Recently I've been working with Step Functions in my day-to-day work, as well as in my personal projects, and I decided to write this post as a way of articulating the ins-and-outs of Step Functions I've
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Serverless Cost Containment
Serverless soultions is can be incredibly cheap due to their event-based nature - if your system isn't working, you pay barely anything for it. But if you're not careful, serverless can still result in some nasty surprises when it comes to costs.
AWS Reserved Instances Cheatsheet
Reserved Instances (RIs) are a great way to save some money if you've got consistent AWS EC2 usage, without needing to make changes to your instances!
Cleaning up Lambda Logs with CloudFormation
Is your CloudWatch Logs console full of old log groups? Got 50 pages of Lambda log groups? Don't worry, I have the solution for you! The issue here is not the cost; While there is a cost associated
Serverless AWS Twitter List
Got Twitter? Want serverless? Here are my favourite accounts - in no particular order - to keep up to date with the good serverless news and content out there. AWS Obviously the AWS staff and accounts are a good source
Getting started with AWS SAM CLI and Golang
Get started with golang and the AWS SAM CLI for local Lambda development.
Understand your Lambda Event Retries
Understanding the differences between the various event types and their retries is important, because it will change how you design and code your application. If you're developing a serverless application in Lambda, you will have to deal with
Secure your CloudFront Distributions
UPDATE: AWS announced over the weekend [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/enhanced-domain-protections-for-amazon-cloudfront-requests/] that they're enhancing protections against this kind of scenario. A few weeks ago a security researcher shared [https://disloops.com/cloudfront-hijacking/] it was possible to