlessops.io/ is a good read on the future of #serverless, ops, and adapting to change:
“I’ve shown that there is a place for operations people as there is still much engineering work to be done by us.”
💯 agree. Different != Absent.
“In case you did not realize it, Nobody enjoys writing and maintaining data pipelines or ETL. It’s the industry’s ultimate hot potato.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl/
“I also left this conference a bit concerned about the future of serverless. Don’t get me wrong, I am still an ardent supporter of serverless, but I think adoption is going to take a lot longer than I had originally believed.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://www.jeremydaly.com/takeaways-from-serverlessnyc-2018/
VOTE https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1059215423684526080
Replying to @tmaiaroto and @Pocket
I like CQRS & I also don’t think adding it to the mix will accelerate serverless adoption. If you’re already serverless, CQRS seems appealing. If you’re already CQRS, serverless seems appealing.
If you’re not either, then doing both at once seems very risky.
Replying to @edyesed and @JasonAl42523988
Us West Coasters waking up to the news...
Replying to @tmaiaroto and @Pocket
Not sure - https://leanpub.com/esversioning/read is somewhere on my reading backlog. I could really use some guidance on how to evolve ES/CQRS systems before pushing it as “the” solution.
Replying to @edyesed and @JasonAl42523988
Your home cooking dinner plate shots are tremendous.
Replying to @grepory
Perfect Observability Or Perish?
RT @lcooney: This. Documentation is critical. #developers #community https://twitter.com/sbraab/status/1059841280182812673
🤗 & 😎
Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS WAF https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-api-gateway-adds-support-for-aws-waf/
Kudos to team @heptio on the news. https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/vmware-acquires-heptio-the-startup-founded-by-2-co-founders-of-kubernetes/
TIL freezing coconut milk isn’t a great idea.
RT @jboursiquot: Do you like being an Engineering Manager? Want to do it for an organization that’s doing the hard work of educational equi…
I am not sure what to make of this.
https://holochain.org/
Replying to @ben11kehoe
I don’t know what’s happening here.
Replying to @ben11kehoe
😂😂😂
Current status: feels like every ligament in my knee has decided to shorten by 1/8" inch.
Replying to @mweagle
I should ask my doctor if blockchain is right for me.
Replying to @turgon
brb... registering http://kneechain.io
They suggest you shouldn’t be talking about this. https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/1060007369130889216
Taking a break from poll results to watch @zionw32
Recommended.
Replying to @IamStan and @edyesed
Replying to @edyesed and @IamStan
Word. I am guilty of shoulders wider than plane seats, but keep it tight after that.
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @edjgeek
Yet Another Misleading Literal
Replying to @ben11kehoe, @ryan_marsh and @pulumi
I like YAML! I also like other things.
Could use one of these for “When do you use YAML, again”
http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/when-do-you-use-xml-again/
“Nothing’s more expensive than building software that doesn’t matter.” @littleidea @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=ALGuyXSo5e8
Build the bridge you plan to burn
RT @mipsytipsy: bump! i am curating a series of blog posts about on call. I want to compile a reference library of *On Call Success Stori…
Replying to @mweagle
My doctor replied...
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbella_/status/1055874840555544581
Replying to @valarauca1
Maybe not a lot of people In Da Testing Club there?
Replying to @wanghq
It’s not clear to me how this impacts coldstart times although I am a supporter of trying to make code as readable as possible!
At least for the `go` world, I’ve used https://golang.org/pkg/sync/#Once and https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#init to help eliminate complexity from request-handling paths.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (to merge).
Replying to @edyesed
Too late...
Replying to @edyesed
Update.
Azure Functions 2.0: Create Function App from Docker Image (Functions triggered by Cosmos DB, Blob storage, Event Hub and SignalR service bindings) https://pocket.co/x8CMC7
Maelstrom: mitigating datacenter-level disasters by draining interdependent traffic safely and efficiently https://pocket.co/x8CQoI
“GitHub Actions is effectively a serverless platform.”
GitHub Universe 2018: Low Key Revolutionary https://pocket.co/x8CQdg
RT @juliaferraioli: This latest from @catehstn isn’t so much a quiz as it is guided introspection for managers.
https://qz.com/work/1447711/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-good-manager/
Replying to @edyesed
Replying to @chrismunns and @AWSreInvent
Calling it: #bulletpointless is the new hotness
I so wish I had this a few years ago. https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1060584620234690560
Replying to @AyanGeorge
Awesome & wishing you a speedy recovery. ✊
Replying to @bitandbang
👋
/cc @ewindisch , @brianleroux , @txase , @adjohn , @acloudguru, @auth0, @chrismunns , @BretMcG ...
A place to get started: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqlcVgk8SkUmve4Kw4xSlgw/videos
Hummingbirds are fearless
Replying to @edyesed
There is a feeder right outside my window and they chase each other all day. At least a couple times a day one of them bounces off the window in true WWE fashion and then keeps fighting.
