Tag: Serverless
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Lambda deployment frameworks compared
Posted on April 19, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A comparison piece by Yan Cui about underlying plumbing when deploying Lambda function to AWS. One needs to be able manage the configuration for functions as well as other related resources such as API Gateway, CloudWatch log groups and IAM policies.
Tags serverless aws web-development cloud
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The good and the bad of Google Cloud Run
Posted on April 14, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Ben Kehoe wrote a blog post which is a general critique of Cloud Run relative to FaaS and managed API services -- and how this is different from AWS Lambda.
Tags cloud google serverless aws
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Comparing serverless architecture providers: AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and other FaaS vendors
Posted on April 12, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This is comparison between the largest serverless vendors (and some open source alternatives) has all the right metrics. From the pen of Ihor Lobastov published in March 2019.
Tags cloud web-development serverless apis
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Authentication at Edge with StackPath
Posted on January 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Jason Byrne thoughts on using cloud Edge for some common tasks. As we spread our applications out into serverless microservices, what better place for our entitlement checks than on the CDN?
Tags web-development serverless apis infosec javascript
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Create your first AWS Lambda using Rust
Posted on December 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Blog post by Konstantin Kostov about how he created serverless function in Rust programming language and deployed it to AWS. It was an example AWS Lambda function tasked with checking if a provided serial number is correct and that it is unique (not already part of an existing dataset).
Tags programming functional-programming software serverless streaming
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Combining Amazon Aurora, Lambda, and SQS to go beyond the native capabilities of MySQL
Posted on November 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
David Yahalom posted on redgate Hub about innovative combination of Amazon Aurora, serverless Lambda and Simple Que Service to strecth MySQL beyond native capabilities.
Tags mysql serverless aws devops miscellaneous queues
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Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust
Posted on November 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Andre Arko blog post about dealing with logs for very busy web application behind RubyGems.org. A single day of request logs was usually around 500 gigabytes on disk. They tried few hosted logging products, but at their volume they can typically only offer a retention measured in hours. The only thing they could think of to do with the full log firehose was to run it through gzip -9 and then drop it in AWS S3.
Tags json software programming serverless streaming
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Microservices for Java developers: Implementing microservices (synchronous, asynchronous, reactive, non-blocking)
Posted on November 2, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length short
Andrey Redko published this guide how to implement microservices for Java developers. There is a variety of paradigms you may encounter while implementing the internals of your microservices.
Tags java serverless programming microservices
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Create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation
Posted on November 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Niklas Heidloff and Mark Sturdevant from IBM on hot Alexa skills topic. In it you will find how to create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation. Apart from Alexa you will also use Watson to discuss the weather, build a conversation, or choose one from a library. Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project.
Tags javascript serverless ibm bots miscellaneous nosql
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Service mesh: promise or peril?
Posted on October 28, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Richard Li about service meshes such as Istio, Linkerd, and Cilium which are gaining increased visibility as companies adopt microservice architectures. Richard Li is the CEO/co-founder of Datawire, which builds open source tools for developers on Kubernetes.
Tags serverless cloud microservices
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Google Cloud Functions for Go
Posted on October 24, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
JBD from Google engineering team shared this guide and experiences how to migrate services to Google Cloud Functions for golang.
Tags golang google gcp serverless
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Introduction to AWS Well-Architected Framework
Posted on July 3, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An interesting article on devopedia about Amazon Web Services' Weell-Architected framework (WAFR). Cloud platforms offer a number of services. A typical application can use one or more of these services, each of which can be configured in a number of different ways. AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAFR) offers a set of guidelines and best practices to help practitioners migrate, manage and optimize their applications and their operations on the AWS cloud.
Tags programming serverless aws software-architecture