• Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda itself

    A bold statement, but it's based on a few years of building production level serverless systems here at Trek10.

  • CloudFormation Nested Stacks Primer

    The limitless potential of CloudFormation is yours to wield following the nested stacks practices.

  • Serverless Smells - Think FaaS Podcast

    Developing an intuition for serverless designs that just don't feel quite right.

  • Enterprise CI/CD on AWS: a pragmatic approach

    How can we work within the constraints of a large organization to develop CI/CD flows that help us deploy applications quickly, safely, and accountably on AWS?

  • Getting serverless right the first time

    We're excited to announce Trek10's Developer Acceleration program. These 2-3 day engagements put our leading AWS and serverless experts in the room right alongside your development team.

  • Serverless in the Brownfield - Think FaaS Podcast

    The reality is that most of the world's problems aren't brand new. They're legacy.

  • DynamoDB Pricing: OnDemand, Autoscaled, Provisioned, or Reserved?

    The most flexible database doesn't stop at just the data

  • DevOps to FinDev - Think FaaS Podcast

    What should the finance department and the engineering org have in common, and why is serverless a catalyst for this transformation?

  • Bursting the Serverless Bubble - Think FaaS Podcast

    Special guest Yan Cui joins Forrest to discuss serverless adoption challenges and goals in 2019.

  • Serverless In Production - Think FaaS Podcast

    Yan Cui joins Forrest to share best practices for running serverless apps at production scale.

  • Fargate Pricing in Context

    We simply can't contain ourselves.

  • From relational DB to single DynamoDB table: a step-by-step exploration

    Just because it's NoSQL, doesn't mean it's non-relational

  • Removing Excess IAM Access with AWS Config

  • Real-world use cases for our favorite re:Invent 2018 announcements

  • DevOps for Serverless Applications

  • Making Legacy Databases Into Event Sources for Serverless

  • The Future of FaaS - Think FaaS Podcast

    AWS has changed the maximum time of a Lambda function from five to fifteen minutes, but we're not so easily thwarted.

  • Serverless Workflows for the Enterprise

  • The Business Case For Serverless

  • Scaling a Serverless Chatbot - Think FaaS Podcast

    Recorded live at A Cloud Guru's ServerlessConf in San Francisco, here's a special Think FaaS episode from Botcopy's Mike Sylvester.

  • The Irony of Server-Side-Rendered Serverless - Think FaaS Podcast

    Recorded live at A Cloud Guru's ServerlessConf in San Francisco, here's a special Think FaaS episode from Atlassian Statuspage's Ellie Day.

  • CloudWatch: Custom Metrics Deep Dive

  • High Performance With Serverless - Think FaaS Podcast

    Recorded live at A Cloud Guru's ServerlessConf in San Francisco, here's a special Think FaaS episode from Walmart Labs engineer Leslie Pajuelo.

  • Serverless For Robots - Think FaaS Podcast

    Recorded live at A Cloud Guru's ServerlessConf in San Francisco, here's a special Think FaaS episode from Cloudreach developer Emily Young.

  • Going All-In With Serverless - Think FaaS Podcast

    Recorded live at A Cloud Guru's ServerlessConf in San Francisco, here's a special Think FaaS episode from Indevelo cofounder James Beswick.

  • The Non-Dev Who Codes (Serverless-ly) - Think FaaS Podcast

    Recorded live at A Cloud Guru's ServerlessConf in San Francisco, here's a special Think FaaS episode from growth hacker Andrea Passwater.

  • How To Win Coworkers And Influence Organizations For Serverless - Think FaaS Podcast

    In the wake of ServerlessConf, here's a special condensed version of Forrest and Jared's main stage talk, just for Think FaaS listeners!

  • S3 Permissions

  • Serverless in Summer 2018 - Think FaaS Podcast

    Let's look at the serverless landscape and changes we've seen!

  • Serverless Best Practices: Operations - Think FaaS Podcast

    You've also heard some of the buzzwords in this area like structured logging, tracing, observability, anomaly detection... let's talk ops.

  • Serverless Best Practices: Testing - Think FaaS Podcast

    Forrest answers listener questions about testing serverless applications and breaks down some ways to streamline your test workflow in the cloud.

  • CloudWatch: Deep Dive

  • Serverless Best Practices: Security - Think FaaS Podcast

    Serverless has huge strengths in the area of security. Forrest has some best practices to put that natural advantage to work for you.

  • Think FaaS Live at ServerlessConf San Francisco

    Meet the awesome community members who will share Think FaaS lightning talks at ServerlessConf SF.

  • ‘Serverless Project Best Practices - Project Layout’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Our topic for this episode is laying out a Serverless project and what we have seen work well in the real world for Trek10 and our clients.

  • Detecting AWS Cost Anomalies

  • All The Metrics - A Cloud Monitoring Blueprint

  • ‘Reasons Not To Serverless’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Serverless is not a silver bullet. Forrest explains several edge cases where serverless computing doesn't (yet) make sense, and introduces the principle of 'least compute possible'.

  • I Buy a New Work Machine Every Day

  • Manage Your AWS Greengrass Lambda Functions with SAM

    The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) makes deploying your Lambda code to Greengrass a snap.

  • ‘Serverless Service Discovery’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Forrest helps you navigate the murky waters of service discovery for serverless apps in AWS (and learn why Lambda environment variables can be so dangerous)!

  • Is AWS Fargate "Serverless"?