Knee effusion sounds so much more pleasant than it really is.
Replying to @southpolesteve and @hichaelmart
Replying to @hichaelmart and @southpolesteve
No worries & appreciate it. There are lot of approaches out there and it’ll be pretty interesting to see how things shake out.
Had some great conversations this week. Working on something for Sparta that 3am PagerDuty Matt has wanted for as long as I’ve been doing ☁️.
#preInventWindowClosing
Replying to @landongn
Hell yeah
Replying to @systemalias
Maybe @awsgeek has suggestions?
“Again, what was critical was that simplicity and utility trumped everything else.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://hackernoon.com/things-i-learned-managing-site-reliability-for-some-of-the-worlds-busiest-gambling-sites-742b80a2be0c
RT @RobGruhl: My favorite technical conference - it was a thrill to give a full-length talk this year on one of my favorite topics. ❤️🤓 #se…
Replying to @chrismunns
Breaking pre:Invent announcement: ElastiChris
The beast at Cloud. Requests, his army. PagerDuty, when the walls fell.
Skate to where the puck floats on water.
RT @sanathkr_: New home for #AWS #SAM 🐒? http://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam
While I’m happy to see more people encouraging the “serverless mindset”, there seems to be a fair amount of FUD and hyperbole here.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers
Replying to @turgon
Agree it’s an interesting take on edge. Some of the other “data” I could do without.
Wrapping up final Sparta release until re:Avalanche.
Adding Interceptor support: for those times when I wish I had enabled debug logging, but only if the event handler failed. #serverless
https://overcast.fm/+KD8C3vg
Handy go package
https://github.com/pkg/browser
Replying to @kstewart and @getoutmyheadman
I didn’t realize you ordered a MacBook Air.
Replying to @kstewart and @getoutmyheadman
Yeah, that’s gross. Not why shorts are the uni.
Replying to @lindydonna
Yeah - IMO that’s not needed to highlight their approach.
Replying to @IamStan and @lindydonna
Yeah - the tech may be solid, but the message and tone hits an off note.
🎉 Sparta v1.7.0: The Time Machine Edition 🕰 🎉
For those times when you wish you could go back in time and enable debug logging for a single request.
https://github.com/mweagle/Sparta/blob/master/CHANGES.md#v170
#serverless #go
Replying to @mweagle
Sparta v1.7.0 adds `Interceptors`: user defined hooks called during the lambda event handling flow to support cross-cutting concerns. The first interceptor is an XRay annotation and metadata interceptor.
https://godoc.org/github.com/mweagle/Sparta/interceptor#RegisterXRayInterceptor
Replying to @mweagle
☢️ The XRayInterceptor works with your existing logging calls and can optionally publish ring-buffered log messages to the XRay segment *only if* there was an error. No error, no worries. ☢️
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-go-segment.html
Replying to @mweagle
In case of an error, visit the Trace in the XRay console and dig into a state-preserving representation of the request, including the AWS Request ID. Your log statement can publish a PII-aware redacted event.
Replying to @mweagle
TL;DR; things break and those conditions can be hard to reproduce. Use an XRayInterceptor to see back through time.
Replying to @mweagle
An opportunity to make your Future-3am-Self much more rested in fewer than 6 lines of code.
https://github.com/mweagle/SpartaXRayInterceptor
Replying to @mweagle
Last thing - you can also enable BuildID segment annotation so that you can use XRay filter expressions. Navigate your service’s evolution and failure profile over time.
First rule of debug club: what’s running?
Pencils down until re:Invent...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-go-segment.html#xray-sdk-go-segment-annotations
RT @kstewart: I’ve had the privilege of watching Sparta evolve from the very beginning. Truly a fantastic serverless toolchain and 1.7.0 lo…
Replying to @kstewart
Thanks! Been a long & windy road. 🙏😎
“Platform ops is needed to achieve economies of scale in a DevOps environment in which product delivery teams are responsible for deployment and operations of their own applications.” (via @Pocket) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-you-scale-devops-micrsoservice-architecture-without-watson
ICYMI... https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1061846291716567041
“What would it be like if you could simply give us feedback, have us graciously receive it, reflect, and work to change the behavior?” Recently, a man of color sighed and said, “It would be revolutionary.” (via @Pocket) https://medium.com/s/story/how-white-people-handle-diversity-training-in-the-workplace-e8408d2519f
Please unroll this thread @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/terri_potts/status/1061769939323928576
Replying to @mweagle
Shout out to https://hackernoon.com/overcome-x-rays-issue-for-debugging-892498b14346 for guidance.
“I don’t think you can entirely stave off burnout with praise – it’s systemic and situational, but I think you can certainly help.”
(via @Pocket) http://www.heidiwaterhouse.com/2018/07/04/praise-is-a-vitamin/
Replying to @jrhunt
Soylent?
