AWS CloudFormation is an amazing infrastructure management tool that allows you to define requests for resources in a domain-specific templating language. CloudFormation has built-in binary logic within the template in …

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One of the things our software engineers like about building applications in the cloud is that there’s always something new to learn. Unfortunately, there’s always something new to learn, and …

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The release of AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway have made serverless microservice architecture a viable option for building cost-effective web apps. Considering the price (1 million AWS Lambda executions …

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AWS Lambda is among Amazon’s cutting edge services designed to allow you to build microservices using serverless architecture. It’s an exciting technology (I’ll get to why in a second), but …

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