Tag: Serverless
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Google Firebase with dotnet6
Posted on October 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Google Firestore is a document-oriented database that has some neat features for building modern apps as part of the Firebase offering. In most respects, I find it is conceptually similar to AWS Amplify on the surface. Having now worked with both, they feel very different in practice. By Charles Chen.
Tags nosql app-development google gcp serverless
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Five ways to reduce costs with containers
Posted on October 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article, Google Cloud Product Manager Rachel Tsao explores how to save on compute costs with modern container platforms. Many tech companies and startups are built to operate under a certain degree of pressure and to efficiently manage costs and resources. These pressures have only increased with inflation, geopolitical shifts, and supply chain concerns, however, creating urgency for companies to find ways to preserve capital while increasing flexibility. The right approach to containers can be crucial to navigating these challenges. By Rachel Tsao.
Tags microservices devops serverless containers cloud
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Introducing workerd: Open source workers runtime
Posted on September 28, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Introduction to workerd, the JavaScript/Wasm runtime based on the same code that powers Cloudflare Workers. workerd is Open Source under the Apache License version 2.0. workerd shares most of its code with the runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers, but with some changes designed to make it more portable to other environments. By Kenton Varda.
Tags serverless devops software-architecture apis cloud infosec
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This is how we scale: Using a centralized logging solution
Posted on August 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Our current centralized logging solution is Logz.io: Cloud Observability for Engineers and most of our application logs are sent there from the k8s cluster. In addition, we use the logging system's alert mechanism to trigger and send alerts to various sources, including email, Slack channels, etc. By Uriah Ahrak.
Tags devops aws app-development software-architecture serverless monitoring
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Angular landing page with Airtable integration and Netlify functions
Posted on July 29, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you want to build a public landing page with Angular and email signup you likely don't want to expose any secret keys, and author will show you how with Netlify cloud functions. By Simon Grimm.
Tags angular nodejs serverless app-development javascript
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Separate stateful infrastructure with Serverless Compose
Posted on July 4, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the most significant benefits of serverless is that the development teams can fully own and manage all of their infrastructure themself. Keeping all of that infrastructure in the same CloudFormation stack can sometimes be troublesome however, and there are many reasons why you might consider having parts of it in a separate stack. By Sebastian Bille.
Tags app-development serverless web-development agile devops
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Lessons learned from combining SQS and Lambda in a data project
Posted on June 26, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The built-in functionality of SQS and Lambda provided us serverless, scalable and fault-tolerant basis, but while running the solution we also learned some important lessons. In this blog post I will discuss the issue of valid messages ending up in dead-letter queues (DLQ) and correctly configuring your DLQ to catch only erroneous messages from your source SQS queue. By Miia Niemelä.
Tags serverless software-architecture machine-learning performance big-data
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Archive DynamoDB items to S3 automatically
Posted on April 5, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Storing data like JSON logs in DynamoDB is a great idea as DynamoDB is very scalable. In addition, it is easier to transfer data into a DynamoDB table using for example Lambda and AWS SDK. Also, it makes analyzing the logs easier for example the AWS Console offers great filtering options to search for specific so-called table items. By Martin Mueller.
Tags aws serverless learning nosql database
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Optimizing AWS Lambda function performance for Java
Posted on April 3, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This blog post shows how to optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions written in Java, without altering any of the function code. It shows how Java virtual machine (JVM) settings affect the startup time and performance. You also learn how you can benchmark your applications to test these changes. By Benjamin Smith and Mark Sailes.
Tags apis performance app-development serverless web-development java
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Build at the Edge with OpenFaaS and GitHub actions
Posted on March 10, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learn how GitHub Actions and OpenFaaS can be used for simple functions at the edge of your network. If you're running Kubernetes in production then you'll be aware of how difficult it can be to operate. Not only do you need to learn its concepts and API, but if you extend it in any way, then you'll be needing to maintain all your custom changes over time. As the author of several applications and operators targeting Kubernetes, I have to dedicate much of my time to maintenance and migrations. By Alex Ellis.
Tags serverless web-development app-development apis iot
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How using same programming language for IaC made AWS Step Function testable
Posted on January 28, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
AWS Step Functions are difficult to test. I found an approach to testing that helped in one particular scenario. It relies on using the same programming language for both testing and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I hope the idea helps others tame their Step Functions into a testable submission. By Graham Allan.
Tags nosql cloud devops microservices tdd serverless
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Best practices for using AWS StepFunctions
Posted on January 24, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this post you will learn some of the best patterns/tricks author has learned during my time creating Step Functions workflows. By Lukas Fruntke.
Tags aws devops cio containers javascript serverless