Your customers speak different languages. Now your application can too. Many of our users do not speak English as a first language, and it’s one of the most commonly overlooked aspects of user experience. …

Converting from server-side form management is a key step in migrating websites to serverless. In a traditional website, one of the most common dynamic functions performed by the web server is handling form submissions. Typically, when a visitor completes a form, the submit action sends a POST request to the…

In the first article, we built a serverless voting website in under an hour. Now let’s do it again, this time using AWS Amplify. I set myself the challenge of building a highly scalable, serverless voting website in under an hour, and published the results in this article. While it…

Searching for the nearest or farthest location is easy thanks to DynamoDB and a small geocoding NPM package — Many datasets now include geospatial information — especially if you are working with mobile apps or Google Maps. Geospatial data is a fancy way of describing items containing a latitude and longitude, but handling queries based on the nearest, furthest or within a certain distance has some complexity.

Spiky traffic? Unpredictable load? Sounds like a job for serverless. Petition websites can experience the extremes of demand — when a popular motion is set before the public, hundreds of thousands of people can appear from nowhere. …