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193 Stories To Learn About AWS Lambda

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1. Using TypeScript for AWS Lambda [A How-To Guide]

When we are using NodeJS as the runtime for AWS Lambdas, JavaScript is the default language. However, due to the lack of typing check in JavaScript, from time to time, buggy codes are deployed to Lambda inadvertently. Such as a small typo like this:

2. How to Trigger Lambda with SNS Messaging: Going Serverless with AWS

Do you love event-driven programming? Let's take a look at triggering AWS Lambda functions from AWS SNS messages.

3. AWS Step Function: Adding Retries and Error Notifications To A Lambda Function

A step by step guide on how to use the AWS step function to retry Lambda and send notifications when errors occur in Lambda.

4. What Causes Malformed Lambda Proxy Response and How to Fix it

Malformed Lambda proxy response is a common configuration error in a serverless architecture. Learn what causes this error and how to fix it.

5. AWS ECS vs AWS Lambda Compared

Comparing cloud services? Read our Lambda vs ECS guide. Consider programming language, pricing, and the benefits.

6. A simple Event-Sourcing Example Using Lambda and DynamoDB [Includes Snapshots]

Recently, I have been helping a client implement an event-sourced system. In the process, I put together a very simple demo app which is available on GitHub here.

7. Let's Export Cloudwatch Logs to ELK

Cloudwatch is an AWS service that allows storage and monitoring of your application logs from an array of AWS services. This can be really useful for creating alerts to notify developers when a certain threshold of errors has been hit, but sometimes we might need to deeply analyse our logs, not only to spot errors but to find insights into our application and improve performance. This is where an ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack can really outperform Cloudwatch. ELK allows us to collate data from any source, in any format, and to analyse, search and visualise the data in real time.

8. AWS Lambda: how to share code in a monorepo

A while back, a client asked me “how can I share business logic between services in a Node.js monorepo?”. So here it is!

9. Netflix Tech Stack Has No Chill: How To Account for 15% of the World's Bandwidth

Disclaimer: This is NOT a press release by Netflix. Just my honest review of tech that helps us binge great content without hassle.

10. Triggering AWS Lambda Events with DynamoDB Integration

Learn everything about AWS Lambda triggers in this guide, including Amazon DynamoDB integration and 3 common ways to trigger AWS Lambda.

11. How to deploy a Node.js application to AWS Lambda using Serverless

Being a developer is amazing. Writing code, solving problems and thinking of ingenious solutions for complicated algorithms is what we live for. But, the grass is not always so green on this side of the fence. Sooner or later you need to get your hands dirty and deploy the app you worked so hard on. Deployments are not always easy. To be blunt, they can be incredibly hard and time-consuming. That’s what we’ll solve in this tutorial.

12. 10 Things in Engineering We Don't Spend Enough Time On

In this article, we’ll look at ten underrated activities in engineering for which allocating more time can be beneficial.

13. Image Resizing after Upload with Amazon S3, AWS Lambda and CloudFront for SSL

When developing an application it is important to have assets resized for different capabilities, screen sizes, and resolutions. This is important for many reasons.

14. Serverless monitoring — the good, the bad and the ugly

Not so long ago, a job requirement pushed me into the world of FaaS, and I was thrilled. I had dreams of abstraction — eliminating all that tedious work no developer likes doing. “We are not operations engineers!” I exclaimed proudly. “We should not need to dabble in the dark arts of the Linux Shell.”

15. How to Easily Deploy Telegram Bot Using AWS Lambda

To deploy a telegram bot in C # seems is difficult, but I want to show that it is not. In this article I will give an example of publishing it on AWS.

16. Using AWS Lambda to Reduce NodeJS App Size

Tips on how to reduce your node app size and the benefits of doing this.

17. 4 Ways to Run Your AWS Amplify Project From An Existing GitHub Repo

4 Ways to run amplify project from existing GitHub repo.

18. How to Deploy AWS Lambda with Docker Containers

You can now build your serverless workloads in a Docker container with AWS Lambda. We gave it a try and here's our review (with ETL examples).

19. Using Jenkins, Docker and CI/CD for Serverless Applications

Hi, I am developing a freelance project with aws lambda. I used Jenkins and docker for CI/CD. Jenkins runs pipelines on containers. In this Tutorial I will show you how I set my environment.

20. Is There An Affordable Alternative To Step Functions?

AWS Step Functions is a great service for orchestrating multi-step workflows with complex logic. It’s fast to implement, relatively easy to use and just works. The problem is its price.

21. Receiving and Handling Emails with AWS and Amazon SES

If you have B2C applications, you have to deal with support tickets and emails. According to user size, it can be difficult to handle emails with a person or manage same email address with multiple people for support mails.

