Custom Global Routing with Cloudfront Functions
CloudFront Functions let you run lightweight JavaScript code at the edge, before a request ever reaches your origin. In this post I'll walk through how to use them for custom multi-region routing: coo
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Optimized GitHub Flow for developing Serverless CDK apps
Stop Waiting on Other Developers – Ship Features Faster! When working in a team, you want a fast, reliable feedback loop without blocking others. I often had to wait my testing of a serverless application because others were still testing their own f...
Simpler serverless queues using AWS step functions
The Problem: Knowing When All Jobs Are Done Imagine you have a large-scale job as part of a workflow. One of my customers, for example, runs a highly isolated SaaS application that during application deployment runs database jobs for thousands of ten...
Choosing the right container orchestrator for scale-ups
Let me start with a few questions. Do you have proper load tests for your web apps? Are you deploying every week or more to production? Do you have application-level monitoring for quickly detecting and resolving issues? Autoscaling? If you are like ...
Three steps for choosing the right infra as code tool in AWS
You are running workloads in the cloud, and want to step up your game by using infrastructure as code. Awesome! Which tool are you going to choose? And why? It is hard to find nuanced guidance online: Few developers have in-depth experience with the ...
Re:Invent day 4 - Evolvable, event-driven architectures with Amazon EventBridge
Day 4 of AWS re:Invent was all-out on serverless. The keynote from Werner Vogels, which he did in a half-life t-shirt that looked remarkably like the AWS Lambda logo, did start promising. He focussed on all the areas that I have tried advocating in t...
Re:Invent 2022 day 3 - Analyze data faster with spark notebooks in Amazon Athena
With so many options, it can be challenging for using the right tools for the right job
Re:Invent 2022 day 2 - Scaling RDS Aurora Serverless V2 with AWS Lambda
A fast and feature-rich serverless alternative to Aurora provisioned instances
Re:Invent 2022 day 1 - A serverless streaming & event-driven ETL flow with Glue, redshift serverless and QuickSight
Three architectural patterns for pay-per-use data lakes and data warehouses