Public Service Announcement
https://www.whois.com/whois/emojichain.com
RT @TimirahJ: You can find the slides from my “Function Composition in a Severless World” talk are posted here: https://github.com/timirahj/Serverless-Function-Composition-Talk @S…
Replying to @TimirahJ and @S3rverless
Thx - do you know if there will be a recording posted?
Replying to @TimirahJ and @S3rverless
Excellent! Looking forward to watching along at home. 😃👌
Replying to @richburroughs and @GremlinInc
Was waiting to see what your next step was - congrats! Looking forward to seeing more Gremlins in the (controlled) wild.
RT @marypcbuk: am I the only person wondering if a graph is the best representation of that kind of information? https://twitter.com/maarcingebala/status/1062072909202669568
Replying to @danilop
Nice 👊
LeSaaS: LeBron Subtweeting as a Service
Anyone using @ballerinalang ?
https://ballerina.io/learn/quick-tour/
Replying to @Jowanza and @ballerinalang
WDYT so far? What do you think is most compelling about it?
Replying to @aarongreenlee and @ballerinalang
I was wondering what was under the hood. What do you like most about it?
Replying to @aarongreenlee and @ballerinalang
Yeah, that seems like a good promotion. Do you use the visualization aspects? The packaging annotations?
Disclaimer: I am ~11 minutes into my Ballerina reading :)
I want to believe this, but I think I should do a bit more rooting around first.
“Golang...will run, just fast...And fast matters.” @pamasaur https://overcast.fm/+RrTAVrmY
🙏😞 https://clutchpoints.com/nets-news-caris-levert-suffers-gruesome-ankle-injury/
How Ballerina is different from other programming languages
https://medium.com/ballerinalang/ballerina-why-it-is-different-from-other-programming-languages-cbdf5f248390 https://medium.com/ballerinalang/ballerina-why-it-is-different-from-other-programming-languages-cbdf5f248390
Saying “No” https://pocket.co/x8TePd
FinDevOps and Serverless: Unlocking the Promise of the Cloud https://pocket.co/x8Te42
Replying to @darkuncle
Yes. ✊
“It’s time for this culture of terminal juniority, low autonomy, and aggressive management to die...[T]here’s a generation of software engineers who are absorbing them without knowing any better.” (via @Pocket) https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/
“Learning anything new is, by its nature, uncomfortable. You will need to act in ways that are unfamiliar.” (via @Pocket) https://hbr.org/2018/11/if-you-want-to-get-better-at-something-ask-yourself-these-two-questions
Replying to @lizthegrey and @rakyll
I would really appreciate a reference post for the recommended /.*z pages. 🙇♂️
TIL `function*` is a thing. 😱
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function*
Replying to @mweagle
Ironic that it points to the wrong page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function*
Context is king.
Advertiser: this one trick shaves 2 keystrokes and all context for eternity.
Replying to @ben11kehoe
🎉🙌 Have wanted this since Day 1. Was there an official announcement?
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1022341505371930624
Props @chuckm & team @AWSCloudFormer ! https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1062430252285063168
Replying to @hoegertn and @ben11kehoe
🤦♀️
Thx!
E_TOO_MANY_THINGS_TO_TRACK
Replying to @forrestbrazeal
Been happy with the North Face Overhaul 40
Replying to @edyesed
Current status
The language around “tooling” tends to focus on the perceived discrete functionality and not the pragmatic ongoing commitment. A TSDB for metrics is a “tool”, but it’s one that requires frequent attention.
Replying to @mweagle
Same for alerting & escalation systems, log aggregators, key management “tools”. They’re not “throw in the toolbox” tools that I can leave unattended for years and have confidence they’ll work. They’re commitments that need continual refreshing.
Replying to @mweagle
Calling them “tools” rather than “systems with more stringent requirements than the primary system(s)” is misleading.
“Pick a tool” is less consequence-triggering than “support another stateful system”
Replying to @mweagle
And like the Panda’s Thumb, once they get a foothold it’s hard to displace them with something else that’s theoretically better.
Replying to @chuckm, @AWSCloudFormer and @anilsdomain
Thank you @anilsdomain
Replying to @geoff_baskwill
Agree
https://twitter.com/werner/status/799266204229701632?lang=en
Planning on being in the SEA area for #KubeCon
https://twitter.com/jasongrimes/status/1062447041672957952
Replying to @mweagle
There should be a ? in there..
No ? that this will be a fun event however. RSVP today.
Replying to @jasongrimes
You know it.
Replying to @valarauca1
Suggest leaving it overnight, fresh eyes tomorrow for review/second draft then push for feedback.
Replying to @MozDevNet
Exactly - you C that too?
With re:Invent looming large, tabling coding for a bit and going to investigate if Twitter might not be the best medium to discuss CAS.
