I often notice people wondering if and how it’s possible to run Spring Boot on AWS Lambda Functions. I understand this because I know developers in the Java ecosystem often use the Spring Framework. And since more and more people built Lambda functions using Java, the question will be asked at some point. It’s definitely […]
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Serverless sending and receiving e-mails using AWS is not fun in my opinion. AWS offers Simple Email Service (SES) to achieve this. But the UI and also Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support is lacking. You often need to manually change settings which is error prone. When I recently built another landing page for myself, I
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In the past years, technology made huge progress and automating your processes is more important than ever. Documenting your REST APIs is not an exception here. It’s even more important in the fast moving serverless world to automate your serverless REST API documentation to always keep it up-to-date. The OpenAPI (Swagger) standard helps you describing
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Running cloud services on your local machine is often a problem because there is no local version available. Thankfully DynamoDB provides a local version of their database. This makes unit testing cloud services a lot easier if you’re relying on DynamoDB. Unfortunately, setting up DynamoDB Local and combining it with Testcontainers and Bitbucket Pipelines in
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After working for more than three years with AWS Lambda and other serverless services, I’ve came across various best practices to improve your way of going serverless. Let me share with you how you can successfully develop your software using serverless functions from a technical perspective.
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From monoliths to microservices and containers to serverless functions: the software engineering world is changing fast. Popular technologies from today will be outdated tomorrow and it isn’t easy to follow them all. The same is true for taking the first step when going serverless. Hence I’ll present you with my best practices for going serverless
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Last week I have attended JavaLand 2019 which was a great experience for me. Lots of different people, interesting talks and great speakers! It was my first time there and I have to admit: not only the usual conference content was great, but also the location was really unique – it’s located in Phantasia Land,
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A few years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched it’s new service AWS Lambda. Since its start the service is generating more and more interest for the whole world of serverless computing. I’ve also started using it this year and today I want to share 5 things with you what I think is important when developing
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Recently I was facing a difficult situation: me and my team we’re working on a feature (using Feature Branch Model) and I wanted to rebase my code to the changes on another branch. Nothing special so far. But the problem was that there were several conflicts because we’ve changed code at similar lines. After finishing the rebase and making a
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