It's with a heavy heart that I share an update that has turned my life upside down. My world is spinning.
This story is hard for me to share, but I could really use the support right now 💙🧡
Allen Helton
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Allen Helton
@AllenHeltonDev
Dad | AWS serverless hero | farmer | web dev | enterprise architect | product @momentohq
- I'm loving the way my stickers turned out. Who wants one?
- If you currently or at any point in the future will build APIs for public consumption, please read this entire series by @paul_asjes, it's awesome.
- People often tell me "#serverless is too expensive at scale", but rarely can they tell me what "at scale" actually means. So I did some math and wrote an over-simplification of comparing cloud costs to find when serverless really is more expensive.
- I am honored, excited, humbled, thrilled, and about 21 other emotions right now. Thank you @awscloud for naming me a #serverless hero! I can't wait to connect with more of you and gather thoughts and inspiration for the next generation of serverless 🔥🥰#AWS Heroes are passionate builders who share knowledge & inspire others. 🦸♀️☁️💡 Congratulations to our newest AWS Heroes driving impact in the #CloudCommunity. Thank you @Al_Grigor, @lizthegrey, @fantasticHsieh, & @AllenHeltonDev. 👉 go.aws/3AmX8Vg
00:00 - Hear me out - using express state machines with only direct sdk integrations should replace #lambda functions every chance you get. No cold starts, higher concurrency limit, faster horizontal scaling, and priced relatively similar
- Many of you know I write a lot of blog posts. What you might not know is how much time I spend every week cross-posting on different platforms to extend my reach. I got tired of it, so I built a #serverless app to do it for me.
- Today is my last day at @tylertech after 11 years. It's been incredible, but it's time to continue my growth somewhere new. I'm thrilled to announce I'll be joining @momentohq next week! I talk about my journey so far and decision to leave in this post.
- 2023 is going to be a big year. Follow me for content on ° Serverless ° APIs ° Infrastructure from Code ° Blogging as a dev And some other tidbits in there as well 🤠
- Now that @getpostman has a VS Code extension, my feedback cycles have gotten even faster. sam build sam deploy *send request* No window switching, no tab bouncing. Immediate feedback from my APIs in the cloud. The way development should be ❤️#dx
GIF - Who's ready for a hot take 🔥? We're making Lambda too hard.
- I gave a task to a group of 4 college kids who had never used #aws before to make a #serverless web app over a semester. I pointed them at @AWSAmplify and within 2 months they had it fully functional with a chatbot and textract. They had never made a webpage before either 🤯
- I am super excited to announce the Ready, Set, Cloud Podcast! It covers the same type of content as my blog and will be interview driven with leaders in the #serverless and cloud community. Episode 1 - What is Serverless with @ksshams #readysetcloud readysetcloud.io/podcast/1
