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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I wrote a new post talking about this and other ways I've been keeping up on AI while on maternity leave, including my experience with the AWS AI Practitioner certification and the AI newsletters I've been enjoying: emshea.com/post/ai-lear...

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Keeping a pulse on AI while on leave

During my maternity leave I've tried not to take on too much that's not baby related, and I've certainly been glad for it! One thing that I have prioritized, though, is learning about and building wit...

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's obviously possible to get way more done with way less time than before, but it's also so much easier to pick up my train of thought after (many) interruptions. It's been delightful to tick things off my own personal backlog, including a UI update to my blog.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I had assumed that coding side projects, as one of my most time intensive hobbies, would definitely be on pause after having a baby. Instead, I've been pleasantly surprised to find that agentic coding tools feel like they were designed for my new limited, scattered free time.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year! 🎇 Looking forward to a great 2025! Reflecting on learning, books, and travel in 2024: emshea.com/post/2024-in...

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2024 in review

Looking back on 2024!

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here’s a great recap of serverless launches from @ranthebuilder.cloud: www.ranthebuilder.cloud/post/aws-re-... And we’ve got even more exciting things in the works for serverless in 2025! See you next year 🚀

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AWS re:Invent 2024: My Serverless Takeaways

AWS re:Invent 2024 exciting new services and features launched from a Serverless developer perspective.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I always leave #AWSre:Invent feeling energized! It’s such a great week getting the product launches and session content that we’ve been hard at work on all year in the hands of customers.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

However, this can prove challenging if the process to deploy serverless services is a lengthy ticketing process or through a disjointed toolset. We're seeing K8s platform teams give developers the best of both worlds by using ACK and the newly launched kro (Kubernetes resource operators)! 🐦‍⬛

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Christina Andonov, Giedrius Praspaliauskas, and I spoke on how we see Kubernetes platform teams looking to give development teams access to the technology choice best suited to their workload and team, including serverless services.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Continuing with the theme of "right tool for the right job," my second re:Invent session this week was on deploying AWS serverless services with Kubernetes APIs! ☸️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmJG...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Kubernetes meets Serverless: Deploy EDAs with Kubernetes APIs (API308)

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Anna Spysz @annaspies.dev · 03/12/2024

In the flurry of #reinvent announcements, you may have missed two awesome features I had the honor of working on with my team: CloudWatch’s Explore related telemetry and AWS Resource Explorer Relationships 🧵

CloudWatch topology map showing S3 bucket resources in an AWS account

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

2/ Decision-making considerations like operational models, integrations, portability, usage patterns, and pricing 3/ Examples where customers have chosen containers, serverless functions, or both! Are you making these decisions for your workloads? We would love to hear what you think!

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The theme of both my #AWSre:Invent talks this year has been "right tool for the right job" 🛠️ Max and my talk on choosing containers or serverless functions takes you through: 1/ The fundamental differences in containers and serverless functions... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXZ...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Containers or serverless functions: A path for cloud-native success (SVS209)

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#AWSreinvent Day 1! 🚀 I got lucky with both of my breakout sessions on Monday, including this one on choosing containers or serverless functions (or both!)

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thanks for coming to the talk! 😀

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

EventBridge and Step Functions + private APIs! 🚀 Particularly excited about this one and what it opens up for building event driven flows between applications, no matter where they are! I also appreciate that it renders my workaround blog post on this topic obsolete! 😄

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Calling all Amazon ECS developers that are going to be at reInvent! Let me buy you breakfast! The ECS team is looking to have a sit down and learn about how you develop on ECS. We want to know what is working and what needs improvement. DM me if you are interested and I'll get you an invitation!

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Yan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 25/11/2024

Here are the biggest pre:Invent serverless announcements so far and my thoughts on them, why they are important, pitfalls to look out for, etc. theburningmonk.com/2024/11/best...

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Biggest pre:Invent 2024 serverless announcements

Learn to build production-ready serverless applications on AWS

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you didn't catch it before, AWS Step Functions now supports #JSONata for querying data in states. Learn more: youtu.be/kVWxJoO_zc8?...

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Using JSONata In AWS Step Functions

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Yan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 25/11/2024

New video: Domain Driven Design (DDD) explained in 3 minutes So often, a "bounded context" is (mis)used to mean a "service". I hope this video clears things up!

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Domain Driven Design (DDD) explained in 3 minutes

This is a preview lesson from my upcoming workshop, "Production-Ready Serverless". If you liked this, then please check out the full curriculum at https://pr...

