Serverless
19 items across 4 sections
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Containers and Serverless with FIS (ECS Fargate and Lambda)
Leave EC2 behind. Stop a whole Fargate task set and force AWS Lambda invocations to error and to stall, using AWS FIS. Real Terraform, real numbers, and the exact setup gotchas for the Lambda fault-injection extension.
Serverless Doesn't Mean Secure: The State of AWS Lambda Security in 2026
Part 1 of 4 in the Lambda Security Series. Why "managed" doesn't mean secure: overprivileged execution roles, secrets in environment variables, public function URLs, deprecated runtimes, and event-data injection.
Inside lambda-security-scanner: 19 Checks Across Every Function in Your Account
Part 2 of 4 in the Lambda Security Series. A deep look at lambda-security-scanner: 19 read-only checks across configuration, access control, network, logging, and supply chain, scored 0 to 100 and mapped to ten compliance frameworks.
From Findings to Fixed: Lambda Compliance Mapping and Remediation
Part 3 of 4 in the Lambda Security Series. Map every Lambda security finding to ten compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR), then fix each of the 19 checks with a precise AWS CLI command.
The Code Is Still Yours: Application-Layer Security for AWS Lambda
Part 4 of 4 in the Lambda Security Series. The half no posture scanner reaches: event-data injection, stealable execution-role credentials, insecure deserialization, dependency and code scanning, runtime secrets, and detection.
Run Real AWS Lambda on Your Laptop
Deploy and run Python and Node.js functions locally with LocalEmu, executed inside the official AWS Lambda runtime images. No AWS account, no credentials, no cost.
Stop Reinventing Authentication: How I Built a Production-Ready Auth API That Scales to 50K Users for Free
How I built CognitoApi, an open-source serverless authentication API on AWS Cognito that handles 50,000 users for free with MFA, token management, and complete user lifecycle support.
Building a Production-Ready Serverless File Sharing Platform on AWS
How I built a secure, scalable file sharing solution using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito with zero infrastructure to manage and 91% cost reduction.
Mastering AWS SAM for Python Lambda: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide
A complete beginner-to-builder guide for AWS SAM with Python. Learn to create, test locally, deploy, debug, and manage serverless APIs step by step.
I Built a Free AWS IAM Activity Tracker Because CloudTrail Alone Isn't Enough
A serverless IAM activity monitoring tool that tracks IAM, STS, and console signin events across all AWS regions with real-time security alerts and long-term analytics.
Episode 1: Hunting Deprecated Lambda Runtimes - Before They Become Problems
Learn how to systematically identify Lambda functions running on deprecated runtimes across all AWS regions with CLI and Lambda automation tools.
AWS Lambda Deep Dive: Serverless Computing from First Function to Production
Complete guide to AWS Lambda covering the execution model, deployment options, triggers, cold starts, concurrency, pricing, and production architecture patterns.
Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: NoSQL at Any Scale
Complete guide to Amazon DynamoDB covering data modeling, primary keys, secondary indexes, capacity modes, transactions, streams, global tables, DAX caching, and production best practices.
Amazon API Gateway Deep Dive: Build and Manage APIs at Any Scale
Complete guide to Amazon API Gateway covering REST API vs HTTP API, Lambda integration, authorization, custom domains, throttling, caching, WebSocket APIs, and production best practices.
Amazon SQS and SNS Deep Dive: Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture on AWS
Complete guide to Amazon SQS and SNS covering standard and FIFO queues, dead-letter queues, SNS fan-out, message filtering, Lambda integration, encryption, pricing, and event-driven architecture patterns.
AWS Architecture Patterns: Proven Blueprints for Scalable Cloud Applications
Six production-proven AWS architecture patterns: three-tier web apps, serverless APIs, event-driven processing, static websites, data lakes, and multi-region disaster recovery with diagrams and implementation guides.
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