As smartphones and mobile internet become more advanced, many apps have implemented media-rich experiences that connect content creators with end users. Sharing and consuming video is exceptionally popular among smartphone users, leading to the rise of interactive, social video. While mobile video streaming is popular, it’s often difficult for app Read more…
This post is courtesy of Prateek Mehrotra, Software Development Engineer. AWS Lambda integrates natively with Amazon Kinesis as a consumer to process data ingested through a data stream. The polling, checkpointing, and error handling complexities are abstracted when you use this native integration. This allows the Lambda function code to Read more…
Most serverless application architectures use a combination of different AWS services, microservices, and AWS Lambda functions. Messaging services are important in allowing distributed applications to communicate with each other, and are fundamental to most production serverless workloads. Messaging services can improve the resilience, availability, and scalability of applications, when used Read more…
By Jobin George, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS By Michael Coughlin, Director, Global Partner Solutions at Confluent By Joseph Morais, AWS Evangelist, Global Partner Solutions at Confluent There has been tremendous adoption of Apache Kafka throughout the years, and developers are increasingly using Kafka as the foundation for their event Read more…
By Jobin George, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS By Michael Coughlin, Director, Global Partner Solutions at Confluent By Joseph Morais, AWS Evangelist, Global Partner Solutions at Confluent There has been tremendous adoption of Apache Kafka throughout the years, and developers are increasingly using Kafka as the foundation for their event Read more…
Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs enable you to create RESTful APIs with lower latency and lower cost than API Gateway REST APIs. The API Gateway team is continuing work to improve and migrate popular REST API features to HTTP APIs. We are adding two of the most requested features, AWS Read more…
When you want to optimize your Java application on AWS Lambda for performance and cost the general steps are: Build, measure, then optimize! To accomplish this, you need a solid monitoring mechanism. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray are well suited for this task since they already provide lots of data Read more…
AppSync has built-in logging integration with CloudWatch Logs (see here for more details on the logging options). You can set the Field resolver log level to NONE, ERROR or ALL. When the field resolver log level is set to NONE or ERROR, you don’t get a lot of value from Read more…
We recently released our first (minimal) set of breaking changes in the Serverless Framework, in over 4 years, prompted by deprecating support for old Node.js versions. These breaking changes are included in the new v2 release. Here is a quick article to detail the breaking changes and how they may Read more…
This post is courtesy of Justin Pirtle, Principal Serverless Solutions Architect. Today, AWS is introducing certificate-based mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication for Amazon API Gateway. This is a new method for client-to-server authentication that can be used with API Gateway’s existing authorization options. By default, the TLS protocol only Read more…