At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced that you can package and deploy AWS Lambda functions as container images. Packaging AWS Lambda functions as container images brings some notable benefits for developers running custom runtimes, such as PHP. This blog post explains those benefits and shows how to use the new container Read more…
In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This three-part section discusses event-driven architectures and how these relate to Lambda-based applications. Part 1 covers the benefits of the event-driven paradigm and how it can improve throughput, scale Read more…
This blog post is courtesy of Sebastian Caceres (AWS Consultant, DevOps), Otavio Ferreira (Sr. Manager, Amazon SNS), Prachi Sharma and Mary Gao (Software Engineers, Amazon SNS). Today, we are announcing the release of a message delivery protocol for Amazon SNS based on Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This is a new Read more…
This post was contributed by Matthew Coulter, Technical Architect at Liberty Mutual. In the summer of 2019, I successfully applied for a promotion to the position of account architect at Liberty IT Solutions, a part of Liberty Mutual Group. This changed everything, as I went from being the systems architect Read more…
By Brandon Schur, Database Engineer at AWS Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, cloud-native data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence tools. Many companies are using Amazon Redshift to analyze and transform their data. As data continues Read more…
AWS Lambda launched support for packaging and deploying functions as container images at re:Invent 2020. In this post you learn how to build container images that reduce image size as well as build, deployment, and update time. Lambda container images have unique characteristics to consider for optimization. This means that Read more…
In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This three-part series discusses event-driven architectures and how these relate to serverless applications. Part 1 covers the benefits of the event-driven paradigm and how it can improve throughput, scale Read more…
By Adam Sobol, Founder and CEO at CareBand By Steven Chen, Product Manager at CareBand By Irshad A Buchh, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the United States and worldwide, institutions are working tirelessly to ensure they are prepared, whether that means teaching Read more…
This post is courtesy of Markus Ziller, Solutions Architect. Today, git is a de facto standard for version control in modern software engineering. The workflows enabled by git’s branching capabilities are a major reason for this. However, with git’s distributed nature, it can be difficult to reliably remove changes that Read more…
Welcome to the 12th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our Read more…