AWS Compute Blog
Author: James Beswick
James Beswick leads the Serverless Developer Advocacy team at AWS. He works with AWS's developer customers to understand how serverless technologies can drastically change the way they think about building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Visit https://serverlessland.com for more serverless content.
Building a serverless tokenization solution to mask sensitive data
This post shows how to use AWS Serverless services to design a secure, reliable, and cost-optimized tokenization solution. It can be integrated with applications to protect sensitive information and manage access using strict controls with less operational overhead.
Replacing web server functionality with serverless services
I show how traditional web-server applications compare with their serverless counterparts. I show how the infrastructure is managed for you in serverless, and how code for serverless developers in primarily focused on business logic.
Building deep learning inference with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS
This post shows how you can use EFS for Lambda to deploy large DL libraries and models into a function for synchronous invocations.
Modeling business logic flows in serverless applications
Serverless applications can help you develop more agile applications that can scale automatically. By using serverless services in your architecture, this reduces the amount of boilerplate code. It also helps offload complex tasks to specialized services. As a result, a well-designed serverless application can be modified easily to deliver new feature requests, while maintaining high […]
Creating low-latency, high-volume APIs with Provisioned Concurrency
This post examines how cold starts impact performance in serverless backends for web applications. It shows how the most important focus area is usually synchronous APIs called by the frontend application. I explain options available for targeting cold starts in the Lambda service.
Integrating Amazon EventBridge and Amazon ECS
This post demonstrates how to set up a sample application for consuming events directly from EventBridge into a custom application hosted in ECS.
Load testing a web application’s serverless backend
In this post, I discuss focus areas for load testing of serverless applications, and highlight two tools commonly used. I show how to configure Artillery with customized functions, and how to run tests to simulate load on the Ask Around Me application.
Using AWS ParallelCluster serverless API for AWS Batch
In this post, I show how to integrate the AWS Batch CLI by AWS ParallelCluster with API Gateway.
Managing backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps
Web and mobile applications usually interact with a backend service, often via an API. Many front-end applications pass requests for processing, wait for a result, and then display this to the user. This synchronous approach is only one way to handle messages, but modern applications have alternatives to provide a better user experience. There are […]
Implementing geohashing at scale in serverless web applications
This blog post explores how you can solve geolocation queries using geohashing. I discuss how you should decide on the resolution of a geohash for your specific workload.