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Yan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 18/11/2024

Wow, SnapStart is now available for Python and .Net functions. Interesting they didn't do it for Node, I guess it's not about popularity, there must be something about Node that doesn't work well with SnapStart 🤔 aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...

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AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available | Amazon Web Services

AWS Lambda SnapStart boosts Python and .NET functions' startup times to sub-second levels, often with minimal code changes, enabling highly responsive and scalable serverless apps.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You can find our session in the re:Invent catalog here: registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Excited for this re:Invent talk on one of my favorite topics - bringing together the best of AWS serverless and Kubernetes! ☸️ Christina, Giedrius, and I will share how we're seeing platform teams enable developers to deploy serverless applications using Kubernetes APIs and tools.

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Yan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 19/11/2024

In case you're looking for serverless people on here, I made a starter pack for you. go.bsky.app/PmjTiyJ

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Darryl Ruggles @darryl-ruggles.cloud · 18/11/2024

medium.com/@gabrielsoll... Using Github Actions & workflows for your CI/CD pipelines and automation tasks is a great idea. (1/3) 🧵

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DevOps w/ Amazon ECS and Github Actions

This document covers the best way I found for deploying software to Amazon ECS automatically with Github Actions — procedure, safety…

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🚀 Issue 11 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out now! This week, our Serverless expert of the week is Darryl Ruggles, and our spotlight falls on AWS DevTools Hero Matthew Bonig! 🎉 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/11-happy-1... #AWS #Serverless

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New blog post on ten years of AWS Lambda, and some thoughts on the Lambda PRFAQ: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/11...

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Ten Years of AWS Lambda - Marc's Blog

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Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com · 27/10/2024

Hello 🦋 Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed! go.bsky.app/U1hZhum

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

You can check out a serverless star studded Serverless Office Hours with @julianwood.com and @edjgeek.bsky.social and stories from the last decade of what customers have been building with serverless here: aws.amazon.com/serverless/1... ⭐

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10 Years of Serverless with AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS

AWS Serverless enables customers to move faster from idea to application and business value.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This week, Lambda & ECS are celebrating 10 years! 🥳 I spoke about what building serverless means in 2024 at mine and Tom Collins's Serverless Days Cardiff keynote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJU0...

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Justin Callison @callison.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We love to talk about new features, but it’s awesome to share work on what we call fundamentals. Enormous amount of passion and engineering innovation to drive these #eventbridge latency improvements that open up more use cases for #eventdrivenarchitectures on #aws ! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

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Amazon EventBridge announces up to 94% improvement in end-to-end latency for Event Buses - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon EventBridge announces up to 94% improvement in end-to-end latency for Event Buses

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 13/11/2024

🚀🎂🔟Happy 10th Birthday AWS Lambda! One of the most impactful cloud services was announced by @jeff-barr.com and @werner.social today in 2014! The event-driven model became the start of #serverless.

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Another good one: bsky.app/profile/anna...

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I have never "followed all" so fast: go.bsky.app/ExbRCz5

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Favorites so far: go.bsky.app/DatZhiS

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Emily Shea @emshea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Excited to see the mass move to Bluesky! 🦋 Starter packs are awesome.

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

200+ Subscribers to the Serverless Advocate newsletter, thousands of views, and growing at a fast pace! 💜 > Expert of the Week interview > Latest News > Service Updates > Weekly Polls > And more Please feel free to share and subscribe 🔔 substack.com/@serverlessa... #serverless #AWS #awsreinvent

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Serverless Advocate | Substack

Welcome to the Serverless Advocate Newsletter! Here, you can enjoy getting weekly updates on the latest news, articles, and events around serverless, cloud-native technologies, architecture, engineeri...

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Here’s my women in AI starter pack, to help bring some diversity to your feed go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg

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Yan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 11/11/2024

Ever questioned how much info you should pack in your events? Here are the pros & cons of each approach, and when to use which. theburningmonk.com/2024/11/when...

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When to use Light Events vs. Rich Events in Event-Driven Architectures

Understand the differences between light events and rich events in Event-Driven Architecture. Learn when to use each approach.

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Julian Wood @julianwood.com · 11/11/2024

This week, we celebrate 10 years of ECS & Lambda! Join @edjgeek.bsky.social and me on #Serverless Office Hours tomorrow. We talk to Jeff Barr, Ajay Nair, Nick Coult, Usman Khalid, Malcolm Featonby and MORE about the past, present, and future of ECS and Lambda! youtube.com/live/AJaJk9I...

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