Presently sponsored by Snap.hr: Snap.hr is a transparent job hunting platform built for developers by developers. On Snap.hr, 3rd party recruiters are banned, and companies are always upfront about the role and salary. Snap puts developers in the driving seat, so you never feel hassled or left waiting. It's how hiring should be. Hi, welcome to another weekly update :-) New posts Getting the most out of CloudWatch Logs. In this post, I took a deep dive into the CloudWatch Logs service, looking at how it wor[...]

Presently sponsored by Snap.hr: Snap.hr is a transparent job hunting platform built for developers by developers. On Snap.hr, 3rd party recruiters are banned, and companies are always upfront about the role and salary. Snap puts developers in the driving seat, so you never feel hassled or left waiting. It's how hiring should be. A client asked me the other day: “What happens to the running executions when I update a state machine?” Sadly, the answer is likely that existing executions would break if you hav[...]

Presently sponsored by Thundra: Built for straightforward observability, Thundra lets you analyze serverless architectures with correlated metrics, logs, and traces with no code change. Thundra’s full tracing ability combines distributed and local tracing enabling users to discover errors in seconds. Sign up for free. Imagine the situation. It’s 3 AM, and PagerDuty alerts you that the number of 5XX errors has spiked. Something’s wrong. Strange, there are no error logs… Fortunately, we have enabled X-Ray tr[...]

Presently sponsored by Thundra: Built for straightforward observability, Thundra lets you analyze serverless architectures with correlated metrics, logs, and traces with no code change. Thundra’s full tracing ability combines distributed and local tracing enabling users to discover errors in seconds. Sign up for free. Over the last 6 months, we have made the Serverless Step Functions plugin better and more useful. Here are the most impactful changes, in case you missed it! Support for intrinsic function On[...]

Presently sponsored by Thundra: Built for straightforward observability, Thundra lets you analyze serverless architectures with correlated metrics, logs, and traces with no code change. Thundra’s full tracing ability combines distributed and local tracing enabling users to discover errors in seconds. Sign up for free. I spent time with a client this week to solve an interesting problem – to adjust the number of concurrent requests to a downstream service dynamically based on response time and error rate. T[...]