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 ›
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🌿 What Is Amazon Greengrass and Why It’s a Game-Changer for Edge Computing
In today’s connected world, billions of devices generate vast amounts of data every second — from industrial sensors to smart home devices. Sending all that data to the cloud for processing can be slow, expensive, and sometimes impractical. This is… Read More ›
Creating a Lambda Warmer with AWS CDK and TypeScript
In this guide, we’ll create an AWS Lambda function that acts as a “warmer” to keep another Lambda function warm, reducing cold start times. We’ll use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and TypeScript. Prerequisites Ensure you have the following… Read More ›
The Simple Web Service in AWS CDK
The Simple Web Service is one of the best simple patterns that you will often see in a serverless architecture. Coined by Jeremy Daly – https://www.jeremydaly.com/serverless-microservice-patterns-for-aws/#simplewebservice this stack is a great one to build for a fundamental web application. The… 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 ›
Deploying a site to AWS with the CDK
In the following we will create a CloudFront, s3 with lambda@edge based website. AWS is not free and you may be charged for services used. So, I got through a renewal email for some hosting I had with GoDaddy and… Read More ›