Top 10 year in review for AWS Serverless DA

It's been a busy year for the AWS Serverless Developer Advocacy team. Here are our top 10 deliveries for our developers for 2023.

(1) Serverless Land: We delivered new content sections in response to your feedback and the site's traffic grew by 126% as a result. Serverless Patterns continue to be the most popular resource, but the new search, learning areas, and content sections have grown massively popular too.

(2) Deeper content: We published a variety of paved paths and deeper content zones to make it easier for you to find assistance on key topics. These included Serverless Testing, Java Replatforming Guide, the Lambda cost optimization guide, the Lambda fundamentals guide, how to Lift and shift a web app to serverless, and Introduction to Distributed Map for Serverless Data Processing. In 2023, the 16 new content framework guides were read by over 26,000 visitors.

(3) Event-driven architecture visuals (EDA visuals) and EventBridge visuals are educational projects aimed at simplifying the learning process of event-driven architecture. 60 visuals were developed, complemented by two accompanying books available for download (EDA Visuals, EventBridge Visuals). Millions of you engaged with this effort via social media.

(4) Containers on AWS was launched in July and quickly became an important resource for thousands of you. Our team authored over 60 patterns for the launch, spanning every major ECS feature, with multiple infrastructure as code and CLI options. All the patterns are accompanied by code, a descriptive diagram, step by step instructions for deployment, and a PowerPoint slide that can be used in your presentations.

We also launched Bottlerocket.dev with 390 pages of documentation for Bottle Rocket users, and runfinch.com to help centralize documentation and content for Finch developers creating containerized applications.

(5) ServerlessVideo: this production-grade, serverless streaming app service is built on Lambda, ECS/Fargate, Step Functions, and EventBridge. It was featured in 75% of API and SVS tracks including Holly Mesrobian's talk (Building for the future with AWS Serverless services) as a way to demonstrate new re:Invent launches (AWS App Composer and Step Functions, Lambda function scaling, AWS Step Functions with Amazon Bedrock , and Amazon EventBridge integrations with Stripe). And you were engaged - thousands of re:Invent participants watched the 160 videos broadcast by our team, and hundreds cloned the open-source repo and tried it for themselves.

In 2024, we will be presenting ServerlessVideo with a workshop and breakout session at other conferences. Please contact me if you'd like to see it at your event!

(6) Serverlesspresso: We scaled up the live team to present the live coffee booth to over 30,000 customers in 2023 around the work. We also expanded the popular companion workshop to 7 languages to reach a much broader audience. There was a Serverlesspresso demo running somewhere in the world every other business day in 2023.

(7) Serverless Office Hours is the our consistent weekly serverless show and streams on Twitch, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Each episode presents a serverless solution and offers serverless Q&A. Our ServerlessLand YouTube channel also hosts non-livestream videos including Serverless 101, Lambda Fundamentals, Amazon EventBridge series, Learning AWS SAM, etc. Nearly one million have watched videos on this channel. The Foobar Serverless YouTube channel and Marcia y la nube YouTube channel (Spanish) also saw tens of thousands of new subscribers this year for all of Marcia's content.

(8) AWS re:Invent: Our team presented 27 breakouts, chalk talks, and workshops and supported ServerlessVideo and Serverlesspresso exhibits in the Expo Hall. Our session Best Practices for Serverless Developers, presented in partnership with Chris Munns from Startups, is currently the most watched recording of all re:Invent breakout sessions.

(9) EDA Day Nashville: We hosted the first US-based EDA Day in Nashville in October. This conference brought together prominent figures in the event-driven community, AWS and customer speakers, and AWS product management from Step Functions, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. We presented content on Serverless topics including ECS, Lambda, Application Integration services.

(10) Your feedback: The conferences, videos, and blogs are the most visible part of our jobs, but actually the most important part is listening to your feedback and getting this back to our service teams. Ultimately, DA represents your voice in the room when PMs are designing features and products. We collected over 900 pieces of feedback this year from customers, Heroes, and Community Builders. These are now being worked into product roadmaps and plans for 2024.

The Serverless DA team thanks all of you for reading, watching, listening, and talking to us - you help make our services better. From everyone in our team - ⛷️ Ben Smith , Jessica Deen , Julian Wood , Nathan Peck , 🚀 David Boyne , Jeramiah Dooley , Marcia Villalba , Maish Saidel-Keesing , Eric Johnson , Olly Pomeroy, Kyle Davis , and Scott Coulton - we wish you happy holidays and we will see you in 2024!