Ex. A for the jury:
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Engineering-Complex-Technological-Systems/dp/1119068592
Replying to @MozDevNet
Appreciate it! MDN docs are 👌
Replying to @lindydonna
Poltergeist
Seems legit
“A systems engineer has to be a people person. A sociopath cannot be a systems engineer.” Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/managing-and-engineering/9781119068594/c1c.xhtml
Replying to @crandycodes
Thx. This most definitely doesn’t look like the NodeJS I remember. 😉
Great cause, good show.
https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/wolves-and-warriors/
Replying to @marypcbuk, @PaulDJohnston and @Smartsheet
is another
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/smartsheet/
Replying to @marypcbuk, @PaulDJohnston and @Smartsheet
Yeah - was thinking more along these lines: https://zapier.com/apps/aws-lambda/integrations/smartsheet
MS Office being serverless would mark a new phase on the serverless hype journey.
Replying to @edyesed
I’M A PEOPLE PERSON!
Replying to @BashanGal
Completely agree. This was the narrative I tried to emphasize in:
https://speakerdeck.com/mweagle/using-serverless-to-build-servicefull-applications?slide=9
Replying to @ShortJared
Cue “The FaaS and the Curious” soundtrack...
Replying to @chrismunns, @jeremy_daly, @FarrahC32 and @BashanGal
Yep. The Future is unevenly distributed and we’re very, very, very early in the serverless journey.
PSA
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/905921091847294977 https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1062771405278736385
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @tmclaughbos
Livin’ La Vida Lambda
Replying to @edyesed
https://http.cat/406
Replying to @edyesed
I think @mindstorms6 has creatively solved this issue in the past.
So we meet again, React JS.
Replying to @turgon
Brilliant 😂
Something for @kstewart s xmas list.
“It took me another decade to realize if I had been really honest with myself it wasn’t about fighting change at all.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-keep-your-job-company-grows-steve-blank/
Replying to @mweagle
I think a lot of these sentiments could equally apply to the #serverless space
What changes when things go away? How does that make people feel?
“Development is interested in quick feedback whether their change would introduce any vulnerabilities, and operations is interested in insights whether and how running applications are affected if a new CVE is discovered.” (via @Pocket) https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/11/12/inspecting-binaries-with-jenkins/
Looking for a #serverless ‘go’ project?
Making a Lambda version of this would be a fun time.
https://github.com/common-nighthawk/go-figure
“A piece of the puzzle was still missing for us was: How were we going to address canary deployments?” (via @Pocket) https://medium.com/nikeengineering/safely-deploy-aws-lambdas-with-cloudformation-d0ee829d8351
“In which case given a suitable logging system it ought to be possible to ask wat-provenance questions directly of the logs.” 🧐 (via @Pocket) #longreads https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/12/debugging-distributed-systems-with-why-across-time-provenance/
I’m supposed to be reading, but there are so many times in the past I have wanted this (opt-in) @AWSCloudFormer feature.
Coming to Sparta http://v.next near you. I really need to manage my pre:Invent information intake better.
Replying to @IamStan and @seldo
What’s a good summary of the latest?
Replying to @seldo and @IamStan
Sadly appropriate for so many things these days.
TL;DL: Yes
http://mynorthwest.com/1186128/slalom-seattle-monorail-columns/?
RT @abbyfuller: I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this but there are no magical nerd bonus points for doing things the hard way.
You ca…
Replying to @chrismunns and @brianleroux
DDB access became so much easier in `go` with https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/dynamodb/dynamodbattribute/
Replying to @valarauca1
I am so here for this.
Replying to @polotek
It sounds too familiar...
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/business/businessspecial3/26jury.html
Catching up with re:Invent...2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJcKwAChHE&feature=youtu.be&t=22m17s
On a good day Twitter offers wisdom and guiding principles.
Today is a good day.
👏 @tammybutow & @richburroughs https://twitter.com/richburroughs/status/1063182834649579520
Who called it Agile instead of Theory of Complaints?
Seattle: where you car doubles as a literal rat’s nest.
Tech headlines have a huge Fundamental Attribution Error bias and editors don’t want to deal with it.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mgxb/the-internet-has-a-huge-cc-problem-and-developers-dont-want-to-deal-with-it
“Our goal is to make clear that public [S3] access is to be used for web hosting!”
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-block-public-access-another-layer-of-protection-for-your-accounts-and-buckets/
Hot Take: REST -> Events -> Distributed & Replayable Workflows
Replying to @posix4e
I can dream.
Replying to @systemalias
Yeah, I think that will (has to?) be part of it in some way.
RT @benkershner: Almost every day this week I’ve had a very talented engineer come to me with a problem outside of their domain expertise t…
Replying to @chrismunns
Nice. (PS: plz put this poor cat on a diet)
I recommend this @mcfunley post pretty often. 🏆
http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Replying to @mcfunley
Also related is the excellent Taxonomy of Yaks by @jessitron
https://the-composition.com/a-taxonomy-of-yak-shaving-102da591308b
Replying to @monkchips, @PulumiCorp and @atomist
I’d like to add `go` to that phrase 😀
Friday: ReactJS time
Replying to @tmaiaroto
Yeah, about that...
