At some point in your career, you will find that manually configuring infrastructure is both a risky endeavor and a time-consuming one. The aim for anyone facing this problem is automation — that is, being able to consistently reproduce infrastructure in different environments. Terraform is a tool that can alleviate…

Amazon SQS is a message-queuing system that allows you to write distributed applications by exposing a message pipeline that can be processed in the background by workers. If you are in the need of a tool to facilitate distributed applications, event-driven architecture or event…

If you haven’t gotten your feet wet with serverless and are itching to see what the fuss it all about then there are many small steps you can take to begin using a variety of services. Below are a list of ways to add serverless components to your existing applications…

Having been in the tech industry for quite some time I have worked with many different types of developers in teams both large and small. Throughout the years I have observed firsthand what makes fellow developers stand out from the pack and become people that you can look up to…

Moving some or all of your infrastructure to a serverless stack has many benefits. A few of them include: No server management Scalability built in Response times/speed Finite segmentation of code/responsibility While solving many problems compared to traditional server-based architectures the serverless world is not void of trade-offs. The following…

Most people working in technology are familiar with the tried-and-true server setup that powers much of the internet wherein a cluster of servers are dedicated to running an application or a series of applications. When you navigate to a website, for example, your request will route to the server cluster…