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AWS Firecracker ... "powering multiple high-volume AWS services including AWS Lambda" ...

Repeat after me, the future of containers are invisible subsystems, the future of containers are invisible subsystems ...

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/fire…
X : What do you think of AWS Firecracker?
Me : It's a shibboleth. One faction of people will go "just use Lambda". Another faction will go "Yeah, let's build our own Lambda. Pass the tequila and the big bucket of money" before later going "My head hurts, lets just use Lambda"
... it's unfortunate that some corporates think cool is drunk and broke on their own home brewed kool-aid. But at least AWS gives them every opportunity of a less harmful path i.e. make a mess in the data centre, decide to use the public version, finally give up and go Lambda.
The good news, is AWS Firecracker is a further nail in the old "we're being locked in" argument. I expect a future conversation of ...

X : We're being locked into Firecracker.
Me : Open source!
X : Yes, but we can't run it as well as AWS.
Me : That's called finally being honest.
X : Why are you such an Amazon fanboy?
Me : Fanboy? Do you have any idea of how long I've been prodding Google and Cloud Foundry to move up the stack, to not get sucked into fighting over containers? It's like OpenStack and APIs all over again. Fight where it matters.
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X : How do you do research?
Me : University or commercial?
X : Is there a difference?
Me : In academia, people tend to do the research before they submit the proposal to do the research in order to fit in with some sort of scheduled research delivery process / gantt chart ...
... i.e. they spend the time "researching" actually doing research on something else which once completed is submitted as the next research proposal so they guarantee milestones of when it'll be delivered (as it is already done). It's all about hitting KPIs etc.
X : What about commercial research?
Me : Well, a lot isn't actual research in the sense of creating a new field. It's more applied research. So there tends to be less uncertainty. Other areas, well you just have to embrace the chaos. Of course, people still want Gantt charts.
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Lunch and a quick scan of NHS long term plan - longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nh… ... page 6 (summary) and rapid expansion of "personal health budget" - england.nhs.uk/personal-healt… - aka full scale privatisation of NHS under the cover of giving patients choice. Bye Bye NHS, you'll be missed.
... not that we really have an NHS, it is more of a franchise. Anyway, personal choice is the way to kill it off and embrace a market led insurance model. First health, police next - "Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him" - newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
.. but let us not sweat the little stuff like health, society, cohesion but focus on big things like staying in the EU. As we all know, the EC will save us. I can hear Juncker on the phone to May saying "you can't continue privatising the NHS, the EC is going to stop you". Lol.
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X : Predictions for 2019?
Me : Not my thing.
X : Go on.
Me : What are you after?
X : Acquisitions.
Me : Hmmm, a bucketload of tech acquisitions around Kubernetes. Expect big juicy deals.
X : It's the future?
Me : No. Mostly cash rich past giants with no future being clueless.
X : No market for Kubernetes?
Me : Some very profitable niches. Savvy tech buyer will wait until hype dries up before swooping in for tasty acquisitions around 2021-2022. This year will mainly be the clueless with big chequebooks. Hoping some friends will make it big this year.
X : The market doesn't operate to make your friends rich.
Me : Are you sure? It has been doing a good job of it - Cloud, Big Data, Containers ... it's always the same.
X : So, where is the future?
Me : I thought you were interested in acquisitions? They are not the same.
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Following my instagram share about hitting my 5 year AWS Evangelism anniversary, I was asked by the awesome @TMS_IEEE about which conferences I like, and why. So here is a thread about conferences. 1/19
The first thing to say is that I go to _A_LOT_ of conferences, as an organiser, a program team member leader or member, a speaker, and of course as an attendee for research purposes. In 2017 alone, I attended 137 events, just as a speaker. 2/19
That's an average of almost 3 events every week, once you take out holidays, where there aren't a whole lot of events. That excludes events where I played some other role, or where I joined as an attendee for research purposes. 3/19
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0/ OK, my turn for #AWS #reinvent tips, and I’ll just offer one (in multiple parts).

It’s this: Meet people and talk to them!

Here’s why: I do this and I *never fail* to learn something interesting.

Here’s how:
1/ Every day, there’s a free breakfast and free lunch provided by the conference. You can probably get better food outside in a Vegas joint, but don’t, go to the conference meal. Then…
2/ Pick a table using an algorithm that tries to maximize Number of People and Just Getting Started. Then pick people at random and say “Hi! Where are in from?” and find out what they’re working on.
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[THREAD] what's the difference between all the #aws events like #reInvent and #AWSSummit etc? 🤷‍♀️

answering this one in super duper thread format down below 👇👇👇
so first off, there are a ton of #aws events happening all around the world, all the time. i definitely try to make it to a lot of them! i am rich in frequent flyer miles 🌎✈️

here's a rundown of a few of the different types:
🗣️ an #AWSSummit is a 1-2 day event w/ multiple tracks of breakouts, a keynote + often workshops/labs/partner talks. summits are generally pretty big, + there should be something for almost everyone, at various skill levels and jobs. global list here: aws.amazon.com/summits
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As a guy who adores simplicity, I'm a huge fan of @webtaskio! They really simplified the typical #FaaS offering. Here's why 👇 (thread)
You can write your functions right in your browser by just visiting webtask.io/make. It features a simple code editor with exactly what you need. Nothing more, nothing less. You can try it now!
In this remote browser based session, unlike #AWS C9, you don't need to worry about the servers/os/env that is running your under-development functions. There's no terminal. You need to install an npm package? just add it from the UI.
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When I tell people I am the founding PM on Lambda, the question I often get is how the idea for #AWS Lambda/#Serverless came about in the first place. The truth is, its way too hard to point to one person/event as the defining moment.
It took 100s of customer conversations notes from multiple AWS folks where they told us 1/all the things they wanted to minimize/ not do at all while building applications; 2/architectural patterns they were repeating and wanted a way to build into their development flow.
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