Recently AWS released a new set of icons for all their services. We were really stoked about it, until we opened the file and realized they were low resolution raster icons in a Powerpoint file.

It’s that time of year again. No, not the holidays, it’s time for the yearly pilgrimage to Las Vegas for Amazon’s AWS re:Invent 2018. Last year over 40,000 people were in attendance; this year the number is expected to beat 50,000. It’s a safe bet to expect it to be bigger and more exhausting than ever.

With the increasing popularity and adoption of native cloud and serverless systems organizations are starting to demand that DevOps better understand - and manage - cloud costs. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

We have read with great interest the recently released The New Stack ebook entitled: Guide to Serverless Technologies. It is a great report with great insights! We encourage you to read it as well (it's free!). We have recently closed our own survey and are tabulating the results and have seen many similarities and some differences in the responses. Weighing in on the findings of the New Stack survey in advance of releasing our report, we wanted to comment on three key themes from this eBook…