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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I've pre-ordered something shiny Who knows what it is? - wrong answers only #BuyYourselfSomethingPretty

Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

AWS Solution Architect Pro means 💩 You need the skills to back it up. AWS often sells the dream of "get certified and you'll be ready to be a solution architect" People then rote learn the answers and slap it on their CV. But this fails at interview 👇 🧵

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Great code is both easy to understand and performant I saw a post suggesting you should never use a reduce function - it's too complicated to understand - if your engineers can't understand a reduce function, why did you hire them? - if you want to make your code more readable, use name functions.

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yesterday I told you how to avoid Serverless costs But there is one thing that most people forget Developers are EXPENSIVE $$$ Lets say you pay a developer $50/hr You have a single Lambda that costs $100/month

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Serverless can cause your AWS costs to explode 5 top causes and how to fix them 1. Memory Mismatches = Money Down the Drain - Over-provisioning RAM? You're burning cash - Under-provisioning? Less CPU power = slow execution = higher costs - Fix: Monitor + right-size your Lambdas

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I've been quiet on here for the last month. The new job has been intense. What I'm going to be talking about over the next few months: - Amazon Connect - Bedrock / Amazon Q - startup culture, how we're building our team, the wins and losses. And of course how Serverless fits into all of this!

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My 2024 review. Lot of ups and downs but here's the key things.

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Had an awesome day at the ServerlessDays Rome. Great talks, interesting discussions and some new friends made #serverless #serverlessdays #rome

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

AWS is sometimes behind the times. Content is one of those areas. My YouTube channel has had over 4000 unique users watch a video in the last 28 days. Yet AWS prefer to pump money into meetups and user groups. Those things are great and super valuable, but they get 30-50 people max per month.

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm starting to plan my 2025, are there any conferences in Europe that you're looking forward to? I'm looking for suggestions for conferences to apply to and talk about AWS and serverless. Let me know which conferences you are going to in 2025 #aws #serverless

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It was great meeting up with Brian and chatting about what he's up to

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Awesome when the OG legend of serverless books a meeting with you. Looking forward to catching up Yan Cui If you're at #reinvent24 and want to catch up, book a chat with me on re:meet #aws #serverless

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

When you spend an hour debugging a JWT decryption - testing different secrets - adding millions of logs Then you realise it decrypted perfectly and my own code errored the line after that #code

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Believe in Serverless @believeinsls.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Great news! We have 10 community members delivering sessions at Buddy V's restaurant at re:Invent next week 🔥 You can check out the full listing and register to attend on our site - believeinserverless.com/reinvent

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm going to be speaking at re:Invent Believe in Serverless has community talks with some amazing speakers. Tycko Franklin, @readysetcloud.io, Dave Hall, @focusotter.bsky.social , Khawaja Shams, Greg Olmstead, @ryancormack.bsky.social , @brianleroux.bsky.social and @andmoredev.bsky.social

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Why does the reinvent planner not have away to export thing to Google calendar? It's not that hard but would be so much better

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

2 more updates to re:Meet today 1) Share Profile by social 2) Events #aws #reinvent #remeet

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Financial literacy is awful in so many people Even the ones you think are smart. This is what I would tell them:

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

2 updates to re:Meet Chat & Custom url handles

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Such an awesome feeling when you jump on a client call and can solve one of their issues within the first 5 minutes of a call

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just got a Pixel 8a in the black Friday discounts. My god is that phone heavy. Going from my 3a (147g) to this (188g) is craxy. and it's only 1mm taller and 2mm wider! Anyone else got it and found it heavy?

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

re:Meet gets Live chat It took less than a day to build and I think it'll be super useful It's built using Momento topics but I've not seen anyone else add persistent storage to live chat with it so far. Video will be coming soon on how I built this whole app! #aws #serverless #remeet

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Yesterday I failed 👎 At lunch I said I would try and build a live chat by the end of the day. It turns out that 4.5 hours wasn't enough time. I got the UI and the APIs built, but couldn't get the Momento topics done in time.

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Want the easiest way to add events to your users' calendars? const url = `https:// calendar.google.com/ calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE &dates=202412${date}T${time}00Z%2F202412${date}T${endTime}00Z &details=${description}&location=${venue}&text=${title}`; Then open the url in a new tab.

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You can now add your re:meetings to your calendar! Just go into your availability, click on a meeting and then 'Add to Google Calendar'. This was a highly requested feature so great to get it done this morning. #reinvent #aws #remeet

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Sam Williams @serverlesssam.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

re:Meet is live! Make the most of re:Invent and grow your network between sessions Find experts and other attendees who are free between sessions and grow your network. remeet.tech #reinvent #aws

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