The Register published an article right before Christmas 2018. It talks about inflated serverless costs, but it largely misses the point and focuses on the wrong workloads. The whitepaper the article refers to provides some interesting analysis. However, the case studies it used to make its point are not representative of what most developers do. …
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As we approach the completion of my video course Production-Ready Serverless, I have also delivered the course in a classroom setting with both SimplyBusiness and the DVLA in the UK. In the coming months, I will also be running public workshops at various conferences and user groups: AWS User Group 17th Oct @ The Telegraph, London (sold …
Production-Ready Serverless is coming to a workshop near you! Read More »
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) { … } …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my keynote at ServerlessDays TLV is now live! In this talk, I looked at a number of important lessons we learnt from the Microservices world and how they are still relevant to us as move to Serverless, and we can apply past learnings and …
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In a previous post we discussed how to auto-subscribe a CloudWatch Log Group to a Lambda function using CloudWatch Events. So that we don’t need a manual process to ensure all Lambda logs would go to our log aggregation service. Whilst this is useful in its own right, it only scratches the surface of what …
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It’s common practice to set log level to WARNING for production due to traffic volume. This is because we have to consider various cost factors: cost of logging : CloudWatch Logs charges $0.50 per GB ingested. In my experience, this is often much higher than the Lambda invocation costs cost of storage : CloudWatch Logs charges $0.03 …
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