Replying to @turgon
RT @jayrosen_nyu: One of the best things I have read about doing journalism on the internet. https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest
Yep https://twitter.com/davefarley77/status/1063706357646442496
🎉 Sparta v1.7.1 - The Cloud Drift Edition 🌬☁️ 🎉
Added a CloudFormation Drift detection check. (Optionally) prevent mutations if Stack drift is detected.
#go #serverless
Replying to @mweagle
Release notes: https://github.com/mweagle/Sparta/blob/master/CHANGES.md#v171---the-cloud-drift-edition-%EF%B8%8F
Decorator docs: https://godoc.org/github.com/mweagle/Sparta/decorator#DriftDetector
Now it’s ✏️⬇️ for the rest of pre:Invent.
Replying to @edyesed and @jeffhollan
Do it!
We have great tests thx to @tuxology , @perrito666 and others.
Hard to believe it’s November.
“What would happen if the length of the shower that each member of the research station team at the South Pole took could be shortened by 30 seconds?”
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/managing-and-engineering/9781119068594/c3a.xhtml via
🎉 Sparta v1.7.2 - The Cloud reDrift Edition 🌬☁️ 🎉
Nothing major. I was just so focused on supporting Drift Detection I put it in the wrong place. #go #serverless
Now moved to a Validator
Replying to @mweagle
Release notes: https://github.com/mweagle/Sparta/blob/master/CHANGES.md#v172---the-cloud-drift-edition-v2-%EF%B8%8F
Still November.
ICYMI... #go #serverless https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1064380283355426817
Replying to @daveddev
AFAIK, there are are go mod Interactions. Given the short lifetime & additive feature, went the easier route.
RT @edyesed: our friend @mweagle summarizing an incredibly salient aspect of the hiring cycle.
The Three Technologies you need to know wi…
`go` WASM can’t get here fast enough.
Replying to @edyesed
Ugh - hope you feel better soon
RT @kwuchu: @rakyll
Python 4 scheduled for re:Invent https://twitter.com/chrismunns/status/1064616498671566849
Replying to @PaulDJohnston
Details, details... 😀
Replying to @kstewart, @brianleroux and @jaggeree
Say what now?
RT @PaulDJohnston: This.
If all the failures wrote books...
“I worked really hard and put all my spare money in and knew it was going to…
Replying to @brianleroux, @kstewart and @jaggeree
Nice! Please LMK if I can help!
Yes, I am using this in lieu of a spinner indicator.
Replying to @mweagle
And yes - it is only for testing.
Reminder in this season to give thanks to the people who keep things running.
There are more ways for systems to “fail” than there are for them to “succeed”. People battle the entropy every day.
Support your local Ops teams.
“A culture of safety means being deliberate of the actions, aware of the production environment, and conscious of customer experience. It requires you to develop an understanding of the complexity and the interconnectedness.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://m.subbu.org/taming-the-rate-of-change-439e3dccbb5d
I am skeptical that resiliency strategies can be offloaded and that “you don’t need to put them into your code.”
Replying to @mweagle
Replying to @IamStan
NomJS
Replying to @IamStan
BTW, what’s her name?
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Yep - the AWS SDKs are good about default & configurable retry-aware clients. I can also see weaving that through gRPC.
I more struggle with the idea that it could be proxy/sidecar offloaded, but 🤷♀️
A serverless circuit breaker would be a cool project...
Replying to @esh and @reinvent_bot
I am irrationally excited to learn of this announcement.
Replying to @Serow225 and @ben11kehoe
They have to me at least :)
Replying to @ben11kehoe
I’d go so far as to say they even expect you to be an adversarial neighbor :)
Wondering what a Release It! for serverless would look like...
Replying to @Serow225, @ben11kehoe and @AzureFunctions
Only in passing. Would like to spend more time with @AzureFunctions.
Replying to @mweagle
Related: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/11/18/Post-REST
How is it possible that I just found this page?
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/
Replying to @edyesed
There are 51 announcements in the past 2 days.
RT @JustinBeckwith: The future is rad. https://twitter.com/kosamari/status/1064782060814950400
Replying to @richburroughs, @edyesed and @QuinnyPig
Absolutely. Publication schedule pushed up for “Last 24 hours in AWS”.
