Paul SwailBack-end Primer for Front-end Web DevelopersA quick tour of the core web application architectural concepts that prospective full-stack developers will come across.Nov 1, 20181Nov 1, 20181
Paul SwailConcerns that go away in a serverless worldA common claim from serverless advocates is that it can increase a team’s feature velocity and reduce the ops overhead of running an…Sep 27, 2018Sep 27, 2018
Paul SwailHow to connect to the AWS Console as multiple IAM users at the same timeIf you’ve ever had to manage multiple AWS accounts concurrently, whether it’s for different client projects or different environments of…Sep 20, 2018Sep 20, 2018
Paul SwailThe differing definitions of “serverless”Like many industry buzzwords before it — “cloud computing”, “DevOps”, “big data” — debates over the definition of the term “serverless”…Sep 13, 2018Sep 13, 2018
Paul SwailShould 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…Sep 6, 2018Sep 6, 2018
Paul SwailScaling Lambdas inside a VPCSo 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.Aug 30, 2018Aug 30, 2018
Paul Swail5 common mistakes deploying Lambda functionsIf you’re new to building Functions-as-a-Service applications and to AWS Lambda in particular, there are several snags you will likely hit…Aug 29, 2018Aug 29, 2018
Paul SwailHow to Deploy a High Availability Web App to AWS ECSRunning your containerised web app locally is easy. Just docker run and you’re done.Apr 25, 2018Apr 25, 2018
Paul SwailBooks 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…Jan 23, 2018Jan 23, 2018
Paul SwailServices and tools for running a small software businessAn extensive list of tools and services used in the engineering, marketing, sales and general business ops of a one-person software company…Jan 12, 2018Jan 12, 2018