On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we’re revisiting our conversation with Co-Founder of Senzo, Ant Stanley. Ant sits down with Corey to do so. He offers up his history which has lead to his time as “Serverless Hero” to landing on the line that “serverless sucks.” Lend us your ears to see how that transition happened! Ant goes into detail on JeffConf (not the of the Bezos nomen), and working with servers and what to put where and why. Ant and Corey talk over the plague of AWS services where Ant offers his perspective how to trim the fat and keep things simple to make long-term objectives more attainable. They discuss the importance of training, the role of certifications for better and worse, and more. Tune in for his take!

Show Highlights

• (0:00) Intro
• (0:51) Duckbill Group sponsor read
• (1:24) What does it mean to be an AWS Serverless Hero?
• (3:13) Why Ant and Corey are critical of the state of serverless
• (7:53) Woes with Lambda and CloudFront
• (10:12) The never-ending stream of new AWS services
• (13:36) Hurdles ahead of going serverless
• (17:33) Struggles of getting customers to understand a newly built service
• (21:31) Duckbill Group sponsor read
• (22:14) Pros and cons of certifications
• (32:17) Where you can find more from Ant

About Ant Stanley

Ant Stanley is a community focused technologist with a passion for enabling better outcomes for society through technology. He is an AWS Serverless Hero, runs the Serverless London User Group, co-runs ServerlessDays London and is part of the ServerlessDays Global team. 

Links

• A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com
• homeschool.dev: https://homeschool.dev
• aws.training: https://aws.training
• learn.microsoft.com: https://learn.microsoft.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamstan

Original Episode

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/serverless-hero-got-servers-in-his-eyes-with-ant-stanley/

Sponsor

The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com