RT @QuinnyPig: @mweagle @richburroughs @edyesed I’ve pared it down to 21 links so far in Monday’s issue. Most full issues contain 25-30. I’…
Replying to @techandautism
“Testing” code has a way of hanging around. 😉
Helped build something very similar to this in a previous life. Using git was very powerful. 👍 https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2018/dynamic-configuration-at-twitter.html
RT @richburroughs: This looks really interesting. https://twitter.com/sedaunal/status/1065056647679115264
Replying to @richburroughs
Yes. 👍
Replying to @jt7d, @QuinnyPig, @edyesed, @richburroughs, @jeffbarr and @ajaynairthinks
Nice! I may need to reconsider my us-east-1 feelings 😀
“Data API Beta is available for the MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora Serverless in the US East (N. Virginia) Region”
Coming soon to a Sparta “The cardinality edition” near you. https://twitter.com/abhik5ingh/status/1065079691130867712
Replying to @prestomation, @jt7d, @QuinnyPig, @edyesed, @richburroughs, @jeffbarr and @ajaynairthinks
RT @ben11kehoe: @edyesed @mweagle RSS ftw https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/
Replying to @IamStan
Smart pup
Replying to @edyesed, @ben11kehoe, @PaulDJohnston and @awscloud
Amazon Studio presents:
The Obsolescence of the Lambda
Replying to @txase, @PaulDJohnston, @ben11kehoe and @edyesed
Good idea! Thx.
Replying to @ben11kehoe, @PaulDJohnston, @txase and @edyesed
Thx for doing that and also, *you* shouldn’t need to do it.
Area seems ripe for personalized feeds. #awswishlist
YAML is coming
Replying to @ben11kehoe, @forrestbrazeal, @edyesed and @Trek10inc
Doing a #serverless dogfooding project would make for a good AWS SA whitepaper.
RT @juliaferraioli: Psychological safety is something we can all foster. https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1063571036640182272
Replying to @richburroughs
You’re much too considerate to bear any resemblance to Joffrey in any way.
But maybe a Stark 😉
Replying to @fabsx00
What is that?
Replying to @richburroughs
Excellent role model. 🤺
This is a pragmatic and forward looking conversation on #serverless and containers with @kelseyhightower, @pamasaur, and @ben11kehoe
Recommended https://overcast.fm/+N7OWXCo-A
“If you want to build trust, you do that by showing up, talking to your team both individually and as a team, and behaving in an ethical, reliable manner. Over, and over, and over again.” https://medium.com/@skamille/i-hate-manager-readmes-20a0dd9a70d0
RT @monkchips: delete your account
Cool 😎. Something similar for the AWS Step function fans: https://gosparta.io/reference/step_functions/ https://twitter.com/swarvanusg/status/1065222308950769664
“The best advice I can give to you is that if it’s hard and seems almost impossible: you’re on the right track. Find good mentors, take folks out to coffee...and network as much as you can.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://medium.com/@chloecondon/from-building-sets-to-building-developer-communities-6f1f25f9e248
‘But if we can agree on something, we can agree that “explanation” style questions should be a part of your interview process. Start there, and build on that.’ (via @Pocket) https://redfin.engineering/ask-engineering-interview-candidates-to-explain-something-c91ae6329499
“Today, as the internet evolves and buzzwords like serverless enter the scene, more and more application logic is being built at the edge.” (via @Pocket) https://www.fastly.com/blog/looking-to-future-how-edge-innovation-sparked-fastly-labs
‘Ferguson’s students are already there. He still teaches students to build software using methods other than serverless computing. “But it feels like I’m punishing the students...because serverless is so much easier."’ (via @Pocket) https://www.wired.com/story/promise-practically-serverless-computing/
Replying to @jeremy_daly, @JoeEmison and @appwiz
Does upping Lambda memory allocation affect it?
RT @joeerl: Thus sayeth rule 39 of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_Style
“Make it right before you make it faster”
Any incorrect program can be made ar…
Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems
“One...key trait a successful systems engineer must possess is the ability to simplify, when the atmosphere is one of complexity and complication. A good systems engineer prevents complication...”
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/managing-and-engineering/9781119068594/c3a.xhtml
Replying to @chrismunns
“The systemic lesson here is that the developer cannot provide efficient production specifications, if it has never encountered production processes. Therefore, bringing production and development closer together provides vital advantages.” https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/managing-and-engineering/9781119068594/c3b.xhtml v
Replying to @kstewart and @theleaddev
Knowledge from the top turnbuckle
RT @kstewart: In less than 2 weeks I will be sharing the insights about engineering leadership I learned from comics and pro wrestling @the…
Current status: trying to take my own advice.
Replying to @edyesed
A lot like that 😂
Checking in with the #reInvent tweet stream.
Replying to @forrestbrazeal and @southpolesteve
I’m not sure I believe “job” is a fixed category.
That’s a lot of 9s: “The Intelligent-Tiering storage class is designed for 99.9% availability and 99.999999999% durability” https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-automatic-cost-optimization-for-amazon-s3-via-intelligent-tiering/
RT @jamfish728: #hugops to all the Ops folks handling the pager over this long-selling weekend. Y’all the real MVPs.
RT @PaulDJohnston: @bulent_sezgin @ahmetb @brianleroux Also @IamStan @ben11kehoe @tmclaughbos @mweagle @JoeEmison @jeremy_daly are good peo…
👋 & 🙏
RT @ben11kehoe: I’m here for the container power hour! For the next 60 minutes, no serverless snark. Containers & container orchestration a…
💯
Ability to inject faults into managed services.
