Lee Gilmore

For my new followers, Hi 👋 I’m Lee, an AWS Serverless Hero from the UK mainly talking about: 🔹Serverless 🔹AWS 🔹EDA 🔹Domain-Driven Design 🔹Software Engineering 🔹Architecture My website and patterns registry 👇 www.serverlessadvocate.com #AWS #serverless

In my latest online course, I cover the fundamental integration patterns you will see most often in #serverless applications.. And this isn't just point to point vs pub/sub. This course covers a range of different #patterns, and importantly, how you can actually use these patterns in #production.

Amazon Cognito Custom Email Lambda Trigger "Using the Custom Message trigger to send branded verification emails with Amazon Cognito, TypeScript, and the AWS CDK" blog.serverlessadvocate.com/amazon-cogni... #AWS #Serverless

A bit of fun with ChatGPT asking it to create a fun image of me based on what it knows about me. Annoyingly lots of back and forth as it said it wouldn’t generate an image of a public figure until I said “I am Lee Gilmore!!!” 😅

Issue #66 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is out! ⭐ This week, our serverless expert is AWS Sr Specialist Solutions Architect Joseph Alioto, and our spotlight falls on AWS Hero Yasunori Kirimoto! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/66-kiro-ki... #AWS #Serverless

People with deep skills and experience + a product mindset + AI are going to be winning in 2026

I would love Amazon Aurora DSQL to allow you to save queries in the Cluster Explorer query window. The amount of times I write some SQL and lose it (especially when the console times out and you need to reconnect!) #AWS #DSQL #awswishlist

Anybody else seeing massive slowdowns with Kiro at the moment after it's been running for a few hours? Feels like a memory leak of some type... #AWS #Kiro

My hope for re:Invent next year? A plain marl grey hoodie without aluminous green sleeves 😇

The best way to learn cost-optimisation on AWS is to have your own credit card attached to personal side projects

I would love to be able to communicate with AWS Kiro using natural language with a simple microphone button instead of typing all of the time, and can hear the responses back conversationally and not just in the chat window. Choosing the persona, too, would be cool! #AWS #Kiro

Webhooks on AWS Lambda — Tips & Tricks "We discuss production-level webhooks on AWS, including examples in TypeScript and the AWS CDK" www.linkedin.com/posts/lee-ja... #AWS #Serverless #AWSCDK

I ran two polls on LinkedIn for 7 days to my 15K+ followers, and these were the results - Terraform pipped the AWS CDK when it came to go-to IaC frameworks. - TypeScript/NodeJS came out top for go-to language/frameworks. #AWS #Serverless #IaC

#AWS North Community Conference is just over two weeks away! I’ll be speaking on "The CDK Mindset: Building Serverless Solutions as Repeatable Blueprints", and I am happy to be able to offer you access to 20% off using the discount code: LEE_SENT_ME northcommunityconf.com/speakers

🌟 Issue #52 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This is one full year of the newsletter, and I am so thankful to all of the experts who have given their own time to support me and the wider community. A huge thank you from me! 💜 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/52-a-year-...

Super excited to be speaking at the AWS North Community Conference, covering "The CDK Mindset: Building Serverless Solutions as Repeatable Blueprints" 🧩 👉 Explore the full agenda and get tickets here 🎟️ northcommunityconf.com #AWS #Serverless

New books to read 📚

⭐ Issue #51 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/51-increme... This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder @tpschmidt.com, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Kate Gawron! 🏆 Please share! ♻️ #AWS #Serverless

Issue #50 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 🔥 This week, our serverless expert is AWS DevTools Hero Matthew Bonig, and our spotlight falls on AWS Specialist Developer Advocate Mike Chambers! Go check it out! open.substack.com/pub/serverle... #AWS #Serverless

AWS CDK Blueprints vs Custom Constructs vs Aspects "We compare AWS CDK Blueprints to Custom L3 Constructs and Aspects, with examples in TypeScript and the AWS CDK" blog.serverlessadvocate.com/aws-cdk-blue... #AWS #Serverles

Kynren was amazing last night! ⚔️ kynren.com

Not the best score, but great to take my eldest to her first Newcastle United game tonight ⚽️

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier Well over 100 free detailed #AWS articles and GitHub repos with code examples on serverlessadvocate.com now I hope people find these useful 💜

Serverless Rules CDK Nag Pack "How we can use the Serverless Rules Nag Pack in the AWS CDK, discussing the common findings from running against production apps." medium.com/@leejamesgil... #AWS #serverless

🌟 Issue #48 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Robert Bulmer, and our spotlight falls on Serverless Author Mark McCann! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/48-serverl... Please subscribe & share! 🔔 #AWS #Serverless

Anybody else with kids find when coding all week your singing ‘Soda Pop’ constantly in your head?

