deno-mixed-runtimes VS aws-lambda-java-libs

This all is may not be the optimal option for some organisations. The BBC has gone down this route and for more inspiration, McDonald pointed to resources Begin to explore the option of FWA suitability.

[00:00:00] I'm Simon MacDonald the head of developer experience at Begin. And this is my super out of date website.

However, that is not the end of the story. Since then, many services have improved on AWS Lambda's model in ways like ease of use and performance. The first notable FaaS provider was Vercel (ZEIT Now at the time), which was released in April of 2016 and was a lot simpler to use than Lambda. Another selling point was that it integrated well with Next.js, a React framework made by Vercel. Other, newer services also try to be a lot easier, like Begin, although Vercel is still the most popular in that group.

TLDR: tutorial for setting up webhook based serverless AWS apps with Begin. all without managing AWS projects, IAM roles, or connecting EventBridge to a series of Lambdas.

Instead, we'll make it even easier and deploy it to Begin.com. First, push the Arc project to a new GitHub repository. Then head to Begin.com (and make an account if needed) to create a new app.

Begin.com has a generous free tier, so users do not have to worry about costs. But for those on the paid tier, we will soon make this feature available to all users of Begin. We hope that AWS will build this into the platform in a more usable way. Until then, we hope to relieve some of the fear of unexpected bills. If you want to build scalable web apps with Begin sign up for a free account today.

In this post, we will progressively enhance our personal website template to add dark mode functionality. If you don't already have a website deployed via Begin follow our personal website tutorial to deploy the template in 5 minutes, then come back here and get ready to enhance.

To create a Begin account, simply click the Login button on the Begin home page, authorize it with GitHub, and pick a username. That's it!

The final step is to deploy this application on Begin. Begin is the easiest way to deploy your Architect projects to live AWS infrastructure. To do this, create a free Begin account by going to https://begin.com and using your GitHub account to log in. Create a new app and associate it with this repo. Begin will then create hooks to your repo and deploy the app to a staging environment on every git push.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a serverless function-as-a-service (FaaS) platform that lets you deploy, run, and scale code in the cloud as self-contained functions without having to manually configure any infrastructure. Lambda runs your functions on demand in response to specific events, such as an HTTP request from the internet or activity in another AWS service.

FaaS is specifically focused on building and running applications as a set of independent functions or microservices. Major cloud providers like AWS (Lambda), Microsoft Azure (Functions), and Google Cloud (Cloud Functions) offer FaaS platforms that allow developers to write and deploy individual functions without managing the underlying infrastructure.

So AWS Lambda is basically a serverless computing service that is offered by AWS. It enables developers to run the code in response to various events. It protects the developers from the pain of managing the servers. Using a serverless execution model helps the developers to handle provision, manage and scale the servers automatically. Through this approach the developers can fully focus on writing the code instead of dealing with other aspects.

The first product that popularized the term “serverless” was AWS Lambda, which is both the prototypical and archetypical function as a service provider. It also has a great name, which pings back to its envisioned place in the cloud of the future. In computer programming, a lambda, often referred to as a lambda function or lambda expression, is a concise way to represent an anonymous function, which is a function without a name. The concept originates from lambda calculus in mathematical logic and has been adopted by many programming languages, each with its own syntax and characteristics.

You can build a custom config rules in 2 ways, using AWS Lambda and CloudFormation Guard. Lambda gives you a lot of flexibility, but it also brings complexity of maintaining. CloudFormation Guard is a bit more lightweight in that regard. Yes, you still need to maintain the logic to determine when your resource is compliant or not. But you need to do this in both cases, thus my go to preference is CloudFormation Guard.

AWS Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

This blog details how you can use some key serverless components from AWS like Amazon Eventbridge, AWS Lambda, and Simple Notification Service to setup a system that will monitor your site (which can be running anywhere) and send emails, text messages, slack messages, and more when the reachability status of your site changes.

I use the OpenWeather API to receive the current temperature data by providing the latitude and longitude coordinates as query strings in the request. A Lambda function invokes the weather API and sends the current temperature value as a custom metric to CloudWatch. I then graph the temperature values on a dashboard and activate an alarm when the temperature sinks below zero degrees Celsius.

After two years, I moved to a Web3 startup where I was given a lead software engineer role. This new role gave me more hands-on experience with AWS, where I've learned to implement serverless technologies like Lambda and DynamoDB.