Thread by @jeremy_daly

Here is my Ode to the Cloud 2021. Happy New Year, everyone! 🍾🥂🎆 #cloud #serverless

Two thousand twenty-one, a strange year we have seen,
Mixed with lots of highs and lows, and bags of in between.
And even though, most of us, just want to scream out loud,
Plenty of interesting things, did happen in the #cloud.

Jassy went to Amazon 'cause Bezos went to space,
And all without missing a beat, Selipsky took his place.
Munns decided startups, is where his help should aim,
So Talia, James, and others, all stepped up their game.

Forrest went to Google, and released another book,
And we're all extremely happy, with the job that Farrah took.
Rebecca joined the podcast, to chat with some cloud moguls,
Like I don't know, whaddya think, maybe @Werner Vogels?

Rick, he left Amazon, off to MongoDB,
But don't forget that AWS, acquired Stackery.
Ben started aleios, a name I do not get,
But regardless of its meaning, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Eric donned a squirrel suit, a dance off was his shot,
Bonig got the best of him, but the CDK did not.
And Julian's talks take anyone, to expert from a zero,
Plus Rosius and Ivonne are now, a serverless Takahiro.

And speaking of the CDK, there's something else with that,
A book by Höger, Bonig, Bhat, and CDKPatterns Matt.
And Matt gets a shout out, for the hours he has poured,
And the well-deserved recognition, of the Now Go Build Award.

There was lots of VC money, spread around the space,
Vendia raised a Series A, Lumigo kept up pace.
Webiny took some cash, Kong 100 million,
Cockroach did even better, now valued at 5 billion.

PlanetScale launched their database, plus announced a Series B,
Then they went, full GA, with a bigger Series C.
Vercel announced Next.js 12, for the web, an SDK,
And nabbed a Series C and D, I guess JAMStack's the way.

There were also several M&As, a few to note I will,
Like Ran and Nitzan's Cisco deal, for a cool half a bill.
A Cloud Guru and Pluralsight, have finally tied the knot,
Plus Okta and Auth0 joined, Nimbella, D.O. bought.

And as these thing were happening, it came as no surprise,
That the State of Serverless from Datadog, had usage on the rise.
Serverless is the future, it isn't hard to think,
Which is why this year, I joined the team, over at Serverless, Inc.

We launched a thing called Serverless Cloud, a monumental leap,
Plus others joined the serverless space, with promises to keep.
DataStax has Astra, Akka from Lightbend,
And MongoDB's Atlas, in keeping with the trend.

CockroachDB Serverless, launched with much delight,
Then Upstash brought some Serverless Kafka, to join into the fight.
I already mentioned PlanetScale, which seems a big to-do,
But I really wish AWS would GA, Aurora Serverless v2.

Now something else that's bubbling, a bet that I would hedge,
Is serverless compute, moving to the edge.
CloudFront Functions came along, a challenge to CloudFlare,
They just laughed, and said, "oh no, you don't want to go there!"

Pages got some updates, then Workers were Unbound,
15 minute timeouts, and upgrades all-around.
Then came R2 storage, with no more egress fee woes,
Then Images and Services, a challenger arose.

But don't forget Fastly, they said goodbye to edge cold starts,
Even argued with Cloudflare, using a bunch of performance charts.
And there are plenty of other players, doing edge compute,
But unless they really step up their game, their services are moot.

So much more has happened, like Azure Container Apps,
And Facebook became Meta, but no one gave two craps.
Knative was sent by Google, to the CNCF board,
Maybe I'm alone on this, but Kubernetes leaves me bored.

Stedi released Mappings, with events you can transform,
But we can't ignore, the AWS, product release storm.
The firehose is much too big, to list them all right here,
So here is just a smattering, of the things they did last year:

API Destinations, for EventBridge are pretty cool,
Plus S3 Object Lambdas, are a very handy tool.
Lambda got Extensions and SAM did Accelerate,
And App Runner got added to the container team's full plate.

Amazon did OpenSearch, the service was renamed,
It's not, however, serverless, for that it should be shamed.
Global tables in Dynamo, finally got CloudFormation,
No day 1 support for all these things, is a source of much frustration.

Step Functions got a Studio, a marvel of DX,
Plus 200 SDK services, what will they think of next?
Amplify made some moves, a Studio of its own,
With Ali and her team on it, the product's really grown.

The advocates launched some patterns, at ServerlessLand DOT com,
Lambda Functions got Graviton2, performance is the bomb.
Lambda got filters for SQS, Kinesis, and Dynamo,
Plus partial batch for SQS, was added to the show.

Kinesis Data Streams are now, available On-Demand,
RedShift even went serverless, to compete with Snowflake's brand.
S3 event notifications, can now go to EventBridge,
Plus some services' consoles got better, but only by a smidge.

There were also some more SDKs: Kotlin, Swift and Rust,
Plus a new, higher free tier, which really was a must.
The CDK reached v2, plus backup for S3,
In case you need more than eleven 9s of durability.

15 turned S3 and SQS, a long time there's no doubt,
And IAM, just turned 10, but I still can't figure it out.
So what else about last year, is there left to say?
How 'bout when us-east-1 went down for an entire day?

And while I'm sure they really would, like to clear the cache,
It's hard to forget about a little thing, we called Infinidash.
The idea itself was brilliant, some people got confused,
The response was less than stellar, and some egos then got bruised.

But let's focus on the positives, like debates we had with Corey,
Is it the unfulfilled promise of serverless, or the potential soon to see?
I even wrote some ditties, to help you through the mess,
Like my database cover of the Beatles' Help! and Goin’ Serverless.

So as we start the new year, let's remember all we got,
Lots of innovation and the COVID vaccine shot.
Hug your friends and loved ones, every single night,
And let's all say a little prayer, for the amazing Betty White.