It’s been a while coming, but I’m excited to announce that my new course – Complete guide to AWS Step Functions – is now live! You can browse the curriculum and purchase the course here. The first two chapters are free to everyone. The course is approximately 2 hours in length and covers everything you need …
With serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you—the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the …
If you’re not familiar with how cold start works within the context of AWS Lambda, then read this post first. update 24/03/2019: the tests include WebPack as well. When a Node.js Lambda function cold starts, a number of things happen: the Lambda service has to find a server with enough capacity to host the new …
The Serverless Framework [1] is still the most popular deployment framework for serverless applications. It gives you a convenient abstraction over CloudFormation and some best practices out of the box: Filters out dev dependencies for Node.js function. Update deployment packages to S3, which lets you work around the default 50MB limit on deployment packages. Enforces …
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Update 15/03/2019: Thanks to Zac Charles who pointed me to this new page in the DynamoDB docs. It explains how the OnDemand capacity mode works. Turns out you DON’T need to pre-warm a table. You just need to create the table with the desired peak throughput (Provisioned), and then change it to OnDemand. After you change the table to OnDemand …
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CloudWatch Events let you easily create cron jobs with Lambda. However, it’s not designed for running lots of ad-hoc tasks, each to be executed once, at a specific time. The default limit on CloudWatch Events is a lowly 100 rules per region per account. It’s a soft limit, so it’s possible to request a limit …
I recently watched an excellent talk by Matt Lavin on optimization tips for Lambda and saw a slide on making DynamoDB use HTTP keep-alive. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Sebastian Cohnen, so I set out to test the effect this simple optimization has. What is it all about? As it turns …
Lambda optimization tip – enable HTTP keep-alive Read More »
A use case happened at work recently, where we need to subscribe a SQS queue to a SNS topic running in another AWS account. On the surface this seems like something many people would need to do, and indeed I was able to find an official tutorial pretty quickly. But the tutorial is all “click …
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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. …
You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong Read More »
Years ago, I used average latency on every dashboard and every alarm. That is, until I woke up to the problems of average latencies along with everybody else in the industry: When the dataset is small it can be easily skewed by a small number of outliers. When the dataset is large it can hide …
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