#awswishlist https://twitter.com/ben11kehoe/status/1067184148966662144
Great summary & I’m still a fan of monorepos. https://twitter.com/rehemagi/status/1067174654618583041
🤦♀️
https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116
Replying to @mweagle
And to be clear, that is for the entire situation and surrounding community expectations.
Say 👋 to @realDavyHua if you see him at #reInvent https://twitter.com/HuaDavy/status/1067205574876553216
Replying to @sallamar and @AnupWarrier
Nice!
Replying to @EwanToo
I haven’t seen those! Will need to circle back given the recent HTTP support.
Replying to @IamStan and @brianleroux
Related: https://konghq.com/solutions/gateway/
Replying to @IamStan and @brianleroux
`go` to WASM is trailing behind rust & I’d expect performance to be comparable: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WebAssembly
RT @sallamar: .@colmmacc on the perils of using truncatable formats like YAML in his talk on control loops
Replying to @brianleroux and @IamStan
Replying to @richburroughs
Part of the “Cable Thorn” series?
Da Fears: APIs are forever
Replying to @mweagle
Less obliquely: http://www.hyrumslaw.com/
“I think it won’t be boring.”
@ajassy on tomorrow’s #reInvent keynote.
Replying to @edyesed
NICE!
Calendaring is a solved problem: 2019 Edition
Replying to @edyesed
Whatever they want :)
Replying to @ben11kehoe
WDYT about auto-generating POLA IAMs and then applying policies/macros/other? to limit privilege creep?
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Same - but that puts pressure on testing all conditional branches to verify completeness. Sugar might help but still opens up deferred failure modes.
Wrapping IAM in https://github.com/mweagle/go-cloudformation doesn’t help that much TBH.
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Just sayin, trying to divine what IAM privs are needed for compound SDK calls is a *lot* of raw kale.
I like vegetables and sometimes just need to know they’re in the dish :)
Replying to @JoeEmison
I don’t know.
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1067187118013845504
Replying to @JoeEmison
Exactly - coordination is hard. It’s even harder when nobody is in the same place or timeline.
The unit of collaboration doesn’t have to be the same as the unit of deploy or service responsibility.
Replying to @JoeEmison
Yep. Defer all coordination costs/externalities for as long as possible.
They’ll always find a way to show up at the party, but that doesn’t mean they need to be the first ones invited.
Pipe:Queue/Stream :: Filter:Lambda https://twitter.com/jbesw/status/1067482433358950401
Trying to increase the odds...
Rumor has it @_Dad_Ops has a spaceship, @jrhunt https://twitter.com/_Dad_Ops/status/1067553559271489536
RT @realDavyHua: Compliance and identity mgmt is the name of the game
HUZZAH! https://twitter.com/danilop/status/1067558937229021185
Replying to @danilop, @undef_obj and @sapessi
Don’t `go` there... 😉
No better time to migrate to structured logs:
“CloudWatch Logs Insights automatically discovers fields in logs from...any application or custom log that emits log events as JSON.” #reinvent
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/AnalyzingLogData.html
Replying to @PreetamJinka
People who liked that post also liked: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL_Insights-Visualizing-TimeSeries.html
😉😎
Replying to @mweagle
In the `go` world, picked https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/ from Day 1 and been a satisfied user.
“This is my logging implementation. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
Wanted for Go++: logging interface.
RT @this_hits_home: @JiraOps There are years of improvements beyond RCA that tech is finally digging into through Safety Differently, Resil…
Replying to @geoff_baskwill
srsly! Nice rollout strategy as well:
“You can use CloudWatch Logs Insights to search log data that was sent to CloudWatch Logs on November 5, 2018 or later.”
Replying to @geoff_baskwill
Might need to keep an eye on any big screen wall continuous queries :)
This week is huge for all things @QuinnyPig
Duke 🏀 is fun to watch. #oneAndDone
Played around with CloudWatch Insights.
Has promise, but (required?) faceting on LogGroups is pretty limiting. Is it possible to track a correlation ID across multiple log emitters? #reInvent
Interested in getting better at public speaking?
Suggest taking @evanderkoogh up on his offer and sharing your voice with others. #erwinIsGoodPeople https://twitter.com/evanderkoogh/status/1067263849789673472
Heads up @AlaskaAir, This is a bit challenging to read.
TimeSeries DB 🤞
#reinvent
Replying to @mweagle
This Tweet brought to you by delays in the Livestream
Timestream (theoretically) fills a glaring purpose-built storage gap in AWS. #reInvent
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @jeffhollan
Quantum Levels Database?
Not new, somewhat boring, still powerful
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover.html
Amazon Prime: overnight your AWS hybrid cloud rack for an extra $4.99.
RT @QuinnyPig: I want to pause here for a second during the #reInvent Blockchain Bonus Round and shout out to all of the @awscloud employee…
Replying to @QuinnyPig, @adrianco and @awscloud
IIRC Lambda has been discussed in @Werner ’s keynote...
