Tag: serverless

Moto is a library that allows mocking AWS services when using the Python Boto library. It can be used with other languages as stated in the documentation - standalone server mode. I don't have direct experience with that feature, though, as Python is...

Last February, AWS added support for creating canaries for API Gateway to Cloudwatch Synthetics, which I've been using lately to monitor some REST APIS successfully. Let's review some technical concepts first: Canaries: Node scripts that run on schedule to monitor endpoints, following the action...

DynamoDB is the fastest NoSQL database at scale from AWS, operating within the key-value and document-based models. I'm not going to delve into the basics because I'm sure I don't need to explain them to you - as you have arrived here :). Anyways,...

The past 15th of March, I sat down at Google's Professional Cloud Architect Beta, so I'd like to share some of my thoughts now that some time has passed. If you haven't taken any Google's certification before, let me tell you that this test could...

Pretty cool post from Google's Blog to quickly view 21 services in a series of short videos. Some essential videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfwlbt3QZrM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IemOAESlWKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjsNWh1TLKo You can find the full set of videos in the original post on Google's Blog.

It's no secret the huge revolution that Kubernetes has ignited for the Industry since Google introduced it back in 2014, so I'd guess we don't need to go there. The GCP offering for Kubernetes is GKE, which provides a fully managed environment for orchestrating...

Cloud Run is the Serverless Container Platform offering by GCP, launched back in 2019. I'm sure you'd get the idea, deploying apps very quickly - packaged in containers -, in a fully managed environment. After reading this book by Wietse Venema, and going through most...

If you´ve been developing serverless applications for a while, pretty sure you have found yourself facing a few challenges, apart from the old cold start thing - which has been solved to a great extent with the Provisioned Concurrency feature. For instance, let's say...