If you’ve been running serverless for a while, you’ve probably had that moment where your AWS bill makes you blink twice. Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway — individually cheap, collectively sneaky.The good news: with a few deliberate tweaks, you can keep… Read More ›
DynamoDB
Catch DynamoDB TTL Events
DynamoDB, AWS’s fast, flexible NoSQL serverless database service that provides single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, has many useful built-in features. In this article we are going to look at how the Time to Live (TTL) feature can be enable… Read More ›
AWS CDK – Serverless Website Monitoring
I recently have been playing around with some tools for monitoring websites but with these tools they can be an unnecessary expense for a start-up. So, I went and built my own monitoring stack in AWS CDK to monitor if… Read More ›
AWS CDK Fargate Schedular Write to DynamoDB
In this post I’ll show you how to create a scheduled Fargate task, in this case a locally developed node js Docker container that can push items to DynamoDB on a 1-minute timer. Checkout the Video version A simpler architecture… Read More ›