We can do better than percentile latencies

Years ago, I used aver­age laten­cy on every dash­board and every alarm. That is…

All you need to know about caching for serverless applications

Testing strategies for Step Functions

AWS Step Functions is a powerful orchestration service that lets you model even the most…

Choreography vs Orchestration in the land of serverless

Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls really so bad?

If you utter the words “I call a Lambda function from another Lambda function” you might receive a bunch of raised eyebrows. It’s generally frowned up for some good reasons, but as with most things, there are nuances to this discussion.

CloudFormation protip: use !Sub instead of !Join