In my last post we talked about how we can implement semaphores with Step Functions. Another common scenario that many people have is to handle errors from a block of states like we’re used to with a try-catch block. try { step1() step2() step3() } catch (States.Timeout) { … } catch (States.ALL) { … } …
Step Functions : apply try-catch to a block of states Read More »
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless We have released 2 new videos on my video course Production-Ready Serverless, this time around cold starts, which is easily the most frequently asked question I get! Life cycle of a Lambda function Strategies to minimize cold starts Remember, whilst the course is still …
If you haven’t been paying close attention you might have missed the API Gateway announcement for resource policies. It later played a key role in supporting API Gateway private endpoints – a way to put your API inside a private VPC. To configure resource policies with the Serverless framework, you need to upgrade to v1.28.0 or …
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First of all, I would like to thank all of you for following and reading my content. My post on centralised logging for AWS Lambda has been viewed more than 20K times by now, so it is clearly a challenge that many of you have run into. In the post, I outlined an approach of …
Centralised logging for AWS Lambda, REVISED (2018) Read More »
Here at DAZN, we are migrating from our legacy platform into a brave new world of microfrontends and microservices. Along the way, we also discovered the delights that AWS Step Function has to offer, for example… flexible error handling and retry the understated ability to wait between tasks the ability to mix automated steps with …
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Hi, welcome to another weekly update! MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless We have released a number of new videos on my video course Production-Ready Serverless: auto-capture incoming correlation IDs via SNS messages forward correlation IDs via SNS messages summary We will publish the next videos on cold starts soon. Remember, whilst the course is still …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! I’m an AWS Serverless Hero! First, I have an exciting news to share with you. AWS announced new categories of their community heroes program and I’m proud to be selected as one of the new Serverless Heroes, alongside some of the most influential thought leaders in the serverless space. …
Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Welcome Epsagon as our sponsor for June! I love writing and sharing everything I learn, but for a very long time I had to fund that habit using ads that get in the way of your viewing experience. Which is why I’m really grateful to my sponsors like Epsagon …
After watching the talks at Monitorama for a few years, I finally have the chance to attend this year and share my insights on serverless observability on Wednesday. Day 1 was great (despite my massive jet lag!), and the talks were mostly focused on the human side of monitoring. Of the talks two stood out …
Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my talk at the recent AWS User Group meetup is now live! In this talk, I introduced the core concepts of chaos engineering, and the challenges that the Serverless paradigm brings to the existing tools and practices we use. I then looked at techniques …
Video and slides for my talk “applying principles of chaos engineering to Serverless” Read More »
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