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Using Spring Boot On AWS Lambda: Clever or Dumb?

Spring Boot on AWS Lambda

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 …

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Serverless Sending and Receiving E-Mails, the CDK Way

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 …

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5 Ways To Bundle a Lambda Function Within an AWS CDK Construct

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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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Automatically Generate a Nice Looking Serverless REST API Documentation

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 …

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Going Serverless – Why and How (2)

After working for more than three years with AWS Lambda and other serverless services, I’ve came across various best practices to improve your way of going serverless. Let me share with you how you can successfully develop your software using serverless functions from a technical perspective.

Going Serverless – Why and How (1)

From monoliths to microservices and containers to serverless functions: the software engineering world is changing fast. Popular technologies from today will be outdated tomorrow and it isn’t easy to follow them all. The same is true for taking the first step when going serverless. Hence I’ll present you with my best practices for going serverless …

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