Ken Collins ⚡️✨

@metaskills
Portsmouth, VA
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AWS Serverless Hero Ruby/JavaScript Cloud Native Developer. Principal Engineer @CustomInk and @CustomInkTech. AWS Certified Developer. #BLM

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speaking at events,

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live streaming,

making introductions,

and speaking on podcasts.

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Sep 2012 - Present

Principal Engineer, CustomInk

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Lambdakiq v2 is out which now defaults to use SQS’ new ReportBatchItemFailures feature. Lambdakiq is a #Rails ActiveJob adapter for #Lambda & SQS. It mimics the most popular background job processo...

Getting Started with GitHub Codespaces from a Serverless Perspective Leveraging Docker with SAM ensures we have a Linux environment and versioned dependencies that closely mimic the Lambda Runtime ...

The Case for Rails on Lambda: What started as Function as a Service (FaaS) for many is quickly becoming a fulfilled promise on the future of a commoditized cloud-compute platform. Event-driven and ...

Thrilled to join a Twitch session of really smart folks to celebrate AWS SQS' 15 Birthday 🎂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZrMixe_Gh4

Articles and blogs

Rust Lambda Rust Extension for any Runtime to preload SSM Parameters as Secure Environment Variables! Crypteia is a new super fast Lambda Extension written in Rust which turns your serverless envir...