CloudWatch Events let you easily create cron jobs with Lambda. However, it’s not designed for running lots of ad-hoc tasks, each to be executed once, at a specific time. The default limit on CloudWatch Events is a lowly 100 rules per region per account. It’s a soft limit, so it’s possible to request a limit …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update. Production-Ready Serverless is live! It’s been a long time coming, my Manning video course Production-Ready Serverless is officially completed! All postscripts and other course materials have been added to the course. Manning is also running a special promotion for March so that ALL video courses are $25 each, what …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update. New posts AWS Lambda and Secret Management. In this post I gave a lowdown on SSM Parameter Store, AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault. We discussed when, why and how to choose between them and several approaches to loading secrets into your functions. Podcasts Real World DevOps. I spoke …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update. Welcome Thundra as our sponsor for Feburary! It is my pleasure to welcome Thundra as sponsor for this month. Here’s a message from Thundra to explain what they’re building and their vision for Serverless observability. A serverless application eliminates operational burdens and you only pay for what you use …
I recently watched an excellent talk by Matt Lavin on optimization tips for Lambda and saw a slide on making DynamoDB use HTTP keep-alive. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Sebastian Cohnen, so I set out to test the effect this simple optimization has. What is it all about? As it turns …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update. New posts You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong. This is my response to the click-bait article published in The Register that clearly illustrated widespread misunderstanding when it comes to understanding the financial benefits of serverless. Many have discussed the cost savings serverless can give you in terms …
A use case happened at work recently, where we need to subscribe a SQS queue to a SNS topic running in another AWS account. On the surface this seems like something many people would need to do, and indeed I was able to find an official tutorial pretty quickly. But the tutorial is all “click …
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The Register published an article right before Christmas 2018. It talks about inflated serverless costs, but it largely misses the point and focuses on the wrong workloads. The whitepaper the article refers to provides some interesting analysis. However, the case studies it used to make its point are not representative of what most developers do. …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update. I’m going independent :-) Firstly, a big update on a personal front – I’ve transitioned into a part-time role at DAZN so I can start a career as an independent consultant. My goal here is to use my expertise to help businesses accelerate their time-to-market through the use of …
As the curtain draws on 2018, let’s a look back at what I have been up to this year. On public speaking It’s been a crazy year for me in terms of public speaking. I had a whopping 64 public speaking engagements in 2018, that took me to 22 cities in 10 countries. I spoke at re:invent …
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