Tweet At Yubl, we arrived at a non-trivial serverless architecture where Lambda and Kinesis became a prominent feature of this architecture. Whilst our experience using Lambda with Kinesis was great in general, there was a couple of lessons that we had to learn along the way. Here are 3 useful tips to help you avoid

As someone who enjoys being at the intersection of the academic world and the world of industry, I'm very happy to see any attempts at bridging this harmful gap. For this reason, it is great to see that more people are interested in reading academic papers and that initiatives like Papers We Love are there to help. There is one caveat with academic papers though. It is very easy to see academic papers as containing eternal and unquestionable truths, rather than as something that the reader should actively[...]

Tweet An interesting requirement came up at work this week where we discussed potentially having to run our own URL Shortener because the Universal Links mechanism (in iOS 9 and above) requires a JSON manifest at https://domain.com/apple-app-site-association Since the OS doesn’t follow redirects this manifest has to be hosted on the URL shortener’s root domain. Owing to a limitation

Tweet Hello, just a quick note to say thanks to everyone who attended the AWS user group meetup last night, was a pleasure to talk to many of you afterwards. As promised, here are the slides for my talk from last night. AWS Lambda from the trenches from Yan Cui Tweet

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 function.   The Test see the test code here. I created a simple Lambda function for each platform that