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Adding serverless functionality to existing applications

The AWS Serverless Application Repository can provide new functionality to your existing applications, without needing to manage servers.

Aug 19, 2019

Adding serverless functionality to existing applications

Aug 19, 2019

Found in translation — going multilingual with serverless

Your customers speak different languages. Now your application can too.

Aug 7, 2019

Found in translation — going multilingual with serverless

Aug 7, 2019

Forms without servers — handling form submissions with Lambda

Converting from server-side form management is a key step in migrating websites to serverless.

Jul 29, 2019

Forms without servers — handling form submissions with Lambda

Jul 29, 2019

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ITNEXT

Build a voting website that doesn’t crash — part two. Now with Amplify.

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.

Jun 7, 2019

Build a voting website that doesn’t crash — part two. Now with Amplify.

Jun 7, 2019

Published in
ITNEXT

Will it scale? Let’s load test geohashing on DynamoDB

James Beswick and Richard Boyd test how far a simple geohashing solution can scale serverlessly.

Apr 1, 2019

Will it scale? Let’s load test geohashing on DynamoDB

Apr 1, 2019

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The Startup

Caffeinate me! Build a serverless app to find the nearest Starbucks.

Uniting Starbucks and serverless, this project uses VueJS and geospatial queries on DynamoDB to provide a quick coffee fix.

Mar 27, 2019

Caffeinate me! Build a serverless app to find the nearest Starbucks.

Mar 27, 2019

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A Cloud Guru

Location-based search results with DynamoDB and Geohash

Searching for the nearest or farthest location is easy thanks to DynamoDB and a small geocoding NPM package

Mar 24, 2019

Location-based search results with DynamoDB and Geohash

Mar 24, 2019

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ITNEXT

Build a voting website that doesn’t crash under load (in under an hour)

Spiky traffic? Unpredictable load? Sounds like a job for serverless.

Mar 21, 2019

Build a voting website that doesn’t crash under load (in under an hour)

Mar 21, 2019

Published in
ITNEXT

I can serverless, and you can too!

Learn how to use a serverless approach to build a complex mobile app for a zoo.

Mar 19, 2019

I can serverless, and you can too!

Mar 19, 2019

Published in
ITNEXT

Bringing realtime to serverless web applications

AWS IoT makes light work of pushing real-time messages throughout your application.

Mar 16, 2019

Bringing realtime to serverless web applications

Mar 16, 2019

James Beswick

James Beswick

Aspiring fiction writer by night. Opinions here are my own. See my tech posts at http://bit.ly/jbeswick.

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