Serverless, Schmerverless… Why Should I Care?
In this talk, I’ll cover what Serverless means to me, namely the Serverless framework and how to use it to deploy applications to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.
Accounts as a Service: Why we have 50+ AWS accounts, and why you should too
One of the chief benefits of cloud computing is the ability to experiment. This talk is about how we use “transient” to allow developer experimentation while preventing abuse.
Two Buckets and a Lambda: a pattern for file processing
This post is a “deep dive” on the architectural decisions, and operational concerns, and simple mechanics of triggering a Lambda from an S3 upload.
Application Development Approaches in AWS Webinar
Chariot’s Ken Rimple, director of Training/Mentoring Services, will take you through some sample AWS architectures and the pros/cons of complexity, cost, and technical considerations for each one.
Application Development Approaches in AWS (webinar slides)
Chariot’s Ken Rimple, director of Training/Mentoring Services, will take you through some sample AWS architectures and the pros/cons of complexity, cost, and technical considerations for each one.
Serverless or Bust Part 2 – Handling Events and Securing Lambdas
How to send information to Lambdas by passing parameters and path-based variables to functions, and locking down functions from unauthorized access.
Serverless or bust part 1 – setting up a Lambda in Serverless
We’ll take a look at a cloud-based application platform, Serverless, and what it takes to get a simple function hosted on Amazon Web Services (aws), including configuring security with Amazon Cognito, and a front-end client with Angular.
CloudFormation Tips and Tricks
I’ve noticed that many of Chariot’s clients — from 4-person startups to 40,000-person multinationals — use CloudFormation for their infrastructure-as-code. For them and others, here are some tips that I’ve learned while developing CloudFormation templates over the past five years.
Delving into CloudTrail events
CloudTrail provides you with an audit log of every successful API call made in your AWS account. This post focuses on management events in CloudTrail, and techniques for exploring and analyzing those events using a search engine such as Elasticsearch with Kibana.
Using AWS CostExplorer to find forgotten services
In this post I’ll give an introduction to Budgets, and walk through using Cost Explorer to find a forgotten Sagemaker notebook.