If you’re using CDK, you should use L3 constructs to encapsulate common patterns and best practices in your architecture. However, sometimes you'd find a 3rd-party L3 construct that does most of what you want, but you need to customize how it configures some of its resources. That can be tricky because you don't own the source code, and the construct author might not be willing to make the changes you want. In this article, let me show you an easy and effective way to do this without having to clone and ma[...]

Here is the biggest mistake many teams make when they try to adopt serverless and why they ultimately fail. Don't make the same mistake. The post I’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrong appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

AppSync now supports invoking Lambda resolvers asynchronously. This simplifies a common challenge in GenAI applications where we had to hand off the call to the LLM to a background function so we can stream the LLM response back to the caller. The post AppSync’s new async Lambda resolver is great news for GenAI apps appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

Here's everything I've been up to so far in 2024 - blogs, videos, podcasts, public talks, workshops The post 2024 update: Jan – April appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

Step Functions lets you set a timeout on both Task states and the whole execution. By default, an execution can run for a year if TimeoutSeconds is not configured. To a user, the execution would appear as “stuck”. Which is why AWS best practices recommend using timeouts to avoid such scenarios. But once you have configured a timeout for the execution, it's then important to consider what happens when you experience a timeout. In this post, let's explore 3 ways you can handle an execution timeout and use a [...]