Serverless statistics solution with Lambda@Edge

2024-03-19

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AWS offers several great serverless services for data engineering and analytics. In this post I describe my serverless analytics setup for click stream analytics of a static webpage, using Amazon Glue, Athena, Managed Grafana for analytics. Data ingestion and storage with Lamba@Edge, StepFunctions and S3.

My Serverless Handbook - My serverless journey on AWS

2024-02-28

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Introducing My Serverless Handbook. This will be the home to my serverless experience and learnings on AWS. It all started 2015 with the creation of my first Lambda function, now several years later, serverless solutions are still my passion. This is my story, this is my journey, this is my experience!

AWS StepFunctions HTTP Endpoint demystified

2024-02-14

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Calling an API from AWS StepFunctions has for a long time required us to write a Lambda function to handle that. With the release of HTTP EndPoint there is no need for that anymore. In this post I'll go over the functionality and show how to use it.

Serverless redirect with CloudFront Functions

2024-01-31

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How do we efficiently redirect users from one site to an other? In this post we'll create a solution using serverless technologies to handle this redirect in an efficient way. We'll use AWS, CloudFront, and the new Function KeyValueStore.

Amazon Graviton Three Ways

2024-01-16

serverless, graviton, cost savings


The Frugal Architect. Many workloads can utilize the effective Graviton (ARM) based CPU, Switching to Graviton is often an easy way to save on cost. Graviton delivers the best cost vs performance. This blog post will show the migration process for three different workloads.

Run a java service serverless with ECS and Fargate

2024-01-05

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How to run a Java based service on Amazon ECS using Fargate and Fargate Spot. Cover the foundation and the infrastructure and steps needed to run this workload.

Serverless and event-driven translation bot

2023-12-05

serverless, ai, event-driven


Blog post how I created a serverless and event-driven translation service using AI services from AWS, like Amazon Translate and Amazon Polly. Step by step guide how to create this solution and integrate it with Slack for translations using a slash command.

Protecting a Static Website with JWT and Lambda@Edge

2023-10-04

serverless, security


Post about how to use Amazon Cognito together with Lambda@Edge to add protection and authorization to static content hosted with Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

Event-Routers and Brokers in AWS. Navigating the Event-Driven Landscape

2023-08-28

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Choosing the needed event-broker, based on your requirements, is important. This post try and share some light on the use of SQS, SNS, EventBridge in an event-driven architecture.

Building a serverless file manager

2023-08-01

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Building a serverless and event-driven file manager, featured in my Event-driven design thinking blog. Will be using AWS services like S3, StepFunctions, EventBridge.

Serverless and event-driven design thinking

2023-07-13

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How do I create and design a event-driven system? What steps do I take and how do I think. In this post I will explain my event-driven design thinking.

Running VS Code server on AWS

2023-06-29

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How I setup to run VS Code server on AWS to be able to access code from anywhere, including vscode.dev