Tweet CloudWatch Logs is hardly the ideal fit for all your logging needs, fortunately you can easily stream the logs to your preferred log aggregation service with AWS Lambda functions. This is the first of a 3-part mini series on managing your AWS Lambda logs. In part 1 we will look at how you can

Tweet You may not realise that you can write AWS Lambda functions in a recursive manner to perform long-running tasks. Here’s two tips to help you do it right. AWS Lambda limits the maximum execution time of a single invocation to 5 minutes. Whilst this limit might be raised in the future, it’s likely that you’ll

Tweet Threats to the security of our serverless applications take many forms, some are the same old foes we have faced before; some are new; and some have taken on new forms in the serverless world. As we adopt the serverless paradigm for building cloud-hosted applications, we delegate even more of the operational responsibilities to

Tweet TL;DR – AWS announced the long awaited auto scaling capability for DynamoDB, but we found it takes too long to scale up and doesn’t scale up aggressively enough as it’s held back by using consumed capacity as scaling metric rather than actual request count. Here at Space Ape Games we developed an in-house tech to auto scale

Tweet One of the complaints developers often have for AWS Lambda is the inability to run and debug functions locally. For Node.js at least, the Serverless framework and VS Code provides a good solution for doing just that. An often underused feature of the Serverless framework is the invoke local command, which runs your code locally