22. The Fastest Way to Invoke a HTTP/REST URL from an AWS Lambda

How to invoke HTTP and Rest requests from AWS Lambda without waiting.

23. Debug your AWS Lambda in Production in just 5 steps

By using AWS Lambda Debugger VS Code Extension, you can debug your serverless applications natively with their permissions.

24. How to Create Dynamic Open Graph Images

A short post on how to generate dynamic open graph images using puppeteer-core and chrome-aws-lambda for sharing on instant messaging platforms online.

25. Getting Started with AWS Lambda and Node.js

Once upon a time, not so long ago, a word caught my ear. Lambda. That struck a chord, remembering the good old days of playing Half-Life as a kid. Little did I know what AWS Lambda was, and how incredibly awesome it is. If you’re intrigued, stick around. I’ll only take a few minutes out of your already busy day, and you surely won’t mind.

26. An In-Depth Guide to AWS Lambda Error Handling

In this article, we'll be discussing everything you need to know about the basics of AWS Lambda error handling.

27. Simple Steps to Avoid the Retry Behavior from AWS Lambda

When a Lambda function invocation crashes due to an uncaught application error, for example, AWS may automatically retry the same request.

28. Automate Your Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand Backup For Multiple Tables Using Serverless Lambda

As we know with great power comes great responsibility, on-demand backups are the real saviour if your Dynamo DB got corrupted abruptly. Also, it helps you to meet the compliance requirements for the ages if your client keeps bothering you like your Ex. But I don't have the tenacity to initiate the Backup every day. Hence, I devise a Serverless solution for all the lazy people like me out there to automate the DynamoDB backup. Where, we can explicitly mention the backup intervals, table names and backup retention period. I have achieved this using a conjunction of AWS services like Cloudformation, Lambda and Cloudwatch.

29. Create a Crypto Crowdfunding Widget From a Few Lines of Code

Create a crypto crowdfunding widget from a few lines of code

30. AWS SAM + Cloudformation macros, a patch made in heaven

Over the last few weeks I have been working with a very ambitious client – Solve, who is building a new murder mystery game. They are doing some really cool things technically, and are building an entirely serverless stack.

31. A crash course on Serverless with AWS : Building APIs with Lambda and Aurora Serverless

Ever since AWS made a serverless option of AWS RDS Aurora generally available, I’ve been on the edge of my seat, eagerly anticipating all the various possibilities. It would mean a breakthrough in building serverless architectures. No more managing connection pools with SQL. No more worrying about capping out available connections. This would make it viable to use serverless for database intensive operations.

32. Image Analysis using AWS Rekognition via Lambda Function

In this blog, I am going to show you how we can use rekognition for image analysis using lambda function.we will be going to perform label detection and object detection for an image so basically we are performing image analysis in this blog.

33. Storage Options for Serverless on AWS

Serverless computing enables you to run functions without provisioning resources. Most of the top cloud providers offer good serverless options, but this article offers a review of storage options for serverless on AWS. First, you will learn about the core principles of storage and data persistence in serverless computing, and then you'll discover what serverless options are available on AWS for databases, microservices, IoT, and storage synchronization.

34. Applying principles of chaos engineering to AWS Lambda with latency injection

We can apply latency injection to APIs created with API Gateway and AWS Lambda. Our approach should allow us to configure when to add arbitrary delay (and how much) to our API endpoints to ensure inter-service communications are tuned with proper timeout values.

35. A crash course on serverless-side rendering with React.js, Next.js and AWS Lambda

Not so long ago I started exploring server-side rendered single-page applications. Yeah, try saying that three times fast. Building products for startups has taught me SEO is a must if you want an online presence. But, you also want the performance SPAs can provide.

36. Creating API with Bash Code in AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Amazon web services (AWS) is a powerful platform for almost every webservice you can imagine. With AWS API Gateway and Lambda you are able to create REST API’s with ease! API gateway is enables you to create the API. Lambda lets you execute code when the API is invoked. This code can be in many programming languages like Python or Node.JS.

37. The Beginner’s Guide to Serverless Computing

Serverless is a modern computing model that employs Function-as-a-service architecture and manages the backend and scaling automatically with low cost and high concurrency.

38. A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Image resize on-the-fly with Lambda and S3

Handling large images has always been a pain in my side since I started writing code. Lately, it has started to have a huge impact on page speed and SEO ranking. If your website has poorly optimized images it won’t score well on Google Lighthouse. If it doesn’t score well, it won’t be on the first page of Google. That sucks.

