part 1: overview <- you’re here part 2: testing and CI/CD part 3: ops part 4: building a scalable notification system part 5: building a better recommendation system Since Yubl’s closure quite a few people have asked about the serverless architecture we ended up with and some of the things we have learnt along the …
Yubl’s road to Serverless architecture – overview Read More »
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First of all, apologies for taking months to write this up since part 1, I have been extremely busy since joining Yubl. We have done a lot of work with AWS Lambda and I hope to share more of the lessons we have learnt soon, but for now take a look at this slidedeck to get a flavour. …
AWS Lambda – use recursive function to process SQS messages (Part 2) Read More »
Simplifying things in our daily lives “Life is complicated… but we use simple abstractions to deal with it.” – Adrian Cockcroft When people say “it’s too complicated”, what they usually mean is “there are too many moving parts and I can’t figure out what it’s going to do next, that I haven’t figured out an …
Takeaways from “Simplifying the Future” by Adrian Cockcroft Read More »
When working with AWS Lambda, one of the things to keep in mind is that there’s a per region limit of 75GB total size for all deployment packages. Whilst that sounds a lot at first glance, our small team of server engineers managed to rack up nearly 20GB of deployment packages in just over 3 months! Whilst …
AWS Lambda – janitor-lambda function to clean up old deployment packages Read More »
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Since I started working at Yubl less than 2 weeks ago, I have been doing a lot of work with Amazon API Gateway & Lambda with the help of the Serverless framework. So far that experience has been really great. One little caveat I ran into was that, it wasn’t clear on how to enable caching …
Serverless – enable caching on query string parameters in API Gateway Read More »
Learn you to tame complex APIs with F#-powered DSLs from Yan Cui
On application monitoring In the Gamesys social team, our view on application monitoring is such that anything that runs in production needs to be monitored extensively all the time – every service entry point, IO operations or CPU intensive tasks. Sure, it comes at the cost of a few CPU cycles which might mean that …
If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you consume, or better still, custom metrics that you publish about your service. On top of that, you …
Introducing, DSLs to query against Amazon CloudWatch metrics Read More »
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