Amazon Aurora DSQL Sidecar to DynamoDB — Part 1 "Unlock flexible query patterns by pairing Amazon Aurora DSQL with existing DynamoDB tables as a powerful sidecar strategy." blog.serverlessadvocate.com/amazon-dsql-... #AWS #Serverless

🌟 Issue #46 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Seth Orell, and our spotlight falls on AWS Senior Solutions Architect Urmila Raju! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/46-amazon-... Please subscribe & share! 🔔 #serverless #aws

Which ORM framework are you currently using with Aurora DSQL, and what are you using for migrations? 🧠

🌟 Issue #45 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Davide De Sio, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Daniele Frasca! serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/45-aws-rea... #serverless #AWS

Using Amazon Nova Canvas Virtual Try-On in Ecommerce Solutions 🛍️ "Example of using Amazon Nova Virtual Try-On for ecommerce applications, with full code examples in TypeScript." www.linkedin.com/posts/lee-ja... #AWS #serverless #AI

Hamilton this afternoon was out of this World..best theatre performance we have seen in years 🎭💜

💥 Introducing our newest AWS Heroes! Christian Bonzelet, David Victoria, and Nora Schöner: congratulations and thanks for all that you do in the AWS community! 🎉👏

Coffee, chill, and read time 💜

🌟 Issue #39 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Serverless Hero Ant Stanley & our spotlight falls on Cloud Dialogues Co-Host Georgia L. Smith! open.substack.com/pub/serverle... #AWS #Serverless #AI

Amazon Bedrock AI Image Manipulation with Amazon Nova "Examples of using Amazon Bedrock for image generation, background removal, inpainting and outpainting, with full code examples in TypeScript and the AWS SDK." medium.com/@leejamesgil... #AWS #Serverless #AI

I don’t know if AI will replace most white-collar jobs in the next five years or not. What I do know though, is that I’ll keep learning, adapting, and upskilling to stay relevant regardless, just as I have always done. Focus on what you can control 🌱

Validating AI-generated images using AI and Amazon Bedrock "Gaining confidence in AI-generated images using a validation framework underpinned by Amazon Bedrock" blog.serverlessadvocate.com/validating-a... #AWS #Serverless #AI

Issue #38 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Senior Specialist Solution Architect Mark Sailes, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Victoria Demina! 🙌 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/38-life-be... #AWS #Serverless

It’s so easy with AI tools like Cursor to prompt ‘all’ changes through AI lazily, even things that you could do easily yourself by opening the correct file(s) and making the change, and no wonder we have quality issues when multiple files are changed on each run..

Where has the Serverless community gone? ⁉️ Is it just on LinkedIn pretty much now, as X/Twitter and BlueSky are dead it seems? 😴🫥 In years gone by engagement, posts, collabs, and banter was high… 📉

Issue #37 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Matthew Wilson, and our spotlight falls on Senior Solutions Architect, Powertools for AWS, Andrea Amorosi! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/37-model-d... #serverless #AWS

Been using Cursor for an Expo/React Native app, and it’s awesome at the start, but the more you get into the nitty gritty design the more you need to either a.) manually do or b.) be super super super specific with prompts, in my experience.. otherwise…

Issue #36 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Tycko Franklin, and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Lee Priest! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/36-increas... #Serverless #AWS

When you just want to add a semi colon to the end of your statement but your AI assistant is trying to add an additional three lines of code you don’t need…😅

Amazon Bedrock AI Model Cross-Region Inference 🤖 "An example of using Amazon Bedrock AI Cross-Region Inference in our Serverless solutions, with an example in the AWS CDK and TypeScript." medium.com/@leejamesgil... #AWS #Serverless #awslambda

Hey friends 👋, I wanted to test out a POC for 'Amazon Cognito M2M Token Caching for Cost Optimisation & Performance 💸', where you can see the article below using the AWS CDK and Typescript: medium.com/@leejamesgil... #Serverless #AWS #Typescript

🌟 Issue #35 of the Serverless Advocate Newsletter is now out! 👇🏽 This week, our serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Elena van Engelen-Maslova and our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Alessandro Volpicella! 🔥 serverlessadvocate.substack.com/p/35-cheaper... #AWS #serverless #awslambda

⭐⭐⭐Just hit 100 patterns on serverlessadvocate.com ! ⭐⭐⭐ If you are interested in detailed AWS and Serverless articles and associated code repositories you can easily filter by services and patterns, please check it out! ✅ #AWS #Serverless #awslambda

I’ve just bought three new domain names today…

Have a great weekend 💜