PHPSW: The Serverless LAMP Stack, April 2021
14 Apr 2021
at Online
Talk comments
Very important topic that I think needs to be covered more.
Possibly you might have been slightly nervous....which is natural, but one thing to practice is a conversational tone. I personally find standing up while giving talks a lot easier.
Another possible improvement would be more 'action items' for managers who might have staff who are showing some signs of stress or other mental health concern.
This is something that I've been thinking about/looking at recently, but I've struggled to find a good overview/introduction that gives me enough of a framework to then go off and learn more. This talk provided that overview and just enough information to help me understand how the pieces all fit together. The talk was slick, the graphics were useful and there were plenty of pointers on to further information. I'm looking forward to sharing the recording with other people once it goes up.
Started off as what seemed like a sales talk from AWS, however it did move past that and start to give examples.
Its still a little confusing how to take what is most likley the monolithic projects we are all working on right now, and break into Lambda, however Ben did kinda cover this as taking by trying to break out next bit of work that isn't to large.
Sounds like there are issue's developing with AWS locally, not due to lambda, but due to the other items you are bound to want to use (Aurora for example).
Ben did really well at answering the questions. Very interesting talk to be fair!
Very well spoken and concise while giving a detailed overview of the AWS serverless product.
Only thing I could say as an improvement is to hang around on slides that have complicated info graphics to let people fully digest what is being spoken about 👍
Great coverage a topic which is often over looked. Great that your understood your audience and added humour.
Every company should be giving this presentation to staff, developers or not.
An important subject that needs to be discussed often, and bringing it into daily conversations is really valuable. Natalie was a little nervous to start, but it was great to see her get a little more comfortable. The slide deck did a great job of augmenting the talk, rather than just being subtitles. I'd love to have heard a few more tips for positive mental health!
Great subject and important talk.
Only criticism is maybe to read less from a script - using it as a guide (you know what you've written and you've written it well so don't fret! 😋)
Nice talk, and nice 'presenting' voice makes it interesting to listen to. Two possible improvements:
i) Talk more about why people should use this, e.g. what are good uses and bad uses cases, and slightly less about technical details. I find it really hard to retain many implementation details from a talk,
ii) Some of the slide should be tweaked to more aggresively use the space available, to make the content easier to read. e.g. the slide "Libraries and dependdencies in your lambda code." has quite a lot of space available, and the contents are kind of squished and hard to read imo.
The second point may tie into the first...that level of technical detail is just really quite hard to take in quickly, so possibly just giving the overview of how it works, and then link to full tutorial (including how to get setup) for people to reference later when they have time to start trying it.