I'm still shocked this worked as well as it did 🤯

Serverless Picks of the Week #143! Our serverless superhero is @dthompsondev.bsky.social, Director of Technology at This Dot and tremendous community advocate. Danny's ability to enable, inspire, and educate people is unrivaled💙. Thank you for everything, Danny! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

Is it, though?

What have I done to make this an article that Google thinks I would want to read?!? How do I undo this??

There's something both satisfying and annoying about using the last bag in a roll of trash bags 🤔

Of all the things that are surprisingly difficult, getting a tiny piece of shell out of a bowl of raw eggs reigns supreme 😠

WebSockets are hard. Fortunately, AppSync events made them easy... kinda. There's a lot to real-time communication, and I'm all for higher and higher levels of abstraction. But as good as AppSync events is, I think we could have used a bit more 🌱 www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.h...

Serverless Picks of the Week #142! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is Philipp Krenn, DA and community lead at Elastic! Philipp really understands the hard part of serverless data, and does a🔥job explaining it to others. Thank you for everything you do, Philipp 💙! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/142

Found in the family room at the current hospital we're at. I'm not crying, you're crying!

This is how my morning started out 😑

I'm kinda mad at myself that I haven't been using code-based diagramming tools like Mermaid for years. I always lose the original diagram and have to redraw it from scratch to make updates. But not with a code-based approach 🔥

It might look like I was a lot more enthusiastic about taking this picture, but I assure you the feelings were mutual 🤣💙

When building APIs, success messages are equally as important as error messages. This morning I said "𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨" and the response I got was simply "𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵." 😑 Was my rating saved? Was any action performed at all? When you're interacting with a human, you need more than a 200 OK.

Serverless Picks of the Week #141! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is @marcbrooker.bsky.social, VP/distinguished engineer at AWS! Marc has directly helped shape the serverless world as we know it in multiple ways. Thank you for everything you do, Marc! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

re:Invent was absolutely incredible but beyond all things, it was unexpected. I shared my thoughts on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/allenh...

Omg did that just happen

Come find @readysetcloud.io and I at booth 1870 and say hi! Also grab awesome momento and @believeinsls.bsky.social stickers and swag 🔥

Found some rando's walking through the hall @ajs.bsky.social

Serverless Picks of the Week #140! Our serverless🦸‍♂️ is Dave Hall, AWS training lead at Pfizer and AWS Community Builder. Dave is a wonderful resource for anything cloud related and a friendly face always willing to help. Thank you for everything, Dave! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/140

I'm so proud with how far this community has come in a year. WE HAVE AWARDS!!! 💙💙💙 By the way, we are 13 away from 1000 members on Discord, will you be the one that puts us over the top? believeinserverless.com/community

This bathroom's GitHub contribution history is impressive

PSA: Don't give your friends edit permission to your slides 🤣

Here's a shot from my Thanksgiving day pardon yesterday. Everybody came out to watch 🐐🐓🦃🪿

As I loaded 300lbs of chicken feed into my Jeep, I was quickly reminded it was leg day this morning 🫠🫠🫠

I'm predicting that 2025 will have a lot of predictive AI pop up and I'm not sure I like the low key influence I'm about to be hammered with 😬

I'm looking for brainstorming partners to come up with a cool idea that tries out as many new re:Invent announcements as possible

I'm really looking forward to this today 😀

I'm going to be speaking at re:Invent Believe in Serverless has community talks with some amazing speakers. Tycko Franklin, @readysetcloud.io, Dave Hall, @focusotter.bsky.social , Khawaja Shams, Greg Olmstead, @ryancormack.bsky.social , @brianleroux.bsky.social and @andmoredev.bsky.social

Next Tuesday at re:Invent I'll be ranting about real-time communications and give my honest opinion on AppSync Events 😬 If you're a fan of quick-witted, brutally honest, and highly-opinionated chats, don't miss it the the AWS Community Lounge 🔥 Register here - remeet.tech/bis/allen-he...

They say the hallway track is always the best at re:Invent. We made it a little more structured this year 😍🤩

Serverless Picks of the Week #139 is here! Our serverless superhero is Suzana Melo Moraes, AWS Community Builder, UG leader, and full-stack dev. Suzana is a 🔥 speaker, covering a range of important development areas. Thank you for everything you do, Suzana! www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/1...

As an avid user of Step Functions, I'm so happy to see variables and JSONata support finally available! While this doesn't unlock a ton of new possibilities, it does simplify the complexity of state machines. Love this ❤️🔥 aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

Join us on Discord to hear about what the @believeinsls.bsky.social community has planned for re:Invent! This is a town hall event, so everyone is welcome to chime in with ideas and excitement! believeinserverless.com/community

Can you tell it's almost Thanksgiving?

Found a tricky issue yesterday with adding custom metrics with Lambda Powertools. If you're adding multiple metrics with different dimensions, be sure to call the `publishStoredMetrics` function before changing dimensions! Otherwise the last one wins.

Does anyone else feel the huge shift in attitude towards AWS with the great releases over the past week? I have good feelings about re:Invent 🔥

One of the fun unexpected side effects of my job and involvement with the tech community is the willingness of my wife to take pictures of me without getting a side eye or (audible) judgment. For example, today I said "can you help me look pregnant for a social promo?" 5 mins later...

Ever since we started raising a sustainable meat chicken flock alongside our egg chickens (totally a thing, look it up) every morning sounds like a rooster symphony and it cracks me up 😂

I made an automatic RSS feed with @andmoredev.bsky.social for the Believe in Serverless community a couple months ago that shares tech links from Discord. I'm thinking about updating that project to share links here on a community account to get my feet wet with the Bluesky API. Good idea?

As I'm working on my AppSync Events // Momento Topics benchmark, I'm learning how much goes into accurate benchmarking. Kudos to those of you who regularly do it, there's a lot more to this than I thought!