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Real-World Serverless: fully-serverless insurance company with Joe Emison

AWS, Lambda, Me, Real-World Serverless, Serverless

In this two-part conversation on Real-World Serverless, I spoke with Joe Emison about his experience with serverless and his latest venture, Branch, a home and auto insurance company that is built fully-serverlessly by a small team. Joe is easily one of the smartest people working with serverless technologies today and I’m very grateful that he …

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Real-World Serverless: state of serverless adoption at Zoopla

AWS, Lambda, Me, Real-World Serverless, Serverless

In the first-ever episode of Real-World Serverless, I spoke with Ricardo Espirito Santo about the state of serverless adoption at Zoopla – how they’re using serverless, their experience with it so far, and the challenges they have faced. Zoopla is a UK company in the real estate industry. They were founded in 2008 and their …

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Check-list for going live with API Gateway and Lambda

API Gateway, AWS, Lambda, Programming, Serverless

Disclaimer: this is a long list, you don’t need to tick every box to go-live. Think of them as a ladder, the more critical a system the higher you should try and climb. Observability Enable detailed monitoring to get per-method metrics (e.g. latency for GET /index). Without this, CloudWatch only reports aggregated metrics for all …

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Where Serverless plugin stops and platform starts

AWS, Lambda, Programming, Serverless

I’m a long-time user of the Serverless framework and a big fan of its plugin system. It offers tremendous flexibility and there exists a rich ecosystem of community-driven plugins. It’s easily the Serverless framework’s greatest strength and the reason why I keep going back to it. However, I have observed a common pattern where customers …

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The API Gateway security risk you need to pay attention to

API Gateway, AWS, Lambda, Programming, Security, Serverless

When you deploy an API to API Gateway, throttling is enabled by default in the stage configurations. By default, every method inherits its throttling settings from the stage. Having built-in throttling enabled by default is great. However, the default method limits – 10k req/s with a burst of 5000 concurrent requests – matches your account …

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All you need to know about caching for serverless applications

API Gateway, AWS, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Lambda, Programming, Serverless

Caching is still important for serverless architectures. Just because AWS Lambda auto-scales by traffic, it doesn’t mean we can forget about caching. In this post, let’s break down by caching is still relevant for serverless and where we can apply caching in a serverless architecture. Caching is still VERY relevant. Yes, Lambda auto-scales by traffic. …

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