Alexander Magnus Partsch

Published in TrustBob Blog

·Mar 14, 2019

My Database: Is it 🤷‍♂️serverless🤷‍♂️? An opinionated Checklist

When building a 🤷‍♂️serverless🤷‍♂️ application, not only the code execution has to be ephemeral — it likely requires one or more data stores, which are usually on continuously running servers. It takes advanced knowledge of systems and database administration to properly scale, replicate and/or shard RDBMS servers. …

AWS

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Published in TrustBob Blog

·Dec 3, 2018

Serverless Quick Tip #2: Asynchronous Micro Services with Serverless and AWS Step Functions

All micro services I developed on a FaaS platform like AWS Lambda had one aspect in common: The time limit of a common http request (30 seconds when using AWS API Gateway) was exceeded easily. Therefore I had a design similar to this diagram: Trigger: A short-lived AWS lambda function…

AWS Lambda

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Serverless Quick Tip #2: Asynchronous Micro Services with Serverless and AWS Step Functions

Published in TrustBob Blog

·Nov 26, 2018

Serverless Quick Tip #1: Don’t do Multipart Requests on AWS Lambda

Although it is possible to write AWS Lambda functions handling multipart requests (Java handlers even accept InputStreams, reducing memory usage), eventually you are still going to run into timeout issues (since API Gateway limits your functions to a 30 second execution time) and memory shortage (either you are in a…

Serverless

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