Blog v3: simplifying and improving my blog
I deliberately built a complex AWS ecosystem for this blog to play and learn. Now I'm tearing it down. Here's why, and where things stand.
Serverless
12 articles and tutorials
AWS Step Functions in Action: Build, Migrate, and Simplify Your Serverless Architecture
Discover how AWS Step Functions can transform your serverless architecture. This article walks you through building workflows, deciding when to migrate from Lambda, exploring common patterns, and sharing practical best practices to simplify and maintain your applications.
Getting Started with AWS Step Functions: The Serverless Workflow You Need
Discover how AWS Step Functions can help you orchestrate serverless workflows effortlessly. In this article, I'll walk you through the basics, real-world examples, and why Step Functions might just be the missing piece in your serverless architecture.
Tutorial Building real-time applications with AWS AppSync and Subscriptions
Learn how to build real-time applications with AWS AppSync and Subscriptions.
Getting Started with AWS AppSync: A Practical Approach to GraphQL
This article walks you through the fundamentals of AWS AppSync, guiding you through the process of setting up, developing, and deploying a GraphQL API.
AWS Step Functions: An Introduction to Serverless Workflows
An introduction to AWS Step Functions, covering how they work and how to use them to build efficient, scalable serverless workflows.
Amazon API Gateway Integrations: Lambda, HTTP, Mock, AWS Services, and VPC Links
A walkthrough of Amazon API Gateway integrations, covering key advantages, performance, security, costs, and use cases to help developers optimize their serverless application architectures.
Amazon API Gateway Exposed: Choosing the Right Endpoint Strategy for Your API
This guide explores Amazon API Gateway's endpoint exposure options, detailing their implementation, advantages, use cases, architectural impacts, limitations, troubleshooting, costs and more.
Tutorial How to deploy a serverless website with Terraform
Terraform is the main open-source tool to create infrastructure as code (IaC) in any cloud provider. In this article, we will review how we can use it to deploy a serverless website on AWS, exploring different options.
Tutorial How to create serverless applications with CDK and SAM
CDK and SAM can be used together to create serverless applications. You will use CDK to define and create your AWS resources, and then you will use SAM to test your serverless resources.
Tutorial How to create serverless applications with AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)
SAM (Serverless Application Model) is an open-source framework that you can use to build serverless applications on AWS and I will show you how it works.
How I Decided on the Technology Behind the Blog
Before creating my blog and starting posting I did a lot of research comparing technologies, creating proofs of concept, and it took me weeks to figure out how to do it until I felt comfortable with the solution. Want to know more?