Serverless in The Cloud with Diamonds - Think FaaS Podcast

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

Tue, 01 Oct 2019

Special guest Sean Mare from the Gemological Institute of America discusses the serverless architecture GIA and Trek10 built for the high-stakes world of diamond grading.

You can hear more of Sean and GIA’s story at ServerlessConf in New York City.

Lambda Destinations: What We Learned the Hard Way

You might say it was about the journey, not the Destinations

Trek10's New Offering: Security Max

Security monitoring in AWS done right

The hidden cost of Lambda provisioned concurrency pricing

It's a quantum leap for serverless adoption, but a small compromise with Lambda's vision.

ServiceLens: A Visual Overview

Look at your architecture through Cloud Native lenses.

Notes on pre:Invent: Functionless Rising

AWS continues releasing new functionality so you can write less function code

Notes on pre:Invent: Internet of Things

AWS IoT Services and Software are now more accessible than ever.

Notes from pre:Invent: AWS parts the clouds with observability gains

AWS is finally giving developers the tools they need to understand and operate complex service-based workloads.

Notes on pre:Invent: Developer Experience

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

Security Profile of IoT Devices

How it is different, and how AWS IoT helps you adopt the best security approach

Examining how AWS builds their own serverless apps

No magic, just thorough execution.

ServerlessConf NYC 2019: everything you missed

It's all about business value.

Contact Center Ticket Automation with Amazon Connect, Lex and Lambda

Using serverless systems inside your Amazon Connect workflow can simplify and automate business processes.

Serverless in The Cloud with Diamonds - Think FaaS Podcast

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

Trek10 at ServerlessConf NYC

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Stack Splitting and Sharing

Sharing and managing resources between CloudFormation stacks

Step Functions: Control for Serverless Logic

Simplifying understanding for controlling serverless logic

Delete your SSH Keys and use AWS SSM

There are always problems with storing or sharing ssh keys, this is an elegant solution.

AWS Lambda Monitoring 101

Tips to help you ensure your team's lambda functions are monitored

My Linux instances are always up to date using AWS SSM

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

Awsume 4 Released

Updates to the most convenient assume-role helper!

Rap Battle! Serverless vs Containers - Think FaaS Podcast

Forrest responds to a Twitter challenge and drops some beats.

Capital One Breach: Key Takeaways to Better Secure Your AWS Environment

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

Ansible & CloudFormation for Complex Workflows

You got YAML in my YML. You got YML in my YAML. Ansible and CloudFormation provide different strokes for AWS automation

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.