December Tech Vibe Check
A developer's year-end reflections on their cloud tech stack, including migrating to Cloud Run, experimenting with Fly.io, and using GitHub Pages.
A developer's year-end reflections on their cloud tech stack, including migrating to Cloud Run, experimenting with Fly.io, and using GitHub Pages.
A developer details migrating a blog comment system from Azure Functions to Cloudflare Workers, including setup and code examples.
A guide to enhancing AWS CloudWatch alarms for Lambda errors by adding detailed error messages to email notifications via a CDK construct or CloudFormation.
Introducing ServerlessSpy, a tool for writing fast, parallelizable integration tests and gaining real-time insights into serverless cloud events.
A guide to decomposing AWS SAM API Gateway and Lambda binding declarations into nested stacks to improve codebase maintainability.
A guide to boosting productivity by using OpenAPI, Zod, and SST to avoid rewriting data structures across API layers in a TypeScript serverless application.
A critique of serverless architecture for coupling app logic too tightly with cloud infrastructure, increasing complexity and risk for developers.
A guide on using k6 and TypeScript to perform load testing on serverless applications to identify scaling limits and AWS service quotas.
Explores nine common pitfalls in AWS serverless architecture that can lead to unexpected data loss, duplication, or inconsistency.
A developer investigates and solves random API timeouts by identifying and addressing slow AWS Lambda cold starts using metrics and X-Ray tracing.
An infographic exploring various practical use cases for Azure Functions, a serverless compute service.
Guide to using AWS SAM's new GraphQLApi resource to build and deploy serverless applications with AWS AppSync.
Explores using Momento's serverless cache to improve performance and reduce costs for MongoDB-backed serverless applications.
A tutorial on building a contact form with Nuxt3, Cloudflare Workers, Brevo's email API, and reCAPTCHA for spam protection.
Explores using the Serverless Framework within Amazon CodeCatalyst for streamlined CI/CD workflows and application deployment on AWS.
A critical opinion piece arguing that AWS Amplify is harmful for production use, especially its GraphQL data layer, and promotes simpler alternatives like Postgres.
A tutorial on creating an HTTP-triggered Azure Function using a custom handler written in the Go (Golang) programming language.
A guide on building an Azure Functions extension to read files from AWS S3, based on a talk at the Sydney Serverless Meetup.
A developer shares their experience building 'Jar', a minimal Python web framework from scratch, exploring framework APIs and deployment to Vercel.
Explains the difference between event-driven architectures and event-based compute in serverless applications on AWS.