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Paul Swail

Back-end Primer for Front-end Web Developers

A quick tour of the core web application architectural concepts that prospective full-stack developers will come across.

10 min readNov 1, 2018

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Back-end Primer for Front-end Web Developers

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Paul Swail

Concerns that go away in a serverless world

A common claim from serverless advocates is that it can increase a team’s feature velocity and reduce the ops overhead of running an…

4 min readSep 27, 2018

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Concerns that go away in a serverless world

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Paul Swail

How to connect to the AWS Console as multiple IAM users at the same time

If you’ve ever had to manage multiple AWS accounts concurrently, whether it’s for different client projects or different environments of…

3 min readSep 20, 2018

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How to connect to the AWS Console as multiple IAM users at the same time

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Paul Swail

The differing definitions of “serverless”

Like many industry buzzwords before it — “cloud computing”, “DevOps”, “big data” — debates over the definition of the term “serverless”…

4 min readSep 13, 2018

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The differing definitions of “serverless”

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Paul Swail

Should you be concerned about vendor lock-in when writing FaaS functions?

Vendor lock-in is a topic which has been discussed at length since the early days of cloud computing and is particularly prevalent today in…

5 min readSep 6, 2018

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Should you be concerned about vendor lock-in when writing FaaS functions?

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Paul Swail

Scaling Lambdas inside a VPC

So you’re building a Lambda function and you need it to talk to resources inside your VPC, maybe an RDS database or a Redis Elasticache.

7 min readAug 30, 2018

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Scaling Lambdas inside a VPC

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Paul Swail

5 common mistakes deploying Lambda functions

If you’re new to building Functions-as-a-Service applications and to AWS Lambda in particular, there are several snags you will likely hit…

3 min readAug 29, 2018

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How to Deploy a High Availability Web App to AWS ECS

Running your containerised web app locally is easy. Just docker run and you’re done.

7 min readApr 25, 2018

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How to Deploy a High Availability Web App to AWS ECS

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Paul Swail

Books I read in 2017

🎧 The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E Gerber. Great book for learning how to…

7 min readJan 23, 2018

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Books I read in 2017

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Paul Swail

Services and tools for running a small software business

An extensive list of tools and services used in the engineering, marketing, sales and general business ops of a one-person software company…

6 min readJan 12, 2018

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Services and tools for running a small software business

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Paul Swail

Paul Swail

I help organisations design and build web apps on AWS, particularly those of the serverless variety. I also run my own bootstrapped SaaS product business.

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