39. The Lambda Function That Creates xlsx Files From JSON Data to Store On S3 Using NodeJS/Typescript

How to write a Lambda function to convert json data to xlsx file and then upload to s3 and return a signed url of that uploaded file on a serverless framework

40. Why you Should Stop Using Fat Functions in Your Lambda Code

The debate over whether to use a single-purpose function vs a fat lambda continues to this day. We hope to convince you that Fat Lambda is truly an anti-pattern

41. Serverless and Blockchain: Check NFT Supply With AWS Lambda

How can serverless technology be used in tandem with blockchains? Find out how we built an AWS Lambda function to monitor NFT supplies.

42. How to Reduce AWS Lambda Costs

There are many ways to reduce AWS Lambda costs. In this article, we'll take you through the AWS Lambda cost optimization strategies that have worked for us.

43. The API Gateway Security Risk You Didn't Pay Attention to

When you deploy an API to API Gateway, throttling is enabled by default in the stage configurations.

44. Building a Serverless Data Pipeline to Analyze Meetup data

Building a Serverless Data Pipeline to Analyze Meetup data

45. AWS Lambda: How to Set Up Private Storage in an AWS S3 Bucket to Upload Images

We will deploy a serverless infrastructure based on AWS Lambda for uploading images (and any other files) with private storage in an AWS S3-based bucket.

46. Serverless Step Functions: Avoid Leaky Abstractions

I have some exciting news to share with you about the Serverless Step Functions plugin.

47. Decentralized Computing & Storage vs. Legacy Cloud Solutions

On November 11th, 2021, an Infura outage collapsed large swaths of the Ethereum ecosystem...

48. Introducing a better way to record custom metrics

Many clients have asked me “how do I record custom metrics from Lambda?”.

49. Methodology Of Autoscaling For Kinesis Streams

Problem statement

50. Sending Emails with the SendGrid Cosmic Function

We recently released Cosmic Functions (public beta). We’re excited to help teams build amazing modern products together with new serverless solutions.

51. AWS CloudWatch Synthetic Service Introduction and Quick Tips To Start

AWS just released CloudWatch Synthetic service a few days ago.

52. Going From Open API Specification To Development Portal

API Economy is taking off exponentially and its every business need to expose their digital services and assets in a secure way. I'll walkthrough in this article how one can take a API-first , design first approach to take into the account, the needs of API consumers and various steps that lead to creating a Developer Portal using all the tools that we've currently. Please note that these tools have alternatives in the market, but these are what got me to the goal post in the fastest way and case could differ for others.

53. Write Your First AWS Lambda Function

What is it?

54. Sentiment Analysis using AWS Comprehend

Sentiment analysis uses AI to identify the core emotion behind a piece of text. In this article, we will look at how to build a sentiment analyzer using AWS Comprehend.

55. An Overview of Users Vs Roles in AWS IAM

Today we’ll finally clarify IAM, specifically when to use Users vs Roles. With the visuals and examples I’ll share, you’ll realize it’s surprisingly simple.

56. AWS Lightsail: The Why, Hows, and Whats

Lightsail is an easy-to-use alternative to EC2, offering everything you need to build websites and simple web applications.

57. A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Running Node.js 11 on Lambda

Quite an exciting title, isn’t it? I was hyped when I heard AWS was adding support for custom runtimes and layers for AWS Lambda. This means you can now build your own custom artifacts, enabling you to share and manage common code between functions.

58. Solving invisible scaling issues with Serverless and MongoDB

Ever since software engineering became a profession, we have been trying to serve users all around the globe. With this comes the issue of scaling and how to solve it. Many times these thoughts of scaling up our software to unimaginable extents are premature and unnecessary.

59. Introduction to RDS Proxy: Exploring with Benchmarks in Go

A deep dive into the performance characteristics of RDS Proxy vs RDS

60. An Introduction to Boto3: How to Use any AWS Service with Python

What is boto3 and how to use it? We look at how boto3 works and how it can help us interact with various AWS services.

61. Are Your Lambda Functions Doomed To Fail?

AWS Lambda has a cool feature that can be both a blessing and a nightmare for a serverless application, depending on whether it’s properly handled by our code: the retry behavior.

62. What is the ideal memory size to lower costs of running a task on Lambda?

Should you increase Lambda memory? It might sound crazy, but increasing your AWS Lambda memory could actually lower your bills. Find out how.

63. Build Your own Telegram Bot with AWS and Node.js

Automate thankless tasks like splitting grocery bills using a Telegram Bot and AWS.

64. How to Add OAuth2 Authentication to an S3 Static Bucket With Okta

Authenticate/Authorize AWS S3 static websites with Oauth2 using Okta & Lambda@Edge running Lambda Functions to and from Cloudfront

65. AWS Re:Invent 2021: The Most Important Updates

Find out what were the 22 most important serverless updates from re:Invent 2021. Announcements, updates and more - serverless edition >>

66. How to Solve the Problem of Cold Starts in 'Serverless' Systems

Learn about serverless cold starts. What they are, what influences serverless startup latency, and how to mitigate its impact.

