Our business rules are dissolving into infrastructure!
In this blog, I want to talk about ‘Serverless Spaghetti’. A term that crept into my mind after reading AWS’s release docs for step functions. This update announced the capability of AWS Step functions to stitch together 200 AWS services. While these capabilities…
Platform teams are commonly created to provide a single place for fixing common problems. An example could be: linking your cloud’s account to the organization’s single-sign-on environment. This solution creates efficiency, you will not spend money on the same task over and over again. In many companies, this is a…
“from batteries included to batteries as service mesh”
Our stack has evolved. In this article I will provide a perspective on how we deal with abstractions, components, and composability when we are building applications. …
Timestream hit general availability last year September. A timeseries database as a serverless offering was something I was really looking forward to. This blog covers my first experiences using this database offering.
Amazon Timestream is a new time series database for IoT, edge, and operational applications that can scale to…
This article offers a way to create a windowed snapshot of your data in DynamoDB. This is a solution to create a historized view of your table state.
AWS offers great Serverless tools to create an event-full real-time platform. A common pattern is to use message busses like Eventbridge, Kinesis…
Managing SES using CDK writing infrastructure proved incomplete. I used CDK custom resources to activate an SES ruleset. Read about the background of my problem or jump right to the solution chapter.
Recently I needed to create a solution involving an SES-based email inbox. SES is a great tool to…
The digitization or automation of a process using packaged software or custom software is very expensive. Even worse, we sometimes don’t get it right, and sometimes even the second time we try it. That’s why our industry has gotten agile ways of improving this process. …
Next time if somebody mentions low-code, please also consider this to be an excellent opportunity to choose a Serverless technology stack!
In the software industry trends come and go. Some trends are more like cycles that repeat themselves. Like the discussion on packaged software versus custom software. Every ten years…
However, it’s awful that something as fundamental to AWS as Cloudwatch has such limited support. You can define an action to write metrics to Cloudwatch using the API though. It’s writing logs that are missing from CDK’s API. …
