Unless you are a sci-fi author or some secret government agency, the question whether aliens would understand lambda calculus is probably not your main practical concern. However, the question is intriguing because it nicely vividly formulates a fundamental question about our formal mathematical knowledge. Are mathematical theories and results about them invented, i.e. constructed by humans, or discovered, i.e. are they eternal truths that exist regardless of whether there are humans to know them? The que[...]

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. Whilst this is useful in its own right, it only scratches the surface of what … auto-create CloudWatch Alarms for APIs with LambdaRead More » The post auto-create CloudWatch Alarms for APIs with Lambda appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

Hi, welcome to the second edition of my weekly updates. Come join me at DAZN It’s been a hectic first few weeks at DAZN for me. If you haven’t heard about us, we’re the Netflix of Sports — an affordable platform for streaming live sports. We are launched in 5 countries, with many more to … Weekly update 02Read More » The post Weekly update 02 appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

It’s common practice to set log level to WARNING for production due to traffic volume. This is because we have to consider various cost factors: cost of logging : CloudWatch Logs charges $0.50 per GB ingested. In my experience, this is often much higher than the Lambda invocation costs cost of storage : CloudWatch Logs charges $0.03 … You need to sample debug logs in productionRead More » The post You need to sample debug logs in production appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

Presently sponsored by: TotalCloud, a gamified AWS cloud management platform offering complete cloud visibility to today’s DevOps engineers & managers. On a single-pane of glass, users can get cost visibility, monitor & secure resources, and perform operations - all in real-time. part 1 : new challenges to observability part 2 : 1st party observability tools from AWS <- you are here part 3 : 3rd party observability tools part 4: the future of Serverless observability In part 1 we talked about the challenge[...]