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Comment by rdoherty | Hacker News Reader

Sounds like you have some good tips for using Lambda, got any links or posts on them?

I've been using Lambda since the beginning (was an early private beta user). I am actually considering writing a book or perhaps some courseware. I don't blog. Unfortunately, if I do I cannot post it here as it would defeat the purpose of using a throw-away account :(

I am publishing a book in the following months that covers all the items you mention, IAM, fully Cloudformation, deployment with Gradle etc. The language I picked is Java because we thought with the publisher that Java at Lambda has very little written resources. If you are interested here is the link and if you pre-order it you can access to finished chapters already:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Serverless-Architectures-C...

Awesome. I'm not a Java guy but I'll take a look.

Off-topic question: Why do people use throwaway accounts here on HN? Why is it so important that nobody knows who the real person behind posts is?

Can't speak for parent. For me, I don't care if people know the real person behind the post. But I don't want someone to be able to see a list of everything I have ever said. And unfortunately there is no way to do one without the other.

Just like everyday conversation. I can speak without anonymity. But I would hate for someone to go look at some of the things I said 20 years ago.

I understand that. I don't really mind though, because

a) most people will never put in that effort to search my history and

b) I trust that I will be able to find a proper excuse/response to anyone who would "attack me with my written history"

Same here.

Because the information people give away is more important than their identity.

Your throwaway has 1500 karma?

Yeah. I guess anonymous is a better word than "throw away" at this point.

Or even pseudonymous. You've posted enough to have established a reputation and personality. It's a name, just not your real one.

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