Presently sponsored by Blue Matador: You've automated your infrastructure with serverless. Now automate your monitoring alerts with Blue Matador. Stop configuring alerts for your Lambda functions, just use Blue Matador. We're so confident you'll love it that we're offering $100 to demo it with our team. When you deploy an API to API Gateway, throttling is enabled by default in the stage configurations. By default, every method inherits its throttling settings from the stage. Having built-in throttling enab[...]

Presently sponsored by Blue Matador: You've automated your infrastructure with serverless. Now automate your monitoring alerts with Blue Matador. Stop configuring alerts for your Lambda functions, just use Blue Matador. We're so confident you'll love it that we're offering $100 to demo it with our team. Last week, someone asked me at the AWS User Group in The Hague “Is caching still relevant for serverless applications?”  The assumption there is that Lambda auto-scales by traffic, so do we still need to wo[...]

Presently sponsored by Blue Matador: You've automated your infrastructure with serverless. Now automate your monitoring alerts with Blue Matador. Stop configuring alerts for your Lambda functions, just use Blue Matador. We're so confident you'll love it that we're offering $100 to demo it with our team. Update 01/10/2019: a few of you have mentioned layers in the comments or on social media. Scroll to the bottom to see my thoughts on layers as a solution to the problems I mentioned in this post. A version [...]

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Presently sponsored by Snap.hr: Snap.hr is a transparent job hunting platform built for developers by developers. On Snap.hr, 3rd party recruiters are banned, and companies are always upfront about the role and salary. Snap puts developers in the driving seat, so you never feel hassled or left waiting. It's how hiring should be. Disclaimer: if you’re new to CloudFormation custom resources, then I recommend you start by reading this excellent post by Alex Debrie first. Custom resources bring a whole new dim[...]