The AWS blog gave me a very pleasant surprise the other day: AWS SAM Local [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-sam-local-beta-build-and-test-serverless-applications-locally/] is in public beta. It's a golang CLI project that's distributed via NPM [https:
Real World Serverless Application Examples
UPDATED: Added examples from submissions. I love seeing real-world serverless applications. This post is a collection of the best examples, break-downs, and deep-dive articles and videos I've come across recently: * MyCrypto.tools [https://medium.com/@tunatore/how-mycrypto-tools-uses-aws-lambda-serverless-architecture-b5603df10443] is
Serverless Weekly News
I really enjoy my [http://tim.blog/welcome-to-5-bullet-friday/] weekly [http://www.hackernewsletter.com/] newsletters [http://javascriptweekly.com/] and I didn't get to go to ServerlessConf in Austin [https://austin.serverlessconf.io/] last week, so instead I started the
What AWS Certification Should You Get?
I see a lot of questions being asked around the sticks about which AWS certification to get. It seems like even those who work with AWS regularly aren't sure about the various different certifications and which one they
Redirects in Serverless
Now that the Lambda Proxy Integration [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/integrating-api-with-aws-services-lambda.html] is a thing for API GW [https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/], performing redirects is a much simpler - and more sane - thing to
I'm Writing a Book about AWS!
A few months ago I was approached to write a book about AWS for Packt Publishing [https://www.packtpub.com]. I'm pleased to announce that the AWS Administration Cookbook [https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/aws-administration-cookbook] is mostly written,
CloudFormation Stack Resources Summary
We were having a discussion over on the Serverless Forum [http://forum.serverless.com/t/hitting-cloudformation-max-resources/1098/3] about CloudFormation resources, and I came up with this AWS CLI command that I could see myself using later, so I'
Write Clean JavaScript
Over the weekend I discovered a cool repo on GitHub: ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript [https://github.com/ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript]. It's a great summary of Uncle Bob's timeless programming classic Clean Code [https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882]