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Hello everyone, Recently I had the opportunity to work on a music application, where I have developed a REST API to download the audio file given a video ID of the source youtube video. In this blog, I will be covering my experience while building the project like common pitfalls, design decisions I had to undergo w...

Inspired by Andrew Brown who outlined a course that he shared on Twitter and by an ongoing reflection on my own experiences with cloud and serverless adoption at the company I work for, I decided to share a little about my perceptions on the current shift in landscape and what it means to be a developer in this cont...

Last week I was giving an introductory class to my company's technical support team on a new product we've been building. The new product is completely different than anything else we've built before: tech stack, programming languages, methods of deployment, you name it - it's different. As I was walking through the...

Unzip Large Files in AWS S3 using Lambda and Node.js — Unzipper is a helpful package here as its streaming approach promises a low memory footprint even when decompressing large files.

How to Keep Your CloudWatch Bill Under Control When Running AWS Lambda at Scale — If your Lambda functions are flooding CloudWatch with log messages, you’ll start to see the costs rack up. Here’s a practical look at a way to mitigate this.

How I Created a Simple Serverless Activity Logger — The motivation for this, however, was ‘to record nuisance activities of my neighbor’ including ‘footsteps’ and ‘punching the wall’ 😳 We wish Pubudu future neighborly bliss and maybe there are nicer things you would like to track in a similar way(!)

Building a Serverless API with Deno and Begin — Deno is particularly well suited to serverless use cases, and while there are layers to use it directly on AWS Lambda, this post looks at Begin which provides powerful tooling and abstractions to make the process smoother.

Lambda Containers with Rails; A Perfect Match? — Ruby has long been a bit of an 'also ran' in the serverless space (it took years for Lambda to support it), yet with its focus on rapid, friendly development, it's a good fit. Ken Collins is perhaps the leader in moving entire Rails apps onto AWS Lambda (using Lamby) and he's spoken about his work...

Finding Winning Stocks with Serverless Web Scrapers — Before you copy Miguel, nothing is guaranteed 😁 I do love to see people using serverless technologies (Lambda and DynamoDB in this case) for such simple, scrappy ends. I’ve done some similar work in monitoring Web pages for changes, as well.

How to Create a AWS Lambda Layer of Your Ruby Gem Dependencies — Throwing Ruby code into the cloud with AWS Lambda is easy, but getting the heavier dependencies (e.g. nokogiri, or the http gem) working isn’t quite as easy. I worked out how to do it sans framework.

Serverless Transformation on a Brazilian News Media Outlet — The whys, hows, good, bad and the ugly of serverless transformation at Nexo Jornal.

Lambda Extensions Are Changing What It Means to Be Serverless — “Serverless in 2021 will look nothing like serverless in 2020.”

A Quick Review of the New Azure Functions "Retry Policy" — We mentioned Azure Functions’ retry policies last week, but here’s one user’s actual experience of them.

Building Serverless Front-End Applications Using Google Cloud Platform — An entry level introduction to serverless from the Google Cloud perspective covering Google Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler, and more.

Going from 0 to 11 with REST APIs on Azure Functions — “Why developing APIs with Azure Functions is a good great the best thing”

'Basic Authentication' with Lambda@Edge — And when it says ‘basic authentication’ it literally means HTTP-level basic authentication – the now rather old-school way of securing access to systems through a native browser password modal and Authorization header. But does it work? Yes.

Join Me at Microsoft Create:Serverless: Conversations with Community and Industry Experts — Me and a whole amazing raft of great serverless speakers and community members are getting together on Sep 30 for a half-day virtual event. If you want to join in, you can learn more and register here (it’s free).