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-end, invocation-centric view into your serverless app. I recently watched an excellent talk by Matt Levin on optimization tips for Lambda and saw a slide on making DynamoDB use HTTP keep-alive. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Sebastian Cohnen, so[...]

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-end, invocation-centric view into your serverless app. Hi, welcome to another weekly update. New posts You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong. This is my response to the click-bait article published in The Register that clearly illustrated widespr[...]

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-end, invocation-centric view into your serverless app. A use case happened at work recently, where we need to subscribe a SQS queue to a SNS topic running in another AWS account. On the surface this seems like something many people would need to do, and inde[...]

Presently sponsored by: Protego’s serverless security technology provides unmatched visibility, security, and control over serverless applications from development to runtime. Our SaaS platform lets you get a handle on your growing serverless environment in less than 20 minutes. The Register published an article right before Christmas 2018. It had a somewhat provocative title, and somehow it ended up in my inbox from a few different sources. I felt the whitepaper the article refers to provided some interes[...]

Presently sponsored by: Protego’s serverless security technology provides unmatched visibility, security, and control over serverless applications from development to runtime. Our SaaS platform lets you get a handle on your growing serverless environment in less than 20 minutes. Hi, welcome to another weekly update. I’m going independent :-) Firstly, a big update on a personal front – I’ve transitioned into a part-time role at DAZN so I can start a career as an independent consultant. My goal here is to us[...]