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Author: James Beswick
James Beswick leads the Serverless Developer Advocacy team at AWS. He works with AWS's developer customers to understand how serverless technologies can drastically change the way they think about building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Visit https://serverlessland.com for more serverless content.
Processing satellite imagery with serverless architecture
This post shows how to deploy an imagery processing pipeline in the AWS Cloud. It is decoupled to allow both pre and post-processing extensions to be integrated into the pipeline more easily. Visit the code repository for further information.
Operating Lambda: Logging and custom metrics
Many existing monitoring and observability concepts also apply to Lambda-based applications. This post introduces key terms, application performance monitoring, with broad metrics can be useful for monitoring workloads.
ICYMI: Serverless Q1 2021
All the feature launches, blogs, videos, tech talks and more happenings from the AWS Serverless service teams in Q1 2021.
Federating CloudEndure access with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
In this post, you learn how to grant Azure Active Directory users Single Sign-On access to the CloudEndure console. You can now create multiple enterprise applications for different CloudEndure accounts. You can use the guide in this post to assign CloudEndure projects or accounts to users.
Operating Lambda: Using CloudWatch Logs Insights
CloudWatch Logs Insights allows you to search and analyze log data to find the causes of issues and help validate fixes when they are deployed. This post shows how to enable the feature for a Lambda function and search across logs. It explains why structured logging can be helpful for parsing data in analysis.
Integrating AWS Step Functions callbacks and external systems
This article presents an architecture that enables customers to use Step Functions workflow callbacks without exposing the implementation and AWS service details to external systems.
Announcing end of support for Python 2.7 in AWS Lambda
On July 15, 2021, AWS Lambda will deprecate Python 2.7 as a supported runtime, formally ending our Python 2.7 support.
Operating Lambda: Debugging configurations – Part 3
This post explains common integration errors in Lambda-based applications. These include running an unintended version or alias of a function, triggering infinite loops unintentionally, and issues with downstream availability. In each case, I explain steps you can take to remediate the issue.
Building an image searching solution with the AWS CDK
This post discusses a fully serverless architecture for searching images based on their contents. It shows how this architecture is decoupled and stateless by using S3 events, SQS messages, an EventBridge bus, and Amazon Aurora Serverless.
Operating Lambda: Debugging configurations – Part 2
This is the second post in a series on debugging Lambda-based applications. This post shows how to identify and resolve memory and CPU-bound functions, and how to understand and use timeouts effectively in production applications.