Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

A monorepo of serverless microservices


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In this episode, Gerhard talks to his Skyhook Adventure friends: Alan Cooney, Saul Cullen & Wycliffe Maina. They are the ones that introduced Gerhard to the world of serverless in the context of Amazon Web Services. Gerhard shared his experience with remote work, how to ship software with confidence and consistency, and what to look for in infrastructure as code.

At the heart of Skyhook Adventure are adventure trips, and 2020 was not a good one for this business. As you can already tell, code and infrastructure was not the biggest challenge for this team. Having said that, serverless, microservices, a monorepo and the event-based architecture played a big part in successfully navigating the challenges.

This is a story about what happens when a good team allows itself to be guided by solid experience and keeps doing the right thing, long-term. It’s fun, real, and it applies to many.

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  • Featuring:

    • Alan Cooney – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
    • Saul Cullen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
    • Wycliffe Maina – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
    • Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

    Show Notes:

    • Skyhook Adventure - the end-result that this team ships many times per day
    • 📚Welcome to the Experience Economy (the book that @saulgcullen mentioned)
    • The skyhookadventure.com 2021 setup:

      • AWS Lambda - serverless functions
      • AWS Event Bridge - serverless events
      • AWS DynamoDB - serverless document based database
      • AWS CDK - infrastructure as code
      • Vercel - server-side rendered frontend hosting
      • GitHub - version control
      • GitHub Actions - continuous delivery
      • Split - feature flags
      • Drip - email marketing
      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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