Articles tagged with "lambda"

When discussing high performant real-time event streaming, Apache Kafka is a tool that immediately comes to mind. Optimized for ingesting and transforming real-time streaming data in a reliable and scalable manner, a great number of companies today rely on Apache Kafka to power their mission-critical applications and data analytics pipelines. In this blog series, I would like to show you how you can leverage Amazon MSK and Terraform to set up a fully managed, cross-account Apache Kafka streaming pipeline on AWS. In the first part, we already set up the MSK Kafka cluster and producers. The second part will show you how you can set up distributed Kafka clients in different AWS accounts and communicate with the MSK cluster via AWS VPC Endpoints.

AWS Security Hub allows you to get and manage an aggregated view of security findings in your AWS Accounts. Different companies require to have all findings tracked within their issue-tracking system, like Jira. Manual interaction is out, so let’s automate its content creation.

Proper version control is an essential part of a fast-paced, agile development approach and the foundation of CI/CD. Even though databases are an important aspect of nearly every application, database migrations, and schema evolutions are often not versioned and not integrated into the automation process. In this blog post, I would like to show you how you can leverage Flyway on AWS to version control your schema changes and automate your database migrations.

Have you ever heard about CloudFront Functions as an alternative to Lambda@Edge when doing redirects within CloudFront? In this post I will give you an example of the different steps for an implementation of both variants with the same result.

When implementing REST APIs in AWS there is one service that always comes to mind - Amazon API Gateway. Even though feature-rich, properly documenting your API may become a time-consuming task relatively quickly. In this post, I would like to show you how you can use Swagger UI in combination with a serverless deployment to automatically generate interactive and up-to-date documentation for your APIs.

In hybrid architectures, serverless functions work together with container solutions. Lambda logs have to be translated when you don`t choose CloudWatch Logs. The old way of doing this is through subscription filters using additional Lambda functions for log transformation. With the Lambda Telemetry API there is a more elegant, performant and cost-effective way. I am using Grafana Loki as a working example and show you how to build a working Lambda-Loki Telemetry APi extension.

In modern architectures, Lambda functions co-exist with containers. Cloud Native Observability is achieved with open telemetry. I show you how to send open telemetry traces from Lambda to a Jaeger tracing server. Let’s see how this compares to the X-Ray tracing service.

We know how to follow traces with the X-Ray SDK. Now there is AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry claiming to do this better. Let’s build CDK examples for Lambda with TypeScript/Python/Go and find out who is the better spy in this game.