I have been involved with a client project to help the client launch a new social network for university students to engage with each other to do sports. Amongst other things, users can: Arrange activities and ask to join others’ activities (like a basketball match or to run in the park). There’s private messaging. Users …
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A common complaint I have heard about serverless applications is that they tend to look really complicated on architecture diagrams, with many moving parts. But does it mean serverless applications are more complex compared to their serverful counterparts? Before I get to that, let’s do a simple exercise. Serverful architectures Which of these two serverful …
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My Production-Ready Serverless workshop is back in January 2021 and will feature all the latest changes and features from re:Invent 2020. This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn best practices for building serverless applications by building an e-commerce solution from scratch. By the end of the workshop, you should have a clear idea when serverless is a …
I have some exciting news to share with you. That after some initial delays, the AppSync Masterclass is now open for Early Access with 40% launch discount. First of all, thank you so much for your patience, it’s taken us a bit longer than we expected but we’re here, at last. You can purchase the …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Real-World Serverless podcast Since the last update, we have had quite a few new episodes, covering a wide range of topics: #25: Well-Architected Serverless with Heitor Lessa #26: Serverless chatbots with Gillian Armstrong #27: Serverless at A Cloud Guru with Dale Salter #28: Serverless Machine Learning with Carl Osipov …
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 the AppSync logs. For example, …
I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names. Your shiny new AppSync API is available at XYZ.appsync-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/graphql, but you really want people to use your own domain instead because dev.example.com/graphql is much …
I have been working with a US client to build a first-of-its-kind app for managing medical consents. It falls under HIPAA compliance and it’s paramount that we do not allow unauthorized access to user data. As part of the app, we have built an admin tool that will be used by admin staff from the …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Real-World Serverless podcast Since the last update, we have 4 new episodes for you: #21: From K8 to Serverless at Wealth Wizards #22: Real-World Serverless with Gojko Adzic #23: Serverless at Alma Media with Ari Palo #24: Serverless at Stedi with Zack Kanter New blog posts Choreography vs Orchestration …
Choreography and Orchestration are two modes of interaction in a microservices architecture. In orchestration, there is a controller (the ‘orchestrator’) that controls the interaction between services. It dictates the control flow of the business logic and is responsible for making sure that everything happens on cue. This follows the request-response paradigm. In choreography, every service …
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