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Principal Developer Advocate @AWScloud. Keynote speaker | Serverless and overcoming challenges. Opinions are my own. Believer - ✝︎
Oct 20, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
Why I minimize emulator use when developing #serverless applications. A thread.

Early on in my serverless career I was one of the the many who attempted to emulate as much of the cloud as possible on my machine. 1/8 I used LocalStack, LambCI, Serverless Plugins, SAM local, Local DynamoDB, and others. The problem I found was two-fold. The first was that the emulators, even the AWS ones, were a shadow of the actual service they were emulating. 2/8
Oct 20, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Where is @edjgeek speaking at #reInvent? Glad you asked!!

SVS208 (Breakout) - Building real-world #serverless applications with AWS SAM and Capital One. @georgemao and I talk about AWS SAM in the real world and the new SAM Accelerate features! SVS305R1/R2 (Chaltalk) - CI & CD workflows for serverless applications. In this session I cover best practices for CI/CD for #serverless. Including utilizing new tools like SAM Pipelines!