Tag: serverless
TDD AWS – the Moto Library
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...
Synthetic Canaries for API Gateway – I
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...
Fast DynamoDB Pagination using Python
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,...
Impressions about the Google Professional Cloud Architect Beta – and other ramblings
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...
21 Google Cloud tools in 2 minutes or less
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.
GCP – Introducing GKE Autopilot
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...
Building Serverless Applications with Google Cloud Run
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...
Lambda, EFS, and the Serverless Framework
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...