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Paul Johnston
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Serverless:

Do as little as possible for as long as possible
It's not about tech, it's about leveraging the cloud as much as possible
It's not about which technology but how can I build something that can be as robust as possible for the longest period
It's not about if I can use a certain flavour or version of a system but how far I can get on 80% of what I need
It's not about how big my team is but how few people I need to deliver the maximum value
It's not about how complex my systems are but how simple they are to adapt to a change in business need
It's not about whether I'm using the coolest tech but whether I'm delivering the best value for the business for the longest time
Serverless isn't about technology, it's about economics
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Paul Johnston
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Why is it that at every "big" conference, the speakers on panels are mostly "CXO of VeryBigCorp"?

I ask this because, as someone who has mostly avoided taking senior roles in VeryBigCorps (for reasons) it makes me feel like unless I go down that path, my voice is somehow "less"
I am not saying that these people aren't good. Many are.

What I am saying is that not having (or having had) a title at a VeryBigCorp does not mean your opinion has no value.

And if you want a good example of an area where this matters:

#climatechange
Scientists in the #ClimateChange world have long fought the lobbyists of VeryBigCorps for the oxygen of publicity.

Is it any wonder that in the world of business, where the *title* is everything, that we make sure that at conferences we have the best company titles on display?
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Serverless / Green Data Advocate
@PaulDJohnston
Personal Opinion:

I don't think tech people should build tech things in hackathons to "help" charities/communities and the like.

If you build something, it should be built, and supported.

Something built in that way lacks support and often care and attention. It's a prototype.
It's not to say you shouldn't come up with ideas and prototype them out. This is a good thing.

However I've seen too many good ideas get built, and then simply thrown at a community.

The techies think they're "doing good" and the community thinks they're great for about 5 mins
... until they need something.

Then, often, the techies are nowhere to be found.

Not always though, and there are always exceptions.

The point is that tech people shouldn't try to do good by "building tech"

Tech people should be doing good by not doing tech.
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Serverless / Green Data Advocate
@PaulDJohnston
I haven't written many blog posts recently. There's a reason: I'm in a reorientation phase in a strategic/business sense. I'm doing a lot of chatting with people in the #serverless community though. I've been working on a startup that I have mostly shelved (way too early).
I've worked on too many startups in my 20+ career to waste my time on something without having a certain amount of clarity around the product and the business model. Sometimes you can get away with it, but the current #serverless market is not mature enough for this startup.
So, I'm talking with a few trusted people and looking at doing a bit of p/t or interim CTO work for the foreseeable whilst I figure out next steps - if you'd like me to come and do some consulting/training/mentoring, please DM me (they're open).
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Is there a future in old #tech? Of course there is - especially when it's still powering some of our most amazing inventions. Which brings me to the matter of today's #ThursdayThoughts topic:

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Ajay Nair
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2019 Wish : The #serverless community practices what it preaches, and focuses the conferences/talks/articles on the value gained, rather than the technology and concepts. In fact, we probably need to have some basic rules for serverless content. For example -
1) Must identify yourself as a practitioner (someone leveraging #serverless technologies to build something of end customer value) or a provider (someone who is providing technology that elables a practitioner to go serverless).
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Gal Bashan
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#serverless advocates - we are doing something wrong. I have been putting this off for a long time but I really think it is important and has to be said. Warning: LONG thread.
The trigger for this thread was a talk I gave at #DevOpsDays Edinburgh. It wasn't the talk per-say, but the whole conference experience (which was awesome, but that's a topic for another thread).
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Gaurav Sharma
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1/n: LENDING (business) IS NOT A FEATURE.

And yes, distribution of lending/credit products is a ‘feature’ in some platforms/products.

Lending (CREDIT) is a business with many complex moving parts.

#long #fintech #thread #lending
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There’re lot of tweets (within the FinTech community in India) about Whether 'lending is a feature' or not? So, let’s unpack that a bit..
3/n: True definition of Lender = Lending Money from own balance-sheet (i.e. skin in the game). The primary revenue here is Interest Income (Net Revenue from Funds), and margins computed basis NIM (Net Interest Margin) and COF (Cost of Funds).
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Matteo Figus
@matteofigus
For me a serverless (S-) architecture is much more than a event-driven function as a service (FaaS)...

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A S- architecture is an abstraction on top of a (potentially very complex) infrastructure, so that devs can focus on building great features and products and run their code in production without focusing on boring configuration and scalability.
This doesn't mean there are no servers and there is no care for infrastructure: quite the opposite indeed.
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