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AppSync: how to inject table names into DynamoDB batch & transact operations

When working with CloudFormation, AWS recommends not to give explicit names to resources and let CloudFormation name them for you. This has several advantages: It’s harder for attackers to guess resource names such as S3 buckets or DynamoDB tables. You can deploy the same stack multiple times to the same account. This is useful when …

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Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls really so bad?

TL;DR – Lambda-to-Lambda calls are generally a bad idea except for some select use cases, such as: You’re running the Apollo server in a Lambda function. To offload secondary responsibilities to another function by invoking asynchronous (that is, using Event as InvocationType). Avoid synchronous lambda-to-lambda calls If you utter the words “I call a Lambda …

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Production-Ready Serverless is back (with improved curriculum)!

My 4-week Production-Ready Serverless workshop is back! With an improved and more comprehensive curriculum based on student feedback from the last run in May, when over 50 students from around the world took part. This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn best practices for building serverless applications by building an e-commerce solution from …

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AppSync: how to error on DynamoDB conditional check failures

TL;DR To make an AppSync DynamoDB resolver throw exceptions on conditional check errors, we need to check $context.error in the response mapping template ourselves. Like this: #if ( $ctx.error ) #if ( $ctx.error.type.equals(“DynamoDB:ConditionalCheckFailedException”) ) $util.error(“your error message”) #else $util.error($ctx.error.message, $ctx.error.type) #end #end $utils.toJson($context.result) And now, the longer version. The problem AppSync lets us perform DynamoDB …

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Skill up your serverless game with my new instructor-led online workshop

Have you been wondering about serverless but just don’t know how and where to start? Maybe you’re already building stuff with serverless, but don’t know if you’re doing it right? Are you unsure about the best practices for testing, monitoring and how to choose between similar services like SNS and EventBridge?   I have just …

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