How to measure and improve your serverless application’s health?

By Dustin Ward

This article will cover how the health of your serverless application can be measured and improved. Technology and its implementation methodology evolve with time very rapidly. Cost efficiency and productivity are the key drivers of technological evolution these days. With the advent of the cloud, infrastructure costs have been brought down significantly. Serverless technology adds…

Top 3 tools for monitoring Python in AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Comparison of top observability and debugging tools to help you monitor Python in AWS Lambda. Serverless architectures, comprised of lambda functions, are an extension of the principles of the service-oriented architectures, which popularized the approach where services communicate using messages or events. If implemented correctly, serverless architectures can reduce code complexity and easier manage the application.…

Serverless and blockchain: check NFT supply with AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Non-Fungible Tokens, or short NFTs, are all the rage right now. Everyone and their pets are starting an NFT project. Some people got rich from using NFTs; others did not. Some say it’s the savior that will rip the power away from big corporations and give it back to the creators; others say it’s just…

Get started and keep using AWS for free

By Dustin Ward

Getting started with AWS and adding your credit card to your own account feels scary, but there are ways to get free credits so you can sleep better in the beginning. In this article, we’ll cover some tricks and tips to get started and keep using AWS for free. Stepping into some new terrain is…

Python error handling in AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Python, used in around 53% of all Lambda functions, is the most popular language for doing Serverless. In this article, you’ll get an overview of the need-to-knows for error handling Python in AWS Lambda. Failure types There are a lot of different things that can go wrong in your Lambda so let’s break each of…