Tweet As Lambda adds nodejs 6.10 to its supported platforms I wondered if there’s any performance differences between the platforms. Thankfully the templates in the Serverless framework make it a relative breeze to test it out with a simple HelloWorld function.   The Test see the test code here. I created a simple Lambda function for each platform that

Tweet The Road So Far part 1 : overview part 2 : testing and continuous delivery strategies   A couple of folks asked me about our strategy for monitoring, logging, etc. after part 2, and having watched Chris Swan talk about “Serverless Operations is not a Solved Problem” at the Serverless meetup it’s a good time for us to talk

It’s been some time since I blogged regularly.  Here’s why I got a Twitter account, and use it all the time for technical communication The Visual F# Tools Blog and then the .NET blog are major ways of communication about F# work at Microsoft Just about everything in .NET and Visual F# Tools work at Microsoft went open...

If you read a about the history of science, you will no doubt be astonished by some of the amazing theories that people used to believe. I recently finished reading The Invention of Science by David Wootton, which documents many of them (and is well worth reading, not just because of this!) For example, did you know that if you put garlic on a magnet, the magnet will stop working? Fortunately, you can recover the magnet by smearing goats blood on it. Giambattista della Porta tested this and concluded that [...]

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, I've been spending some time at the Alan Turing Institute recently working on The Gamma project. The goal is to make data visualizations on the web more transparent. When you see a visualization online, you should be able to see where the data comes from, how it has been transformed and check that it is not misleading, but you should also be able to modify it and visualize other aspects of the data that interest you. I gave a talk about my work as part of a talk series[...]