Hot Take: I do not want a DeepRacer.
Don’t @me.
Hoping this comes through tomorrow...
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/935917312774848512
RT @EricaJoy: protip addendum: stop assuming “is technical” conveys anything of value.
(if you ask 10 people what “is technical” means, yo…
Any talk of using QLDB for EventSourcing || CQRS at #reInvent?
#itsBeen2Hours
I need to reconsider the choices that led me to this point.
Narrator: there were many lines that did not end with ok.
Hoping that CloudMap can fill the #serverless inter-service discovery gap. #reinvent
“If you plan to register other cloud resources, such as DynamoDB tables by ARN or the URLs of the APIs deployed on Amazon API Gateway...”
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloud-map-easily-create-and-maintain-custom-maps-of-your-applications/
Replying to @mweagle
Well, I suppose hope is not a strategy and @ben11kehoe you’re already on it 😀
https://twitter.com/ben11kehoe/status/1067951944444964865
Replying to @mweagle
Hope fading... The HealthCheck config doesn’t support either Lambda or CloudWatch Alert status as an indicator. Similar to HAProxy HTTP(S)/TCP.
https://godoc.org/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/servicediscovery#HealthCheckConfig
Replying to @mweagle
Well, that was quick. Understandably biased towards EKS/ECS/EC2/E* and probably can be (ab)used for #serverless, but doesn’t appear to fill the gap. `RegisterInstance` sort of gave it away...
https://godoc.org/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/servicediscovery#RegisterInstanceInput
The search continues...
The metrics will continue until backpressure improves.
Replying to @PaulDJohnston
Most definitely. Start with SAM & use the console to read-only understand.
Cleaning docs in preparation for deleting code following today’s #reinvent #serverless announcements.
https://gosparta.io/reference/archetypes/cloudwatch/#scheduled
If you can’t avoid it (failure), optimize to handle it (recovery). #ReInvent
RT @dbsmasher: @QuinnyPig @Werner Also I love making this huge audience see how complex all this magic is. For those in the back still thin…
S3: sustaining the illusion of durability from ephemeral everything with math.
Mai’s S3 and Werner’s opening are fantastic. #moar #reInvent
Replying to @mweagle
S3 is a tremendous service.
This is the #serverless day @morecobol has been waiting for. #reInvent
I can see usecases for Lambda Layers, backend optimization opportunities & opening up custom runtimes. A little concerned about more config & version skew though. #reInvent
Replying to @mweagle
Ref: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/
Well, that’s full circle back to Sparta v.0.0.0.
“The runtime bootstrap uses a simple HTTP based interface to get the event payload for a new invocation and return back the response from the function.”
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/
Hoping this tool comes in API form... #reInvent https://twitter.com/AWSreInvent/status/1068207902177947648
Replying to @richburroughs and @nicolefv
Happy cake day!
Given the substantial overlap, when should I use ALB over API-G? #paradoxOfChoice #reInvent
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/lambda-functions-as-targets-for-application-load-balancers/
Was expecting a bit more on @Edge during the keynote. #reInvent
RT @monkchips: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, GM of S3, on a Culture of Durabilty. “we’ve never lost a complete data center but we build our syste…
Replying to @chrismunns
Replying to @esh
That’s less than 48 hours from now! 😉
/cc @brianleroux
NICE! 🙌 https://twitter.com/NodeSource/status/1068212293912207360
Every time I see a “serverless is lock-in” argument:
If a referentially transparent function is your unit of lock-in then #serverless may not be right for you.
Svc. ecosystem & data gravity might lock you in, but the signature shouldn’t.
Sincerely, Former x-plat C++ developer
Replying to @fintanr
We could create a HN clone in a weekend. 🎤⬇️
The glorious COBOL future is coming. #reInvent
“One also needs processes to help...think, because systems have become far too complicated for the capabilities of any one person. Teamwork has become a necessity.”
Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/managing-and-engineering/9781119068594/c3c.xhtml
Replying to @IamStan
Ant...
Replying to @IamStan
The LambdaGate effort begins...
Replying to @systemalias
Agree. Even if we could reason about them, individuals have too much tacit knowledge that would prevent us from sharing that reasoning.
The difference I see is that the consequences of that collective construction misbehaving is now more widespread than a single remote machine.
Replying to @tmclaughbos and @code
Keep...`go`ing... 😉
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go
Replying to @tmclaughbos and @code
I’m here to help when you get there!
Wardrobe of @Patagonia and @nike makes a good match.
https://twitter.com/patagonia/status/1067829691220967426
RT @ben11kehoe: How long until Lambda Layers is the new npm, with all the attendant problems?
Evergreen tweet.
Also, today. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/984228690530713600
Shout out to @edyesed
Replying to @edyesed
Nope! The ever popular `s/false/true/g` change :)
RT @littleidea: the hardest problems in computer science are deciding what to build and helping people use it