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You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong
You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong
The Register published an article right before Christmas 2018. It had a somewhat provocative title, and somehow it ended up in my inbox…
Yan Cui
Jan 10, 2019
All my posts on Serverless
All my posts on Serverless
Tips for writing Lambda functions
Yan Cui
Oct 8, 2017
We can do better than percentile latencies
We can do better than percentile latencies
Years ago, I used average latency on every dashboard and every alarm. That is, until I woke up to the problems of average latencies…
Yan Cui
Oct 3, 2018
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What’s the best way to do fan-out/fan-in serverlessly in 2024?
What’s the best way to do fan-out/fan-in serverlessly in 2024?
Back in 2018, I shared [1] several ways to implement fan-out/fan-in with Lambda. A lot has changed since, so let’s explore the solution…
Yan Cui
Aug 4
I’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrong
I’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrong
There is often the sense that going serverless means going microservices and event-driven architectures, too.
Yan Cui
Jul 2
How to handle execution timeouts in AWS Step Functions
How to handle execution timeouts in AWS Step Functions
Step Functions lets you set a timeout on Task states and the whole execution.
Yan Cui
Apr 20
How to apply the TDD mindset to serverless
How to apply the TDD mindset to serverless
Testing is an integral part of software development. Your tests are a living documentation of your system. They inform others how to use…
Yan Cui
Apr 9
Here are four ways you can implement WebSockets using serverless
Here are four ways you can implement WebSockets using serverless
The myth that “you can’t do WebSockets with serverless” still persists today, even though we have some very good ways to implement…
Yan Cui
Apr 2
DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies. But is that a good idea?
DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies. But is that a good i...
DynamoDB announced support for resource-based policies [1] a few days ago. It makes cross-account access to DynamoDB tables easier. You no…
Yan Cui
Mar 23
When to use Step Functions vs. doing it all in a Lambda function
When to use Step Functions vs. doing it all in a Lambda function
I’m a big fan of AWS Step Functions. I use it to orchestrate all sorts of workflows, from payment processing to map-reduce jobs.
Yan Cui
Mar 10
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