I hang out a lot in the Serverless forum [http://forum.serverless.com/] and Gitter [https://gitter.im/serverless/serverless] - I just like talking about this new-fangled FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) thing. A common misconception that keeps coming up is that it's not an appropriate choice for things that use a database connection because you have...
I've been really enjoying playing with the Serverless framework [https://serverless.com/] recently. The FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) model really appeals to me, and I think it's going to be A Big Deal in the future. The Serverless framework makes interacting with AWS Lambda, API GateWay, and CloudFormation really really easy. Unfortunately, because your code runs on...
I've been playing a lot with the Serverless framework [https://serverless.com/] since they moved from v0.x to v1 (which is currently in beta). I really like the direction they've taken it, and have been using it for my own projects. One of the first things I wanted to do was hook my functions...
When I first used CloudWatch Events [https://blog.rowanudell.com/scheduling-lambda-functions-with-the-aws-cli/] I knew just enough to get the job done. As I've played with it...
Just before the AWS Summit [https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/agenda/] last month I attended the Inaugural Sydney Serverless Meetup [www.meetup.com/Sydney-Serverless-Meetup-Group/events/229430954/]. I gave a lightning talk introducing Apex [http://apex.run/] for managing Lambda functions. I must admit I thought it was going to be a meetup about the...
> Paying for idle is so 2015 I had some Lambda Functions that scraped data from the Internet, and stored them in a database. Locking-down the RDS Security Group to only Lambda Functions turned out to be more complicated than I thought. The Problem Out of the box, you can't restrict a Security Group to only...