Allen Helton

I'm still shocked this worked as well as it did 🤯

Thank you to our outstanding contributors Benoit Boure, Mohammed Izzy, @elbr.dev, @jameseastham.co.uk, and Khawaja Shams 💙

Ready, Set, Cloud! AppSync events got some much needed attention last week, plus some wonderful insights and thoughts from around the community.

Serverless Picks of the Week #143! Our serverless superhero is @dthompsondev.bsky.social, Director of Technology at This Dot and tremendous community advocate. Danny's ability to enable, inspire, and educate people is unrivaled💙. Thank you for everything, Danny!
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Is it, though?

What have I done to make this an article that Google thinks I would want to read?!? How do I undo this??

There's something both satisfying and annoying about using the last bag in a roll of trash bags 🤔

Of all the things that are surprisingly difficult, getting a tiny piece of shell out of a bowl of raw eggs reigns supreme 😠

WebSockets are hard. Fortunately, AppSync events made them easy... kinda.

There's a lot to real-time communication, and I'm all for higher and higher levels of abstraction. But as good as AppSync events is, I think we could have used a bit more 🌱
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Thank you to our wonderful contributors @julianwood.com, Paul Santus, Ben Smith, and @theburningmonk.com!

Ready, Set, Cloud! The community is resting after an intense week at AWS re:Invent, more than likely gearing up for some cool new projects in 2025.

Serverless Picks of the Week #142! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is Philipp Krenn, DA and community lead at Elastic! Philipp really understands the hard part of serverless data, and does a🔥job explaining it to others. Thank you for everything you do, Philipp 💙!
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I've found this to hold pretty true:
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Found in the family room at the current hospital we're at. I'm not crying, you're crying!

This is how my morning started out 😑

I'm kinda mad at myself that I haven't been using code-based diagramming tools like Mermaid for years. I always lose the original diagram and have to redraw it from scratch to make updates. But not with a code-based approach 🔥

It might look like I was a lot more enthusiastic about taking this picture, but I assure you the feelings were mutual 🤣💙

When building APIs, success messages are equally as important as error messages. This morning I said "𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨" and the response I got was simply "𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵." 😑

Was my rating saved? Was any action performed at all? When you're interacting with a human, you need more than a 200 OK.

Thank you to our contributors @ranthebuilder.cloud, Steve Sanders, @eyalestrin.bsky.social, @boyney123.bsky.social, @binaryheap.com, and Matt Palmer!

Special thanks to our sponsor, Depot 💙

Ready, Set, Cloud! So much happened at AWS re:Invent last week, but there was one clear winner that left everyone talking.

Serverless Picks of the Week #141! Our serverless🦸‍♂️is @marcbrooker.bsky.social, VP/distinguished engineer at
AWS! Marc has directly helped shape the serverless world as we know it in multiple ways. Thank you for everything you do, Marc!
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I feel like they are the smart parents that knew what was going to happen while we were the kids complaining. We weren't going to believe them even if they said the tech innovation was coming.

So they showed us instead 😂

Allen Helton on LinkedIn: This year's re:Invent in one word: 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. Unexpected in… This year's re:Invent in one word: 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. Unexpected in that I didn't even think I was going to go. Life has been sending me on a rollercoaster…

re:Invent was absolutely incredible but beyond all things, it was unexpected. I shared my thoughts on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/allenh...

Omg did that just happen

Come find @readysetcloud.io and I at booth 1870 and say hi! Also grab awesome momento and @believeinsls.bsky.social stickers and swag 🔥

NVM I left

Go to the community hub!

Found some rando's walking through the hall
@ajs.bsky.social

Thank you to our wonderful contributors @sheenbrisals.bsky.social, @binaryheap.com, Christian Nuss, Rob Bulmer, and @jordangonzalez.bsky.social!

Special thank you to our sponsor Depot 💙

Ready, Set, Cloud! AWS re:Invent has official begun! Let's cover the last of the fun pre:Invent announcements and look at some fantastic content from the community.

Serverless Picks of the Week #140! Our serverless🦸‍♂️ is Dave Hall, AWS training lead at Pfizer and AWS Community Builder. Dave is a wonderful resource for anything cloud related and a friendly face always willing to help. Thank you for everything, Dave!
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I'm so proud with how far this community has come in a year. WE HAVE AWARDS!!! 💙💙💙

By the way, we are 13 away from 1000 members on Discord, will you be the one that puts us over the top?

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