Avoiding the Serverless Workflow Antipattern
A thinly veiled argument in favor of managed services.
Blogposts
Appreciation for Community Managers
Holiday special.
Lambda Powertools TypeScript is Generally Available
What's changed since the first look?
How to Use Source Maps in TypeScript Lambda Functions (with Benchmarks)
Source Maps are needed to get useful stack traces out of TypeScript applications and they're easy to enable. See my benchmarks and you'll be using them in production too!
First Look at Lambda Powertools TypeScript
Lambda Powertools TypeScript hit beta, so I took a look!
AWS CDK v2 Tutorial - How to Create a Three-Tier Serverless Application
My first real beginner article and first for FreeCodeCamp. Set up a three-tier serverless app with AWS CDK and some nice tooling tricks.
Testing the Async Cloud with AWS CDK
How to test asynchronous workflows using EventBridge and Step Functions with CI/CD and automated rollback!
Building Real-Time Serverless Web Applications with AWS API Gateway WebSocket APIs
I collaborated with Andrew Brown for his 100 Days of Cloud blog to do a deep dive on WebSocketAPI. In the process, I built a game and learned quite a lot about API Gateway. My post was featured on hasnode.
Your Complete API Gateway and CORS Guide
This one came from a conversation I had with some developers who were struggling with CORS. Like virtually everybody else, I have to look this stuff up each time and the APIGW implementation is far from intuitive. I figured it would be a good idea to put it all down in one place!
AWS CDK - Fullstack Polyglot with Asset Bundling
Multi-language builds and infrastructure-as-code all in one place! I was really into golang in early 2021. I also wanted to really understand asset bundling in AWS CDK.
rego.fyi: A Study in Serverless Authorization with Open Policy Agent
Looking at using Open Policy Agent in a serverless environment. I think this is a good idea, but haven't applied this one yet. I did create a sample app at rego.fyi.
AWS CDK - One-Step S3 Websites with esbuild
Mixing React, esbuild and AWS CDK. This is before I learned of Vite. If I wrote this article today it would be much the same, but would use Vite instead of a custom esbuild.ts.
Mocking AWS with Jest (and TypeScript)
How I use lightweight (very, very lightweight) mocks to write unit tests in cloud native applications.
AWS CDK - aws-lambda-nodejs Module
Checking out the aws-lambda-nodejs construct from CDK. This was a great one to write because the first version of this construct was not something I was too keen on using. You can see in the article comments that Jonathan Goldwasser, construct author, was listening to feedback. A couple of versions later, I now consider the construct to be indespensible.
AWS CDK - API Gateway Service Integration with DynamoDB
One of the really cool things about being in the serverless space is you can connect managed services together with no compute. In this one, I build a direct API Gateway-DynamoDB integration with no Lambda.
Integrating SAM Into Container Workflows With http-lambda-invoker
I wrote a couple of articles about using the SAM framework before becoming invested in CDK. The problem I'm trying to solve here is how to introduce serverless to teams that are already working with containers. I didn't really get a chance to see this one through in practice, but there's always a chance I'll need to do this again some day.
Managing Multiple Functions with AWS SAM and Webpack
My other SAM article. Here I'm using Webpack to bundle TypeScript functions for use in SAM. I've seen shifted focus toesbuild and CDK.
Exploring AWS CDK - A Million a Minute (DynamoDB and ProviderFramework)
Using CDK and Custom Resources to generate a million random DynamoDB items in under a minute. Good for generating load and/or testing.
Exploring AWS CDK - Loading DynamoDB with Custom Resources
A data generator for DynamoDB using AWS CDK. Unlike the "million a minute" version, this one generates the data and plugs them right into the generated Cfn, so you get a pretty crazy template.
Exploring AWS CDK - Step Functions
My first CDK article! I wanted to learn both CDK and Step Functions and wound up learning them together by rewriting an example project.
On Figs and Apples
I found that strangling my application wasn't doing it and wanted to know why.