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In this post, we explore how fast ECS Fargate can scale compared to Lambda.

The starter provides configuration management, multi environment deployments, monorepo architecture with pnpm & Turborepo and automated GitHub CI/CD workflows.

A practical guide to migrating from AWS CDK Pipelines to CDK Express Pipeline.

Learn how to create and manage simple and fast deployment pipelines using the cdk-express-pipeline library, a powerful tool built on top of AWS CDK that enables CDK-native pipeline definitions.

With the Tailscale Lambda Extension and Proxy CDK Constructs, you can simplify secure networking without having to rely on Docker and serverfull infrastructure

Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed database with PostgreSQL compatibility.

The Starter Project shows how to do configuration management, design for multiple environments and use GitHub Workflows for CI/CD

We explore the benefits of a Lambda Monolith for the API comparing it to single-purpose Lambda functions per API route.

We explore the available options of desired count and the correlation with respect to time on the circuit breaker that initiates cloudformation rollback

By being a bit creative, we can force local bundling of CDK assets.

We explore the available options of desired count and the correlation with respect to time on the circuit breaker that initiates CloudFormation rollback.

We compare AWS SSM and SSH port forwarding to a remote host which includes code snippets

Cloud Glance got a face lift, a blog and some enhancements.

How to generate a logo using OpenAI's DALL-E for less than 1$

In the first installment of the 'How does CloudGlance Series', we look at some code snippets on how to get IAM User, Role and SSO temporary credentials with STS.

The second month of Cloud Glance saw some new features, documentation and bug fixes.

The start of Cloud Glance and how it's going so far.

Slides about my talk at the AWS PTA Meetup.

Efficiently refresh your Single Page Application by piggybacking off your existing API calls using AWS Cloudfront reverse proxy and Response Header Policy

Make the OpenAPI Spec file the contract between back and frontend by publishing an API SDK as an NPM package.

TypeScript does a great job at compile time type safety, but we still need to do runtime checks just like in JavaScript.

A Least Recently Used(LRU) cache stores items in-memory and evicts the oldest(less used) ones as soon as the allocated memory (or item count) has been reached.

What I have been upto and where I am going next.

Slides about my talk at the Serverless Summit 2021.

Use the right architecture for the job, consider the non-technical requirements first when deciding to use microservices.

WarpURL hibernation, burnout(almost) and more thoughts on finding product market fit.

CDK stacks can be deployed in parallel by generating a cloud assembly output and then specifying the order explicitly.

Lessons on how important product market fit is for a successful business, but progress is still being made while having fun.

This month was really exciting.

Exploring intermittent “issues” with assets being non-deterministic; uploaded on every deploy, even if the source does not change.

In this post I will explore 4 different methods that can be used to pass configuration values to the AWS CDK.

In this blog we will do a quick recap of CORS and reverse proxies.

This article documents the thought process and steps involved in refactoring a distributed monolith to microservices.

I hardly ever find myself reaching for third party monitoring services these days.

We create a Lambda layer with AWS CDK for the NodeJS Lambda function to consume; this consists of the Oracle Instant Client Basic Lite v19.x libs + the libaio.so.1 file.

These presentation slides explore the benefits of managed VS self hosted databases, provide use cases and samples for: Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, ElasticCache, Neptune, Elastic Search, Timestream and QLDB

This blog will demonstrate the high throughput rate that DynamoDB can handle by writing 1 million records in 60 seconds with a single Lambda, that is approximately 17k writes per second.

In this article, we will be looking at three different methods of Autoscaling applications.

How to use the technical considerations we checked out in part one to effectively design serverless and Lambda systems.

With great power comes great responsibility.

In this post we will explore the implementation difficulties and how a data lake fits into the organization, topics that other articles might tend to oversee.

Whoops, your production server ran out of space.

Using AWS IoT, DynamoDB, Lambda and Telegram Push Notifications to build a serverless Coffee Monitor notifying my coffee states, ex: Coffee is getting cold.

Using AWS IoT, DynamoDB, Lambda and Telegram Push Notifications to build a serverless Coffee Monitor notifying my coffee states, ex: Coffee is getting cold.

A tutorial on how to setup Xdebug, PHP Storm and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to debug PHP applications

This blog is completely serverless and in this post I will go through the steps, pros and cons to hosting and setting up a serverless blog yourself at a cost of $0 per month.

Keeping up to date with technology, frameworks and trends as a developer is difficult and fatiguing in this fast paced industry.

The work that you will be doing will echo your personality, believes, discipline, ideas and level of complexity long after it has been written.