67. Serverless Architecture: Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns [Part 1]

A while ago, we covered the invocation (trigger) methods supported by Lambda and the integrations available with the AWS catalog.

68. How Using AWS Lambda with Rust Saved 3x the Cost Compared to Using Python or .NET

When building for large-scale use, using Rust certainly feels worth it both from a cost perspective (factor x3 saved) and from a performance perspective.

69. I wish I had this before I learned API Gateway

AWS API Gateway Explained With Real Web App - React Lambda

70. I Chose Serverless for My New Startup — Should You?

I have seen cloud tech change a lot in my 10 years of experience. AWS and GCP were not the default choice a few years ago, and I have worked in companies that bought and installed physical servers. What a nightmare! And this is why trying out serverless was the natural next step for me. I think everyone should give it a shot, and I wanted to share my experience!

71. 6 Reasons Why You Should Not Connect Express.js And AWS Lambda

Some facts why usage Express.js inside AWS Lambda is pitiful design anti-pattern and how to give it up without pain.

72. Serverless Functions with C#, Azure and AWS

This article will explain how to build serverless functions on the primary cloud providers services: Azure and AWS.

73. How to Debug AWS Lambda Code with PyCharm

Debug AWS lambda code locally without SAM or Docker.

74. How To Monitor a Forum for Keywords Using Python and AWS Lambda

While building ScrapingBee I'm always checking different forums everyday to help people about web scraping related questions and engage with the community.

75. How You Can Reduce Costs on AWS Lambda

As a Serverless computing service, Lambda already saves hundreds of thousands of dollars for many companies out there. While traditional server-based infrastructures usually lead to overprovisioning and waste, the Serverless pay-per-use model enables cost-effective cloud spending.

76. How To Cache Secrets Using AWS Lambda Extensions

Build a cache layer for secrets stored in AWS Secrets manager using AWS Lambda extension

77. auto-create CloudWatch Alarms for APIs with Lambda

In a previous post we discussed how to auto-subscribe a CloudWatch Log Group to a Lambda function using CloudWatch Events. So that we don’t need a manual process to ensure all Lambda logs would go to our log aggregation service.

78. 'Serverless Smackdown': Who Leads the Squid Game?

To ensure your project’s success, you need to make the right call and choose a serverless provider that fits your product’s size, complexity etc.

79. Creating a Instance Scheduler using AWS CDK

The AWS CDK is a software development framework to define cloud infrastructure as code and provision it through CloudFormation. The CDK integrates fully with AWS services and allows developers to use high-level construct to define cloud infrastructure in code.

80. Serverless Development: Addressing AWS Lambda-related Python Errors

In this article, you'll get an overview of the need-to-knows for error handling Python in AWS Lambda.

81. 5 Essential AWS Services for Web Development

If you're getting started with AWS and you're interested to build your web applications using AWS services, then you're in the right place.

82. AWS Decoupling: The Big Comparison

A comparisons between AWS services - Kinesis, SQS, SNS - that allow you to decouple sending and receiving data (including Python examples).

83. Building Our E-Commerce Platform with Serverless FaaS

We built our e-commerce platform with AWS Lambda and other serverless technology. Herel's why we chose AWS Lambda and more on Serverless FaaS.

84. How To Convert HTML to Markdown with a Serverless Function

Outlined below is the setup for a AWS lambda function which combines fetching the HTML for a URL, stripping it back to just the essential article content, and then converting it to Markdown. To deploy it you’ll need an AWS account, and to have the serverless framework installed.

85. Why Serverless is a Great Choice for your Business and Its Growth

As you read this post — possibly on your smartphone — it’s easy to forget how many modern technologies we take for granted.

86. How Your Startup Can Benefit From Serverless Approach

The popularity of hiring vendors for handling application backend has spiked tremendously over the last 5 years. On the one hand, startup owners go serverless to save infrastructure costs and pay for resources as they go

87. Why Implementing Microservices on AWS Is Indispensable to a Modern Architecture for Business Agility

AWS customers build microservices on 3 common patterns: API-driven, event-driven, & data streaming. The blog covers the common characterics of microservices.

88. A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Triggering Lambda with SNS Messaging

If you’re like me, a sucker for event-driven programming, you’ll want to continue reading. Today we’ll take a look at triggering AWS Lambda functions from AWS SNS messages. I’ve covered a few interesting topics regarding serverless architectures and AWS already, but nothing like this yet. Dig down, and get ready. Let’s go.

89. Going Serverless? Here’s 5 Use Cases

Since 2014 when AWS launched AWS Lambda and kickstarted the serverless movement, going serverless has grown exponentially for organizations of all sizes from one-man start-ups to huge listed global enterprises. While there are some challenges to this new architecture, the ways moving to serverless can transform a business often far outweigh these.

