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    Security monitoring in AWS done right

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    AWS customer obsession trickles down to developer's quality of life.

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    No magic, just thorough execution.

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    It's all about business value.

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    How Trek10 and GIA brought serverless to the high-stakes world of diamond grading.

  • Trek10 at ServerlessConf NYC

    Don't miss the action -- register today

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    Managing updates for fleets of Linux EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager.

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    Updates to the most convenient assume-role helper!

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    Forrest responds to a Twitter challenge and drops some beats.

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    Several clients have asked us what they can do to help avoid a breach similar to the very public and recent Capital One breach.

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

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

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

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    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

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    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

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  • Serverless In Production - Think FaaS Podcast

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

  • 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

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  • 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!

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

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

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

  • CloudWatch: Deep Dive

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

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    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.

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  • ‘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'.

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    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.

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

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    Trek10 & Friends Take 3 Prizes at IoT Hackathon

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    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

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

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  • DynamoDB Auto Scaling - Open Sourced

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