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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're continuing our series talking about well architected pillars.  Today, we're going to talk about the Performance Pillar which is called performance efficiency.  It's got four sections: Selection, Review, Monitoring, and Trade Offs. It is really about the performance efficiency of your whole system. There are five questions about selection. The k...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode the team continue their conversation on the well architected framework with the Reliability Pillar.  It has 4 sections: foundations, workload architecture, change management, and failure management. If you're building in a traditional way then reliability can be a huge amount of work. But we're serverless heads. AWS make it a lot easier to do some of thes...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we're continuing our series looking at each of the pillars of the well architected framework. We talked about the operational excellence pillar in the last episode. We're going to talk about security this time which is our favourite well architected pillar. There are 10 questions for this pillar and a couple of different sections. The well architected security...

Send us Fan Mail The team talk about serverless and security.  Sometimes there's a CISO who doesn't want to touch Serverless because they believe it's not secure. Is serverless more secure or less secure? We've talked in previous sessions about rapid delivery and the fact that we're assembling or aggregating various components or managed services together to form a product...

Send us Fan Mail There's been a lot of good conversation about well architected and the well architected framework. And we've written about this in the blog: well architected and SCORP or SCORPS, which is the five and now six pillars of well architected.  So we figured we'd do operational excellence first,  the AWS pillar breaks down into three areas. Each area has five or six quest...

Send us Fan Mail The team looks at clarity of purpose and the North Star Framework and why orgs don't understand the reasons behind transformation or trying to improve and the fact that it's not based on core understanding of purpose for why you doing the things you're doing.   Businesses talk about wanting to corner the market or drive up the rate of business. But the broader organ...

Send us Fan Mail Dave, Mark and Mike talk about Rapid Delivery this week: There's been a lot of chat recently about serverless and speed. And something that we've been talking about for many years is Rapid Delivery.  Serverless isn't faster, but Serverless First feeds rapid delivery. A lot of people, when they hear 'Serverless' just think 'Function'. But Serverle...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Anderson, Mark McCann and Mike O'Reilly about sustainability. After doing a lot of reading and writing about sustainability and cloud compute and through the influence of COP 26 the team discuss the how sustainability is now at the top of the agenda.  Even Simon Wardley is calling for AWS to bring out carbon cost per lambda execution. Will this be announced at AWS re:Inv...

Send us Fan Mail Mark McCann and Mike O'Reilly chat to Dave Anderson about AWS re:Invent 2021. Watch to find out their take on Matt Coulter's speech as part of Werner Vogels keynote, how Serverless and CDK is becoming part of the mainstream as well as the announcement on CDK Patterns Version 2. Sustainability has been the hot ticket item o AWS re:Invent - you saw that prediction here fir...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to welcome our guest, Matt Coulter @NI Developer, recently awarded the 'Now Go Build' award by Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent 2021.  Matt is founder of CDK Patterns and published author of the CDK Book available on thecdkbook.com.  He is an Architect for Liberty Mutual, an AWS DevTools Hero and Serverless Architect sharing reusable, well architected, ser...

Send us Fan Mail Dave, Mark and Mike discuss Dave's 'Adaptation - the Value Flywheel' talk at Map Camp 2021. In this episode they work through Wardley Mapping as a concept demonstrating an example that Simon Wardley uses when mapping serverless as a concept. They then move on to Dave's talk at Map Camp which develops the concept further through the use of the Value Flywheel.  T...

Send us Fan Mail Dave, Mark and Mike discuss their best bits from the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2021, IT Revolution. They also review their talk on the Serverless Value Flywheel.  Overall the talks were practical with participants describing their digital transformation journeys in an open way, revealing the lessons they have learned.  Here are quick links to themes, tools and techniques that the g...