A month ago, I shared how I built an affiliate tracking system in a weekend [1]. Since then, I’ve enhanced the system by integrating analytics reporting, enabling affiliates to gauge the performance of their URLs. In this post, I will describe how the system works and why I chose Amazon Timestream over DynamoDB. How …
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Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in October 2023. Podcast We aired three episodes on the Real-World Serverless podcast: #84 – Charity Majors on Observability, OTEL, AI ops, DevOps and Friday deploys #85 – AWS CDK dos and don’ts with Matthew Bonig #86 – AWS Serverless Hero on adopting CDK in …
The Serverless Framework remains a top choice for serverless development, as evidenced by the recent State of Serverless report [1]. Yet, its appeal has waned over time due to the lack of innovation in recent years, prompting users to explore other options. Recently, they announced [2] significant updates for Serverless v4: Fees will be introduced …
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Sharing code efficiently across different parts of an application can be challenging with AWS Lambda, especially when using Amplify. Today, I’ll walk you through a solution to this common problem, without relying on Lambda Layers or private NPM repositories. The Context In my previous post about Lambda Layers [1], I delved into its limitations, especially …
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Having taught thousands of students to build serverless applications via my online courses and workshops, I felt it was time to kick-start an affiliate program to boost sales. Affiliates would receive 50% of the revenue and get a 15% discount code for their audience. It feels like a good deal but I would need a …
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It’s a good practice to use CloudFormation’s DeletionPolicy to protect stateful resources such as DynamoDB tables or RDS databases from accidental deletions. Such as when someone accidentally deletes a CloudFormation stack! As I discussed previously [1], this is a much better way to guard against these accidental data losses than separating stateful and stateless resources …
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Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in September 2023. Podcast The first two episodes of this new format are available already: #82 – Big things are coming Lambda Powertools [Heitor Lessa] #83 – Unpacking Google’s latest AI announcements [Gerard Sans] The next episode with Charity Majors is airing on Oct 3rd …
Many vendors require you to have a static IP address for your application. Such that all requests to their API must originate from an allow-list of IP addresses. In some cases, they even mandate that you use a static IP address for ingress traffic too. So they can communicate with your system through a trusted …
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Step Functions’ state machines come in two flavours. By understanding their strengths and limitations, you can harness the combined power of both to optimize your processes for efficiency and cost. Standard Workflows Optimal for: Business-critical operations like payment processing. Strengths: Suitable for low-throughput scenarios. High maximum duration ensures enough time for retries using exponential backoff. …
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Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in August 2023. Real-World Serverless podcast relaunched After a hiatus, the real-world serverless podcast is back and better than ever before. It’s now available on YouTube as well as the usual podcast platforms such as Spotify. This new audio + video format gives guest speakers …
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