You wouldn't build your own toaster, would you?

Featuring Yan Cui

In 2011, Thomas Thwaites spent 9 months and 1187.54 and built his own toaster.

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How To Build a Social Network Entirely on Serverless

Featuring Yan Cui

Many people are building different workloads using serverless technologies these days, but how would a non-trivial system such as a social network look like on serverless?

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Applying Principles of Chaos Engineering to Serverless

Featuring Yan Cui

At this month's Ops Matters, we're joined by Yan Cui who'll be telling us how we can apply principles of chaos engineering to a serverless architecture, and improve resilience through controlled experiments that expose the inherent chaos and failures modes in the system before they...

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Devops with Serverless

Featuring Yan Cui

Do you want to find out more about bringing DevOps and serverless together? Check out this talk from Yan Cui!

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Serverless In Production, An Experience Report

Featuring Yan Cui

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Serverless in production, an experience report by Yan Cui and Scott Smethurst

Featuring Scott Smethurst and Yan Cui

For our first talk in March we will have an acknowledged expert in the field of serverless architecture and AWS, Yan Cui and his colleague, Scott Smethurst, discussing those tricky issues.

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Serverless In Production, an Experience Report

Featuring Yan Cui

Dear JSLovers, are you ready for the next big thing in the cloud ecosystem? Yan and Diana will share with us their experience providing great insights of the serverless world.

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Serverless in Production, an Experience Report

Featuring Yan Cui

AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing...

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Taming Cloud Complexity with F# DSLs

Featuring Yan Cui

The emergence of Cloud platforms has fundamentally changed the IT landscape, to the extent that it is now unthinkable for a technology-focused startup not to operate on the cloud. However, attempting to ride on this ever-expanding platform ecosystem wave has created a new set of challenges.

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7 Ineffective Coding Habits with Yan Cui

Featuring Yan Cui

At BuildStuff'14, Kevlin Henney presented an excellent talk titled "Seven ineffective coding habits of many programmers". As an attendee that day and someone who has exhibited many of these habits over the years, I came to realize that using F# has cured me of many of these...

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Modelling a large scale social game with Neo4j

Featuring Yan Cui

The challenge of modelling and balancing the economy of a large scale game is one of the biggest problems game developers face - akin to catching Bigfoot.

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.NET in Social Gaming

Featuring Yan Cui

In this session for the F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group, Yan will share some insight into how GameSys uses a polyglot stack evolving around .Net to build their games and the different kinds of scalability and big data challenge they have to face for each game.

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