You’ve probably heard of continuous delivery (CD.) You may even work for an organization that uses it. But do you really understood what it means? Do you know what it takes to get it up and running and what benefits you’ll reap when you get it right? Christie Wilson’s Grokking Continuous Delivery addresses all this and more. It’s a comprehensive book that starts with a definition and takes you all the way through implementing a continuous delivery pipeline.

Serverless computing is pretty cool. You need something done in the cloud. It might be storing a GPS location. Or pulling some from a DB based on a few query parameters. But building a complete server instance would be overkill. You just need an API endpoint to accept a query and spit back a result. You need a serverless function. Building serverless function is easy. Let’s create one in AWS in five minutes.

I hope you had a great holiday season. Mine was so fantastic I managed to lose two draft posts! Which is embarrassing when you’re supposed to be a professional programmer, and your blog is connected to GitHub. One of the highlights of my winter break (which wasn’t really a break because I work for a modern-day Scrooge & Marley) was finally getting around to watching Finch on Apple TV+. It was released in November of 2021, but in typical Eric fashion, I didn’t get around to watching it until after Christmas.