Michael Walmsley

@walmsles

AWS Community Builder (Serverless)

Melbourne, AustraliaJoined October 2021

About

AWS Serverless Community Builder, Serverless Architect and Evangelist, creator of serverlessdna.com

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I am available for Mentoring, Chatting about Serverless and am happy to put together talks for your meetups and community groups.

Michael Walmsley's blogs

Michael Walmsley (@walmsles)blog.walmsles.io13 posts

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Web Sockets Don't Pub-Sub

Web Sockets have become a fundamental technology in modern web development, but their true function is often misunderstood. The killer use-case for Web Sockets has been in the development and proliferation of chat apps where users jump into a channel...

Mar 2, 202511 min read

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Introducing ServerlessDNA.com - A New Site dedicated to Serverless!

One thing I have learned over the past year while writing blog articles on Serverless to help people learn is that it is not straightforward, and the skills you need are more than just writing software or deploying infrastructure. You need to underst...

Jan 29, 20232 min read

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How SAM CLI and AWS Lambda Powertools enable University Students to Start building solutions in less than 60 minutes

I am an Advanced Application Engineering Manager at Accenture in Australia and work hard advocating for Serverless Technology, accelerating teams new to building Serverless solutions on AWS. I design and build Serverless solutions using Event-Driven ...

Jan 14, 20237 min read

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Serverless Testing, Part 3: Simplify Testing with SOLID Architecture

Serverless Testing, Part 1: What I forgot at the beginning starts with what I forgot when I started building serverless solutions. It encourages bringing back software architecture principles to your Serverless code and focuses on the Dependency Inve...

Dec 30, 202218 min read

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Understanding Lambda Execution Models

Know the Services you are using; really know them. Understanding how they work and fail is essential for constructing a resilient serverless architecture. This is the number one piece of advice I share with new Serverless Engineers. Knowing the AWS ...

Apr 30, 20225 min read

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Michael Walmsley

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Michael Walmsley's blogs

Recently published

Web Sockets Don't Pub-Sub

Introducing ServerlessDNA.com - A New Site dedicated to Serverless!

How SAM CLI and AWS Lambda Powertools enable University Students to Start building solutions in less than 60 minutes

Serverless Testing, Part 3: Simplify Testing with SOLID Architecture

Understanding Lambda Execution Models