Creating a custom Lambda authorizer using Open Policy Agent

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCreating a custom Lambda authorizer using Open Policy Agent Organizations have complex infrastructure and need common tooling to make decisions about the system as a whole. In such scenarios, policy-based decision making could be implemented using Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine, which decouples policy decision-making from policy…

Operating Lambda: Performance optimization – Part 2

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOperating Lambda: Performance optimization – Part 2 In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This three-part series discusses performance optimization for Lambda-based applications. Part 1 describes the Lambda execution environment lifecycle, and explains defining, measuring, and improving cold starts. This…