Tag: serverless

Deploying a serverless application using #AWS Lambda and #API Gateway involves several steps. Deploying a simple “Hello World” serverless application using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Deploying a #serverless application using AWS Lambda and API Gateway involves several steps. In this ...

In recent years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as a fundamental practise in cloud computing, allowing developers and operations teams to manage and provision infrastructure using code rather than manual processes. This shift has revolutionised the way applications are deployed and managed...

In this two-post series, you will learn to monitor serverless services with CloudWatch by building dashboards, widgets and alarms with AWS CDK. In this post, you will learn what it means to monitor a serverless service, why it is essential, and how to build CloudWatch dashboards to monitor your s...

Something you probably wouldn’t expect an AWS Serverless Hero to say is, “I don’t know what serverless is.” I’m not proud of that statement. In fact, I’m a little upset about it. I used to have a firm grasp on serverless, but that seems to have been shaken up r...

On January 4th, I announced the tech word of the year was async. Personally, I was prepared for a year of education on event-driven architectures. I was determined to go full-swing at work into 202 status codes and background processes. The architectures I designed wer...

It happened to all of us. You order a shiny new tech gadget or a pair of new jeans online. The order takes its time and then fails due to momentary network failure. So you submit it again, and the order goes through this time; success! However, two weeks later, you realize your credit card was...

I recently read the “Don’t be fooled by serverless” article from David Heinemeier Hansson and was really irritated by the serverless-bashing without any real insights. By way of background, I have operated servers since the early 2000s. First normal x86 racks...