Update 04/08/2022: turns out there are some valid reasons (analytics and potentially SEO) for redirecting from the apex domain to www. Please see comments from Michael Hart, Mike Lamb and Tyler Love to my tweet here for more details.   I have used Amplify[...]

Lambda invocations are charged in 100ms blocks of execution time. But the cost per 100ms of execution time depends on how much memory you allocate to the function. The higher the memory, the more CPU cycles and network bandwidth, but the higher the cost a[...]

In the following series I will explore different tools and techniques for doing object detection in streaming video in real time or faster. Starting with the baseline Python detector running slowly and gradually picking up speed. In these series In the co[...]

Source code for the finished project is here. NVIDIA TensorRT is a framework used to optimize deep networks for inference by performing surgery on graphs trained with popular deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow, Caffe, etc. Preparing the Tensorflow Graph[...]

Presently sponsored by Binaris: Binaris is a cloud platform that enables developers to build entire applications out of serverless functions. Binaris is designed from the ground up to be fast and responsive, so you can use serverless functions across mult[...]

Presently sponsored by Thundra: Stop wasting time digging through logs to chase latencies, cold starts, and errors in AWS Lambda. Immediately pinpoint problems in your code and identify critical improvement areas. Free to use, Thundra provides a end-to-en[...]

Background There are three things you need to know to start with: Operations on read-only variables which are value types copy the variable value first. I’ve written about this before on this blog. C# 7.2 addresses this by introducing the readonly modifie[...]

Tweet AWS announced binary support for API Gateway in late 2016, which opened up the door for you to use more efficient binary formats such as Google’s Protocol Buffers and Apache Thrift. Why? Compared to JSON – which is the bread and butter for APIs buil[...]

Tweet As Lambda adds nodejs 6.10 to its supported platforms I wondered if there’s any performance differences between the platforms. Thankfully the templates in the Serverless framework make it a relative breeze to test it out with a simple HelloWorld fun[...]

I’ve been following the progress of .NET Core with a lot of interest, and trying to make the Noda Time master branch keep up with it. The aim is that when Noda Time 2.0 eventually ships (apologies for the delays…) it will be compatible with .NET Core from[...]