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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A bit of fun with ChatGPT asking it to create a fun image of me based on what it knows about me. Annoyingly lots of back and forth as it said it wouldn’t generate an image of a public figure until I said “I am Lee Gilmore!!!” 😅

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I would love to be able to communicate with AWS Kiro using natural language with a simple microphone button instead of typing all of the time, and can hear the responses back conversationally and not just in the chat window. Choosing the persona, too, would be cool! #AWS #Kiro

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I ran two polls on LinkedIn for 7 days to my 15K+ followers, and these were the results - Terraform pipped the AWS CDK when it came to go-to IaC frameworks. - TypeScript/NodeJS came out top for go-to language/frameworks. #AWS #Serverless #IaC

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#AWS North Community Conference is just over two weeks away! I’ll be speaking on "The CDK Mindset: Building Serverless Solutions as Repeatable Blueprints", and I am happy to be able to offer you access to 20% off using the discount code: LEE_SENT_ME northcommunityconf.com/speakers

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🌟 Issue #52 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This is one full year of the newsletter, and I am so thankful to all of the experts who have given their own time to support me and the wider community. A huge thank you from me! 💜 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/52-a-year-...

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Super excited to be speaking at the AWS North Community Conference, covering "The CDK Mindset: Building Serverless Solutions as Repeatable Blueprints" 🧩 👉 Explore the full agenda and get tickets here 🎟️ northcommunityconf.com #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

⭐ Issue #51 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/51-increme... This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder @tpschmidt.com, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Kate Gawron! 🏆 Please share! ♻️ #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Issue #50 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 🔥 This week, our serverless expert is AWS DevTools Hero Matthew Bonig, and our spotlight falls on AWS Specialist Developer Advocate Mike Chambers! Go check it out! open.substack.com/pub/serverle... #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Kynren was amazing last night! ⚔️ kynren.com

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Not the best score, but great to take my eldest to her first Newcastle United game tonight ⚽️

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier Well over 100 free detailed #AWS articles and GitHub repos with code examples on serverlessadvocate.com now I hope people find these useful 💜

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Serverless Rules CDK Nag Pack "How we can use the Serverless Rules Nag Pack in the AWS CDK, discussing the common findings from running against production apps." medium.com/@leejamesgil... #AWS #serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

🌟 Issue #48 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Robert Bulmer, and our spotlight falls on Serverless Author Mark McCann! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/48-serverl... Please subscribe & share! 🔔 #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

🌟 Issue #46 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Seth Orell, and our spotlight falls on AWS Senior Solutions Architect Urmila Raju! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/46-amazon-... Please subscribe & share! 🔔 #serverless #aws

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🌟 Issue #45 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Davide De Sio, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Daniele Frasca! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/45-aws-rea... #serverless #AWS

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hamilton this afternoon was out of this World..best theatre performance we have seen in years 🎭💜

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🌟 Issue #39 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Serverless Hero Ant Stanley & our spotlight falls on Cloud Dialogues Co-Host Georgia L. Smith! open.substack.com/pub/serverle... #AWS #Serverless #AI

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Amazon Bedrock AI Image Manipulation with Amazon Nova "Examples of using Amazon Bedrock for image generation, background removal, inpainting and outpainting, with full code examples in TypeScript and the AWS SDK." medium.com/@leejamesgil... #AWS #Serverless #AI

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Issue #38 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Senior Specialist Solution Architect Mark Sailes, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Victoria Demina! 🙌 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/38-life-be... #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Issue #37 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Matthew Wilson, and our spotlight falls on Senior Solutions Architect, Powertools for AWS, Andrea Amorosi! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/37-model-d... #serverless #AWS

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Issue #36 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Tycko Franklin, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Lee Priest! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/36-increas... #Serverless #AWS

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Amazon Bedrock AI Model Cross-Region Inference 🤖 "An example of using Amazon Bedrock AI Cross-Region Inference in our Serverless solutions, with an example in the AWS CDK and TypeScript." medium.com/@leejamesgil... #AWS #Serverless #awslambda

