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....
Get started with golang and the AWS SAM CLI for local Lambda development....
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 retries. They are a necessary evil of a distributed system, which all serverless applications are. Cost Lambda...
Last week I presented to the Sydney AWS Lambda User Group [https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-AWS-Lambda-User-Group/events/245247306/] about serverless operations aka. LessOps. Here are...
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 do in your Serverless [https://serverless.com/] service. In my own case I was wanting...
I've just finished my first Serverless screencast. Check it out and let me know what you think: It's my first screencast, so there's lots of things that I'd like to fix in it. Even so, it was a great learning experience, and I hope to do more soon. If you've got any suggestions or requests...