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For a long time, both professionally with clients in my consulting work and in the AWS community, I've been evangelizing the "serverless" paradigm shift. To me, it's crystal clear that you should focus on building what differentiates your business, a...
AWS StepFunctions is a fantastic service for orchestrating complex workflows. But testing StepFunctions has always been... tricky. You could execute the entire state machine, observing side effects and final outcomes, but this approach often feels li...
AWS WAF, the managed Web Application Firewall, is a commonly used service to secure APIs, load balancers, and applications. But because of how the pricing model is set up for WAF, the costs can quickly spiral out of control when adhering to the AWS b...
In this post, we'll look at some of the most popular frameworks for building serverless applications on AWS, including their features, strengths, and weaknesses. We'll also look at examples of how each framework can be used to build an example applic...
One of the most significant benefits of serverless is that the development teams can fully own and manage all of their infrastructure themself. Keeping all of that infrastructure in the same CloudFormation stack can sometimes be troublesome however, ...
Serverless Framework is a fantastic tool for defining and managing your Lambda functions. But let's face it; it's not very good at handling other types of resources and infrastructure. CDK is though. This post will take a look at how we can combine t...
The Serverless Framework CLI can do a lot more than just deploy your app. Here are a few more ways you can use it in your everyday work that might not be obvious at first sight! 1. Bootstrap a Project The CLI can help you initialize and bootstrap you...
The serverless-step-functions plugin is a nifty Serverless Framework extension that allows you to define step functions directly within the serverless.yml. However, the definitions for step functions tend to get messy fast and it's hard to visualize ...
Slow builds tend to cost more than just the time they waste. More than a few seconds and you're off checking Slack and all of a sudden it's been a few minutes. Any longer and all of a sudden you've been on Reddit for 20 minutes. Having a fast build m...