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hey friends 👋, I wanted to test out a POC for 'Amazon Cognito M2M Token Caching for Cost Optimisation & Performance 💸', where you can see the article below using the AWS CDK and Typescript: medium.com/@leejamesgil... #Serverless #AWS #Typescript

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🌟 Issue #35 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Elena van Engelen-Maslova and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Alessandro Volpicella! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/35-cheaper... #AWS #serverless #awslambda

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

⭐⭐⭐Just hit 100 patterns on serverlessadvocate.com ! ⭐⭐⭐ If you are interested in detailed AWS and Serverless articles and associated code repositories you can easily filter by services and patterns, please check it out! ✅ #AWS #Serverless #awslambda

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🌟 Issue #34 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Senior Specialist Solutions Architect Lee Hannigan, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Marco Troisi! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/34-mcp-eve... #AWS #serverless #awslambda

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🌟 Issue #33 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder @rootothez.bsky.social, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder @ryancormack.bsky.social ! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/33-resilie... #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

There are now 99 patterns on www.serverlessadvocate.com (almost the big 100!) which allows you to search for carefully curated #AWS and #Serverless patterns with both detailed articles and GitHub repositories to try out the code 🚀

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

No Lee... don't do it... no more AWS certs... stay away from Udemy...put the credit card down... ...Ohh go on then..one more won't hurt! 🤣😇

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Feedback like this makes it all worth while 💜 #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Who is attending AWS Summit London 2025? Let's Meet! 👋 I am looking to meet as many new and old friends as possible so please drop me a message if you would like to chat all things AWS, engineering and architecture! 💜 #AWS #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I must be at least 50% Italian at this point

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Issue #29 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our #serverless expert is AWS Principal Solutions Architect Ben Moses and our spotlight falls on AWS Head of Serverless Go-To-Market Emily Shea! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/28-embrace... Please subscribe and share! 🔔

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🌟 Issue #28 of the #Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Christian Bonzelet and our spotlight falls on AWS Serverless Hero Angela Timofte!🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/28-faster-... Please subscribe and share! 🔔 #AWS

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

No better sweater to be wearing today! 🙌🏽💜 #aws #Serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In my opinion there is no better feeling than getting your architecture ideas down on paper when in ideation mode 🧠🖊️ There is just something about that pen hitting paper or a whiteboard 💜

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🌟 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 #26 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐮𝐭! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Danny Steenman, and our spotlight falls on AWS Head of Modern Compute Community Farrah Campbell! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/26-aws-nor... #aws #serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My last day of vacation and two great books I read, one of which I picked up at the amazing Barter Books in Alnwick which is a beautiful book store in an old Victorian railway station 📚🚂

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Super excited to be helping organise the first one-day AWS community conference in the North East on the 16th of October 2025 in Newcastle, ‘AWS North’, where we already have some fantastic international speakers lined up! 💜 Check it out below! www.linkedin.com/posts/lee-ja... #AWS #serverless

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

What a fantastic event Serverless Days Manchester has been! 🙌🏽 Kudos to the amazing organisers! It’s been great to play a small part in this inaugural event with some great speakers 🎤 #serverless #aws #sdm25

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🌟 Issue 20 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out now! 👇 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/20-powerto... This week, our serverless expert is AWS Serverless Tech Leader Joshua Kahn and our spotlight falls on AWS Lambda Powertools Specialist SA Leandro Damascena! Please share & subscribe!🔔

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It’s not just evolutionary architecture.. it’s ’evolutionary snowmen’! ☃️ 1 week later and our snowman is now a snow otter 🦦

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I have a confession to make… I code in black crocs 🐊

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🌟 Issue #19 or the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out now! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Serverless Hero @theburningmonk.com, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Benoît Bouré! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/19-learnin... Please share & subscribe! 🔔 #serverless #AWS

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Lee Gilmore @serverlessadvocate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

7am, 5 mile walk in the sleet 🌨️ This year I’m holding myself accountable to getting physically fitter

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