90. How to Scale a Business on AWS Lambda and Process Millions of API Requests per Month on a Budget

My biggest fear was the database.

91. The Definitive Crash Course on Serverless with AWS: Centralized logging with Kinesis and Lambda

Don’t you just hate it when APIs are failing and you have absolutely no clue why? Now imagine you don’t have access to the VM, cluster or container where your software is running. Want me to continue with this nightmare?

92. Quick Guide to AWS CDK and Serverless with REST API and Data Lake Analytical Querying

This is a hands-on course on how to deploy a fully Serverless web app using the AWS CDK. You will learn how to:

93. CI/CD Pipeline for NodeJS Lambdas on AWS using Jest, Serverless Framework, Github, and TravisCI

I wanted to start a serverless project, and one of the primary headaches aside from architecting the workflow and deciding which lambda functions need to be created is a simple and yet effective CICD workflow.

94. Serverless API with Terraform, GO and AWS, Part 1

Knowing how to build REST API with latest tech is cool. You know what's even cooler? It's being able to deploy it to the cloud! I'll walk you through the process of building simple, server-less application using GO, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamodb) and Terraform.

95. AWS Serverless design for IoT

This IoT walk-through lab will show you how to send IoT data from your ESP8266 or ESP32 device, through AWS API Gateway, to Lambda, to a data lake in S3, and finally design a static web page for IoT data visualization.

96. 4 AWS Lambda Debug Methods To Troubleshoot Function Issues

Experiencing issues with AWS Lambda? Explore these four popular AWS Lambda debug methods to quickly rid yourself of troublesome bugs.

97. AWS Step Functions: When They Might Come In Handy

As you probably already know, Step Functions is a serverless Workflow Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There’s a lot to discuss about this service, and you’ll find plenty of vital information in our AWS Step Functions: The Ultimate Guide as well as in our series of articles that’ll dive deep into various aspects regarding this AWS service.

98. A Better Introduction to AWS Lambda

Over 200 services are available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Lambda is the AWS platform's event-driven serverless computing solution.

99. AWS Lambda: Top 14 Use Cases for Your Business

How can you improve serverless architecture with Amazon Web Services? Explore unconventional AWS Lambda use cases.

100. Why You Need To Use Cloud Tech For Your Startup And What Mistakes To Avoid [Interview]

The cloud has been a hot topic for the last several years. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use this particular tool because of information overload and massive marketing activities performed by vendors.

101. A Fact-checking Telegram Bot that Busts Fake News

Social media, especially closed groups like those on telegram are likely to be used to spread disinformation. This Telegram bot helps users to bust fake news.

102. A Deep Dive into AWS Firecracker

Firecracker is a Virtual Machine Monitor, written in Rust that Amazon Web Services use to power it’s Serverless Compute services — Lambda and Fargate. Firecracker makes use of Linux’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine virtualisation infrastructure to provide its products with MicroVMs.

103. AWS Cost Optimization 101

The beginning of the year is the perfect time to clean up and optimize. This also applies to your AWS bill. I've composed practical tips on how to cut costs with small effort.

104. Using Lambdas in Production

I have been using Lambda in production for about four years now personally, and three years professionally at Volta. Initially, I shipped Lambdas because it was easier than managing servers. At Volta, we now exclusively use server-less services because they are the smartest option for our workloads if we remember to support them correctly. This is a cheat sheet, a checklist of all the things you might want to remember when shipping something new to ensure it runs successfully.

105. How To Use Amazon API Gateway to Decouple and Scale Serverless Architectures

One of the benefits of Serverless architectures is the possibility of scaling applications without worrying about load balancers and clusters of servers. While services like AWS Lambda hold their promises on this area, there are usually misconceptions about how they work.

106. AWS Lambda For Dummies [Part 2]

In Part 1 of our Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners, we gave a refresher on the fundamentals of AWS Lambda and what is AWS Lambda. In this post, we’ll look at AWS Lambda pricing, some interesting Lambda facts and examples of great AWS Lambda use cases in your serverless application.

107. Apply These Techniques To Improve ML Model Deployment With AWS Lambda

As builders of an MLOps platform, we often get asked whether serverless is the right compute architecture to deploy models. The cost savings touted by serverless seem extremely appealing for ML workloads as for other traditional workloads.

108. Leetcode Coding Challenge Using Lambda

I am a big fan of leet code so when we decided to have a code challenge in our team I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to build one which should include pretty basic functionalities like:

109. Go Serverless with AWS Lambda, Node.js and Dashbird

Learn how to deploy a Node.js application to AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework and Dashbird for insights.