  • ‘Five Serverless Fallacies (And How To Avoid Them)’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Forrest looks past the hype to provide real talk on 'walled gardens', scalability, and more common misperceptions about serverless technologies.

  • ‘Why We're Excited About AWS AppSync’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Forrest breaks down AWS AppSync, the death of the 'middle tier', and the future of back-end development in the serverless world.

  • Trek10 & Friends Take 3 Prizes at IoT Hackathon

    Trek10 & Friends Take 3 Prizes at IoT Hackathon

  • ‘View from the AWS SF Summit’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    AWS had about 9,000 people in house, a packed expo hall, and a whole slate of new feature and service announcements for the San Francisco Summit. Let's break down some key takeaways.

  • ‘Serverless Use Cases: The REST of the Story’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Serverless is often used hand in hand with building APIs whether they be RESTful, GraphQl, or what have you. While this is a typical use case, let's look at other useful ways we can leverage serverless.

  • ‘Zip It and Ship It: Serverless Deployments on AWS’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Serverless gets touted as faster and easier than traditional web development. But in the real world, the process for building and deploying a serverless app can get a little painful.

  • Trek 10 - AWS Partner Network Video

  • ‘The Cost of Doing Business’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    If you want to go serverless, you have to show why it helps your business win. And one way we can answer that question, not the only way, is by looking at cost.

  • ‘We Can't Contain Ourselves’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Are containers dead, is FaaS a fad? It's a confusing world out there, with new abstractions for containers and container management only being out paced by the the releases of JavaScript frameworks.

  • Enforcing the 'Two-Person Rule' with AWS CodePipeline (UPDATED)

    Do you have manual approval gates in your CI/CD pipeline? Let's see if AWS CodePipeline can automate that.

  • ‘Deploying Your Serverless Team’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    How do you build the kind of team that will set your serverless projects up for success? What does a serverless team look like.

  • ‘Ops, I Did it Again’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    If you are an ops person your job is fighting fires, and keeping the lights on. What does serverless mean for you?

  • Datadog Event Mapping

  • ‘State of the State’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    You'll often hear that FaaS functions are stateless. While this is somewhat true, there are caveats that can get you in to trouble in a hurry if you aren't aware of them.

  • ‘Talkin' Lock-In’ - Think FaaS Podcast

    Vendor lock in. Scary words. You'll hear people hyperventilate about this on cloud in general and serverless in particular. So should you be concerned?

  • Serverless Architectures: IoT

  • 3 Big Security Concerns and 1 Solution

  • Operationalizing Serverless: Five Key Considerations

  • AWS S3 Permissions to Secure your S3 Buckets and Objects

  • 2 Minute Tip: Dead Letter Configs in Serverless

  • Regional Endpoints for API Gateway and Active Active Serverless

  • 2 Minute Tip: Easily Encrypt AWS AMI Root EBS Volumes

  • Our Approach to IAM Escalation

  • Amazon Web Services: Disaster Recovery

  • Introducing Live Debugging in AWS Lambda

  • A Big Step Forward for Trek10

  • Trek10 Selects Regional Executive as CEO

  • Improving the Improved AWS Force MFA Policy for IAM Users

  • Josh von Schaumburg selected as a member of TechPoint's Tech 25 Class of 2017

  • AWSume - Now in Python!

  • Making CI easier with GitLab

  • Trek10 Announces Support for AWS Greengrass

  • What is the Difference Between Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated Instances on AWS?

  • AWS Data Ingestion Cost Comparison: Kinesis, AWS IOT, & S3

  • DynamoDB Auto Scaling - Open Sourced

  • 2 Minute Tip: Schedule Calling Webhooks with Cron Like Syntax in AWS Lambda

  • Using Lambda and Datadog to Monitor VNS3 IPsec Tunnels

  • How Reliable is Lambda Cron?

  • Stateless Doesn't Mean No State!

  • Lambda Error Hound: Chase Down Serverless Log Messages

  • A Look at Serverless GraphQL

  • CloudFormation YAML is here, and it's awesome

  • Serverless Architectures: S3 Data Loading

  • AWS Lambda Pricing in Context - A Comparison to EC2

  • Building the Architecture for Pokémon Go in AWS

  • What is Serverless and Why Does it Matter?

  • AWSume for Windows

  • Serverless Secrets

  • DynamoDB Auto Scaling - The Serverless Way

  • Cleaning up old Docker images from ECR, the easy way

  • AWSume: AWS Assume Made Awesome

  • SSL Certificates... For Free!

  • Introducing LambdaClock

  • Lambda Fanout, What is it Good For?

  • Serverless Framework for Processes, Projects, and Scale

  • Using Roles to Secure Your Environment: Part 2

  • Ops in a Serverless World

  • Using Roles to Secure Your Environment: Part 1

  • Running in One AWS Region is a Design Choice!

  • Trek10 Achieves Docker Certification

  • Trek10 now AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and Docker Authorized Consulting Partner

  • Webinar Recording: Managing Docker Containers with Amazon EC2 Container Service

  • Static Websites for a Better Tomorrow

  • Strong Passwords and LastPass: Part 2

  • Strong Passwords and LastPass: Part 1

  • Innovation Park at Notre Dame Recognizes the Transition of Trek10

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  • HTTPS Everywhere

  • The Misunderstood t2 Instance Type

  • Developers Heart Cloud Infrastructure

  • High availability On AWS: Are You Prepared?

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  • Our Experience at the AWS Annual Sales Kickoff

  • Big Trends from Las Vegas!

  • The Power of Amazon Redshift

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