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Our friends at Stackery have been working for some time on a technical integration between the products, and now it's official! Already using Stackery to manage your code a...

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms allow you to deploy and scale your application at the function level. This paradigm shift offers many advantages but has caused some con...

To understand the various issues you encounter with serverless apps, rewiring your brain is a must. First of all, you don't have access to stack traces anymore, nor do you hav...

What are we building? In this guide, we will learn how to set up a simple Node.js Express API, powered by an AWS Lambda function, and what are the pros and cons for such a se...

There are many tools that can be used to deploy and work with AWS Lambda. The Popular Deployment Tools for Serverless provides a good overview of them. In many cases, a comman...

Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, describes AWS Lambda as the “connective tissue” for your cloud-native application. It’s an apt description, as AWS Lambda functions oft...

AWS Lambda provides a wide range of possibilities for automating DevOps tasks and processes. Prior to AWS Lambda, we relied on a server that executed all required tasks and sc...

What you should know about serverless, the universe and everything. As with any new technology, the serverless ecosystem is evolving rapidly. Cloud providers are releasing ne...

Breaking into a new technology is always hard, especially for a paradigm shift as drastic as serverless. Even as a long time user of AWS Lambda (relative speaking, since Lambd...

Serverless architecture is the new kid on the block, and according to a recent survey by Serverless, Inc., a vast majority of developers will start using it by the end of the ...

AWS has officially released today, at re:Invent 2018, the support for Layers in Lambda functions. Epsagon is proud to partner with AWS as an official partner of AWS Lambda ...

Let’s take a moment to compare and contrast the AWS Lambda supported languages. In this post, we’ll take a look at these languages from some angles: Cold start perfor...

Serverless adoption has been steadily picking up throughout 2017 and 2018 as more and more people have come to rely on serverless technologies for critical production systems....

Serverless deployment is a key consideration when starting to write software using Function-as-a-Service services such as AWS Lambda. In the beginning, the default cloud vendo...

Announced during re:Invent 2016, AWS Step Functions is a service for creating state machines. It is the spiritual descendant of the not-so-simple-to-use Simple Workflow ...

AWS introduced last year the SQS integration with AWS Lambda. In the following post, I'm going to share a quick-and-simple tutorial on how to get started with message dis...

As a developer, I find it very convenient to develop and deploy Lambda functions. My favorite programming language is Python, so both Serverless and Zappa are great. ...