110. Database Tips: 7 Reasons Why Data Lakes Could Solve Your Problems

Data lakes are an essential component in building any future-proof data platform. In this article, we round up 7 reasons why you need a data lake.

111. Setting Up AWS CloudWatch Alerts (vs Dashbird Alerts) To Monitor Your Applications

Learn about the best practices for AWS Cloudwatch Alerts and Dashbird Alarms, to not miss out on critical info about your serverless app.

112. You Absolutely Need To Read This To Master AWS Lambda [Part 1]

Welcome to the Serverless world. One of the first things you’ll hear about is AWS Lambda - and you’ll continue to keep hearing about it! While architecture can be serverless without Lambdas involved, it’s very often the key component within a serverless application. In the first post of this 3-part AWS Lambda Handbook series, we run through what is AWS Lambda, dialling back to basics with the various terminology, how to create a Lambda function and how to run it.

113. 6 Tips To Scale an AppSync Project To 200+ Resolvers That Will Blow Your Mind

I have been working on a large AppSync project for a client these past few months. The initial version of the app was built in just a few weeks, but the client has commissioned additional features and the project has kept growing. At the time of writing, this project has over 200 AppSync resolvers and 600 CloudFormation resources.

114. Modeling Hierarchical Access With AppSync In 3 Simple Steps

I have been working with a US client to build a first-of-its-kind app for managing medical consents. It falls under HIPAA compliance and it’s paramount that we do not allow unauthorized access to user data.

115. 6 Use Cases to Drive Down Cost Using AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is an event-driven computing cloud with many uses. Here are some of the best AWS Lambda use cases >>

116. AWS Core Services: Major Serverless Tools That You Should Use

When first looking into serverless migration and its architecture, it can feel like you’re staring down an endless shopping aisle of critical serverless tools that all need to be put into your basket straight away. Some services seem to offer the same function, while others can feel wildly different - both, as a result, can instill some doubts as to what is really necessary for your business and serverless application.

117. How to Monitor Serverless Applications With AWS CloudWatch Alarms

Running any application in production assumes reliable monitoring to be in place and serverless applications are no exception.

118. Super Easy Forms Introduction: The Easiest Way to Create a Serverless Web Form

In past years, innovation in cloud services has made it quite convenient to host static websites. Since they don't require servers, these sites are usually faster, more secure, and cheaper to host/maintain than their dynamic counterparts; making them perfect for something like your new landing page.

119. Everything You Wanted to Know about Caching for Serverless Applications

Last week, someone asked me “Is caching still relevant for serverless applications?”

120. How AWS CDK Facilitates the Development Process of AWS Cloud Stacks

Working with AWS can be quite a complex task at times, due to the fact that well composed architectures and solid infrastructures might be troublesome to deploy and maintain in the long run. A main software development goal is to always optimize the development flow by making processes as simple as possible, from the programming language to each and every framework to be used in the project.

121. Building QR Code Generator in Serverless World using Kumologica

The concepts of social distancing, contactless approach and safety first have now become the new normal in our present COVID induced downturn.

122. Using JavaScript & AWS CloudWatch for Scheduling Website Content [Tutorial]

Scheduling website content is hard. Most content management systems (CMS) have features for publishing products, blog articles, and other types of platform-related content, but what about simply scheduling HTML? As developers sometimes we want to show a section of our website during a certain time frame.

123. Production-Ready Serverless Composition and Orchestration

A strong and mature trend in modern cloud software development is to implement components that are:

124. 4 Tips for AWS Lambda Cost & Speed Optimization

In this article, we're covering 4 tips for AWS Lambda optimization for production. Covering error handling, memory provisioning, performance and more.

125. Grasping Serverless At Scale Is A Lot Easier Than You Think

Best Practices of Serverless at Scale

126. Your Serverless Guide is Ready

Learn everything you need to know about Serverless, including case studies, essential concepts, guidelines, and best practices.

127. AWS Lambda with Kinesis Trigger: 6 Pitfalls and How to Fix Them

In this article, we discuss the 6 most common pitfalls of AWS Lambda with Kinesis trigger that are usually spotted only in production.

128. Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure

This article is written by Kareem Ayesh and Yasser El-Sayed.

129. How To Build Scalable Serverless Architecture on AWS

A majority of companies prefer to focus their resources on other things rather than on scalability, which causes massive problems in the future, especially once they grow to one million users. The objective of building a robust serverless application is to succeed in making it scalable and powerful at the same time.

130. How to Make Your Lambda Functions Run Faster (and Cheaper)

The AWS Lambda service allows us to easily deploy and run our own code, without worrying too much about the underlying infrastructure (when compared to non-serverless technologies). It essentially scales infinitely (with great power comes great responsibility), and can be connected with a bunch of other services, like API Gateway, S3, AppSync, DynamoDB, etc.

