I often notice people wondering if and how it’s possible to run Spring Boot on AWS Lambda Functions. I understand this because I know developers in the Java ecosystem often use the Spring Framework. And since more and more people built Lambda functions using Java, the question will be asked at some point. It’s definitely …
Using Spring Boot On AWS Lambda: Clever or Dumb? Read More »
Serverless sending and receiving e-mails using AWS is not fun in my opinion. AWS offers Simple Email Service (SES) to achieve this. But the UI and also Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support is lacking. You often need to manually change settings which is error prone. When I recently built another landing page for myself, I …
Serverless Sending and Receiving E-Mails, the CDK Way Read More »
Have you ever tried to publish a CDK construct that was using a Lambda function, for example to create a custom resource or provide a REST API endpoint? It’s relatively easy to publish your construct if your Lambda function is just using the AWS SDK. But it gets more complicated as soon as other dependencies …
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In the past years, technology made huge progress and automating your processes is more important than ever. Documenting your REST APIs is not an exception here. It’s even more important in the fast moving serverless world to automate your serverless REST API documentation to always keep it up-to-date. The OpenAPI (Swagger) standard helps you describing …
Automatically Generate a Nice Looking Serverless REST API Documentation Read More »
In every software application, there are usually two main reasons to cache data: a) to improve performance and b) to reduce costs. Caching in AWS Lambda is not different. Instead, the reasons for caching might be even more important in this context. This blog post explains why it could be necessary for you and shows …
Do you recognize this view when looking into your CloudWatch log groups? Each AWS Lambda function has an associated CloudWatch log group. However, there is no cleanup process available as soon as a relationship between a CloudWatch log group and Lambda function expires. In that case it’s necessary to remove these old log groups manually. …
Remove old CloudWatch log groups of Lambda functions Read More »
On the 7th of September, I gave a talk at Atlas Camp 2018 in Barcelona. You can watch it here on YouTube. It was my first time on a bigger stage and about 80-100 people listened to my words – amazing! With this blog post I want to say thanks to all who helped me achieving …
A CloudFormation stack evolves over time and usually costs increase as well. You’ll probably not only have one stack, but instead have at least a production and a development stack. Even one development stack per developer might be common in your organization. This means the total costs increase even more. In order to prevent paying …
Shut down CloudFormation stack resources over night using AWS Lambda Read More »
AWS Lambda is actually made to be used by implementing small functions which can be started quickly. So your code artifact should be as small as possible for a fast startup time. However, in the Java world there are nice frameworks like Jersey and Spring which can help you writing code for an API a …
Today I want to show you three starter projects for AWS Lambda using CloudFormation and SAM – Serverless Application Model. I always like if I have some boilerplate code and can get started quickly without copying code or project structures from an existing (and mature) project. Therefore I thought it’s good to have them in …
Starter Projects For AWS Lambda Using NodeJS And Java Read More »