Category: Serverless

This post is contributed by Daniele Stroppa, Sr. Solutions Architect In October 2019, AWS released an improvement to the getting started experience in the AWS Lambda console. This enables you to create applications that follow common best practices, using infrastructure as code (IaC). It also provides a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for […]

This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the Introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the example application. Question OPS2: […]

EventBridge is the evolution of the CloudWatch Events service. It brings new features, including the ability to integrate data from popular SaaS providers as events within AWS.

In this post, I walk through configuring streaming of API access logs from Amazon API Gateway to Amazon S3 via a Kinesis Firehose delivery stream.

Update – June 30, 2020: Amazon RDS Proxy support for MySQL and PostgreSQL is now generally available. In this post, you learn how to use an Amazon Aurora MySQL relational database in your serverless applications. I show how to pool and share connections to the database with Amazon RDS Proxy, and how to choose configurations. The […]

This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the Introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the example application. Question OPS2: […]

In part 2, I cover the API configuration, geohashing algorithm, and real-time messaging architecture used in the Ask Around Me web application. These are needed for receiving and processing questions and answers, and sending results back to users in real time. In this post, I explain the backend processing architecture, how data is aggregated, and […]

This post explores the backend architecture of the Ask Around Me application. I compare the cost and features in deciding between REST APIs and HTTP APIs in API Gateway. I introduce geohashing and the npm library used to handle geo-location queries in DynamoDB. And I show how you can build real-time messaging into your web applications using the publish-subscribe pattern with AWS IoT Core.

In this post, I introduce the Ask Around Me example web application. Learn to build a serverless realtime, Vue.js web app in part 1 of this series.

Update : You can find the supporting GitHub repository and parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to this series now. Part 2: Scaling relational databases Part 3: Replacing the web server Part 4: Building a serverless Laravel application Part 5: The CDK construct library for the serverless LAMP stack Part 6: From MVC to […]