131. How to Migrate to Serverless and Make it Work Post-Transition

Migrating to serverless? Learn the steps and what to bear in mind in each stage, from preparation to migration and post-transition.

132. A Guide to Building Complex Serverless Infrastructures

In this article you'll find out how the AWS Well-Architected Framework came to be, how it evolved and how it should be implemented in 2021.

133. How to include SNS and Kinesis in your e2e tests

Being event-driven is a key characteristic of a serverless architecture. Often our Lambda functions would publish events to SNS topics or Kinesis streams instead of calling downstream APIs directly.

134. AWS re:Invent: The Five Most Important Serverless Announcements

Top 5 Picks on Serverless Announcements at AWS re:Invent

135. AWS Secrets Manager: How to Manage Credentials in Python

In this tutorial, we're looking at the AWS Secrets Manager as a way of managing credentials in Python scripts, with an example use case.

136. Awesome Hacks To Master AWS Step Functions

The use of serverless computing has become a must nowadays, and some of you may already know a thing or two about Amazon Web Services like Lambda Functions, Step Functions, and other services AWS provides. However, if this is the first time you hear about them – fantastic!

137. Adding Code to AWS Lambda, Lambda Layers, and Lambda Extensions Using Docker

With Docker, we have three ways to add code to Lambda that isn’t directly part of our Lambda function. What does this mean?

138. Building a Conversational AI Chatbot With AWS Lambda Function and Amazon EFS

Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System. Amazon EFS is a fully managed, elastic, shared file system and designed to be consumed by other AWS services.

139. How To Break The DND Blanket With AWS

As a startup founder of an HR SaaS called HR Partner, I found myself being ‘on call’ virtually 24/7. I had hundreds of customers in countries all over the world, and this resulted in my email and support centre notifications going off around the clock.

140. AWS Lambda: What Kind of Serverless Applications Can I Make? (Podcast Transcript)

Amy Tom talks to Pavel Denisjuk about AWS Lambda and serverless applications. Pavel is the Co-Founder and CTO at Webiny.

141. How To Automatically Transition Jira Issues Using a Github Webhook

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142. 17 of the Best Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Web Developers to Learn

This article will give you a basic understanding of the main AWS features and will be useful for those who are just starting to get acquainted with the platform

143. Everything You Need to Know About AWS Cloud Computing

Amazon Web Service (AWS) is an all-inclusive cloud computing marketplace by Amazon. It serves as an on-demand cloud computing platform that offers multifarious cloud computing models and deployment tools.

144. Introduction to AWS Log Insights as CloudWatch Metrics

A step-by-step description of how to create an AWS Lambda to convert Cloudwatch LogInsights into metrics

145. Serverless Architecture: Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns [Part 2]

This is part of a series of articles discussing strategies to implement serverless architectural design patterns. We continue to follow this literature review. Although we use AWS serverless services to illustrate concepts, they can be applied in different cloud providers.

146. What Is Cloudwatch Embedded Metrics?

I can’t believe not many people are talking about this AWS feature. It’s a game changer!

147. Resources and Tools by AWS That Can Help You Get Started for Free

In this article, we'll cover some tricks and tips to get started and keep using AWS for free.

148. Failing at Serverless: Serverless is Stateless

Serverless is stateless. Well sometimes thats not quite true. Here is a story of fail.

149. Debugging AWS Lambda Runtime Errors

Debugging AWS Lambda can get tricky in Amazon CloudWatch. KloudMate lets you get to Lambda errors quickly and effectively using Lambda error logs.

150. How I Built a Simple Forex App with Telegram Bots and AWS Lambda

As a freelancer working for different countries, I needed to optimize my currency exchange. So, I built a simple forex app with AWS Lamda and Telegram bots.

151. Comparing Different Serverless Monitoring Platforms

Technology touches almost every corner of the world economy. Even when it’s an indirect relation, in many cases tech is an essential, vital part of our societies. It just can’t fail without causing too much distress and losses. Not only financially, but especially to the human aspect.

152. Securing Serverless Applications with Critical Logging

Serverless security: How important are logs to secure a serverless app? Here's what and how to log based on the industry best practices.

153. AWS Lambda Alias: An Essential Guide

Why you should be using AWS Lambda alias for your versioning strategy

154. Using the Events API to Build a Slack Bot

I’m a huge fan of automating working processes. I try to automate everything and save my coworkers time.

155. When Dedicated DevOps is Not Available

With the rise of cloud computing and modern distributed systems, we also witnessed the rise of a new practice area: DevOps.

