Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He’s also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.
I’d like to thank Rowan Udell and everyone at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write my first book! Dr. Michael Kelly, for graciously offering his spare time to review and critique our work. My mum, dad and sister, for putting up with my absence and occasional crankiness for the past few months. Hannah, for simply being an all-around amazing human. Damian Wilson, who gave me my first tech job way back in 1995: I wouldn’t be where I am today without the opportunities he gave me. Thor Essman and James Coxon, who created the amazing company that we both work for and whose support knows no bounds. Trang, for keeping me sane and occasionally dragging me to the beach when I needed a break from writing. Lastly, a shout out to those who suffer from vestibular migraines —may you walk with a steady foot, see the world with clarity and hear with grace and harmony.
Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. He has held a variety of positions, such as SRE, frontend developer, backend developer, consultant, technical lead, and team leader. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in Australia and Canada. He currently works as a senior consultant with Versent, an AWS Advanced Partner in Sydney. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the Serverless Framework community. He regularly blogs at http://blog.rowanudell.com.
Firstly I'd like to thank my partner, Marie-Pier, for making this book possible for me—having two small children does not make writing a book easy! Thanks to my family for all their encouragement over the years. To all my colleagues and peers at Versent, thank you for setting the bar so high and making a great company to work for. Much thanks to our colleague Dr. Michael Kelly for reviewing the book, and the team at Packt for their support. Finally, thanks to Lucas for the great work, and picking up my slack.