The case for and against Amazon Cognito
Should you consider Amazon Cognito in your project?
We’ve got the pros & cons for you, and many of the painpoints you need to consider.
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My top picks from re:Invent 2020 week 1
All the sessions during week 1 are available to watch on-demand now. You can access them via the official reinvent portal here. Here are my top picks for sessions to watch, in no particular order. “Building technology standards at Amazon scale” by Marc Brooker You can watch the session here, and here‘s my notes for the session. “Monitoring …
What you need to know about Aurora Serverless v2, so far.
I’ve gotten a few questions about Aurora Serverless v2 preview, so here is what you need to know about Aurora Serverless v2 during preview. Q: Does it replace the existing Aurora Serverless offering? A: No, it lives side-by-side with the existing Aurora Serverless, which will still be available to you as “v1”. Q: …
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Serverless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1
During this re:Invent, I’m sharing with you the biggest serverless-related announcements and what they mean for you in a series of hot-takes. Starting with, the biggest announcements from today’s keynote, plus a bunch of other important announcements just before r:Invent. 1. Lambda changes billing to per ms Lambda now bills you by the ms as …
How I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless
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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“Even simple serverless applications have complex architecture diagrams”, so what?
I often hear people complain that even simple serverless architectures look complex on paper.
Let me tell you why this misses the point.
AppSync Masterclass is open for early access!
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 …
How to sample AppSync resolver logs
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, …
How to set up custom domain names for AppSync
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 …
Choreography vs Orchestration in the land of serverless
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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