156. Serverless Benefits And Challenges: 2020 Edition

While we know the many benefits of going serverless - reduced costs via pay-per-use pricing models, less operational burden/overhead, instant scalability, increased automation - the challenges are often not addressed as comprehensively. The understandable concerns over migrating can stop any architectural decisions and actions being made for fear of getting it wrong and not having the right resources. This article discusses the common concerns around going serverless and our advice to minimise their impact.

157. An Introduction to the AWS Scheduled Lambda Function

A solution using CloudWatch rules and alternative solutions.

158. Once Upon a Time There Was Bare-Metal

The story of how Serverless came to be.

159. Choosing a Computing Method: a Serverless SWOT Analysis

If you ever find yourself deciding for or against serverless the following tries to make the decision easier for you.

160. Better Failure Detection in Serverless Apps

Having reliable failure detection in place is a must for any application in production. Here's how to best achieve it for AWS Lambda.

161. Connecting Event Bridges Across AWS Accounts: A How-To Guide

Connecting Event Bridges Across AWS Accounts: A How-To Guide

162. Answering the Biggest AWS Lambda Questions

Learn all about AWS Lambda, an Amazon serverless computing system that features a custom back-end service and real-time data processing >>

163. 5 Common Amazon Kinesis Issues

AWS Kinesis is a professional tool that comes with its share of complications. This article will discuss the most common issues and explain how to fix them.

164. Avoid Surprise Bills from AWS: 'Begin' Saving Today

Protect yourself from surprise AWS bills!

165. How to Have an Automated Blog Promoter With ChatGPT, Twitter, and AWS

Automated Blog Promotion with ChatGPT: Learn how to promote your blog posts automatically with our AI-powered toolkit. Start promoting your blog posts today!

166. How Migrating to Serverless Gave Square Enix, Autodesk, and FINRA Big Business Benefits

Bigger companies are notorious for moving slow, but here's a case for why they should make the switch to serverless ASAP.

167. Building Your Infrastructure With Just a Diagram

This hands-on tutorial will teach you how to create infrastructure via the AWS Application Composer Console.

168. Introductory Guide to Voice Technology Implementation

Discovering the possibilities of Voice Technology, by exploring its installation process. Here is revealed the needed code and screens for a successful setup.

169. Using an AWS Lambda Function to Moderate Amazon IVS Chat Messages

There are two ways to address chat moderation: manual and automated. The manual method requires a moderator to 'flag' a chat message for removal.

170. How to Create a Serverless API Using AWS Lambda and Node.js with TypeScript and Express.js

An example application using the Node.js with TypeScript and Express.js where a serverless API will be implemented and deployed on the AWS Lambda service.

171. Learn How to Use Lambda Layers by Building an Image Resize Function Using Sharp

Lambda Layer is a true gem in the Lambda function realm. In this article, you will know how to create and use Lambda Layers. As an example, we will create a sha

172. How Serverless Empowered Us to Accomplish More with Less

We explore how we use Serverless at Courier, review some Serverless basics, and show how Serverless has empowered our team to accomplish more w

173. How to Save Hundreds of Hours on Lambda Debugging

Lambda debugging can take hours to resolve. Learn these time-saving methods to quickly scan logs and errors in your Lambda functions

174. Exploring The Container Images Function in AWS Lambda

Have you ever wished you could combine the portability of containers, with the scalability of Lambda functions? Well, now you can!

175. How To Implement Serverless Services and Run Chrome Headless in AWS Lambda

Learn what headless browsers are, what are the use cases, how to implement serverless services and run Chrome headless in AWS Lambda.

176. 3 Tools to Gain More Insights into Your AWS Lambda Functions

Comparison of top observability and debugging tools to help you monitor Python in AWS Lambda.

177. Redefining Serverless: A Change in Approach and Architecture

Serverless is a fantastic way of building applications, but there is a lot more to consider than simply Lambda functions.

178. How To Do Data Mapping in Kumologica

Data mapping is a key element in integration. Most of the prominent integration tools provide different capabilities for data mapping. In this article I thought of sharing on how data mapping can be achieved in Kumologica. Kumologica uses JSONata as the base for data mapping. JSONata is a Lightweight query and transformation language for JSON data. It supports complex queries expression which can be achieved with minimal syntax and has a location path semantics of Xpath 3.1.

179. Internal AWS Monitoring is Hard to Grasp

Learm how a serverless monitoring solution can catch problems for you without the painful learning curve connected to serverless failure detection.

180. A Serverless Perspective on AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Everything you need to know about AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and whether or not it would be a good alternative to an API Gateway.

181. How to Choose the Right AWS Partner to Manage Your Cloud Infrastructure

When you chose Amazon Web Services for your cloud platform, you made a good decision. AWS remains on top because it continually improves and enhances its service provisions for its users. But it is a complex environment and one which many businesses cannot navigate with expertise.