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dfirmenton The cloud scales faster than your budget (an interview with Corey Quinn)

use the comment section in hacker news to add all the stupid things back ... seems to be the perfect place

dfirmenton 6 lessons learned from going serverless

I'm curious why you'd think a serverless solution would be more expensive than traditional instances once you've exceeded the free tier limits. With Lambda, you are only charged based on the number of requests and their duration. The pricing model includes 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time for free every month. Thereafter, its $0.20 per 1M requests. Seems very cost-effective when compared to traditional server-based solutions.

dfirmenton Serverless Golang API with AWS Lambda

the example in the blog seems fairly straightforward -- low cost solution with minimal operations. not sure why anyone would want to replace that with instances, unless they enjoy maintaining and patching large surface areas (or has an ops team that does it for them)

dfirmenton Serverless Golang API with AWS Lambda

How to create a movie website using an AWS Lambda function written in Go — the latest language for serverless applications

dfirmenton The hidden costs of serverless

There are more costs to Serverless than just CPU and RAM — and for many users, the additional cost categories of API Requests, Storage and Networking will be the major cost drivers.

dfirmenton Fighting functions

a weekend fighting functions while trying to move a Flask application hosted on Elastic Beanstalk to AWS Lambda

dfirmenton Simon Wardley is a big fan of containers – despite what you might think

So in the short term, if it’s not a long-lasting project, pick what you’re comfortable with. If it’s containers, that’s fine.

But longer-term, I’d be investing my time in learning about serverless practices. Because that’s where the future is.

dfirmenton The difference between managed infrastructure and managed code

Part of the problem is that people are conflating the application notion of a server which is about software — with the infrastructure notion of a server which is about instances and/or heavyweight proper VMs.

dfirmenton How I built a self-driving robot race car

Learn how a Robocar Rally racing team built an autonomous model car in 12 hours from start to finish

dfirmenton How serverless scales an idea to 100K monthly users at zero cost

Over the same 30-day period, the Alexa skills have invoked the related AWS Lambda functions over 1M times.All the Lambda functions share the same AWS account and each function is allocated 512MB of memory and configured with a 7 second timeout.

dfirmenton The gospel of dogfooding. Can I hear an Amen, brother?

Don’t you dare inflict the software, the service, the product onto your customers until you have forced your own employees to use it to get their work done, until you’ve bet your own company, your own employees’ success, on its quality. Put your money where your mouth is. Eat your own dog food.

dfirmenton The challenges of blue/green deployment with AWS Lambda and CloudFormation

Fundamentally, versioned Lambda code doesn’t feel like it belongs in CloudFormation. In the end, the set of versions of a Lambda function is probably going to look like a replica of your repository history.

dfirmenton How serverless reduced a startups cost by 70%

focused on converting our services into AWS Lambda functions and workflows into Step Functions