In two previous posts, we've covered the nature of "serverlessness" & how it's implemented in stateless, raw-compute services. Now it's time to raise the bar ... Speaking about stateful services, let's start with something familiar to nearly everyone - transactional, relational, ACID-compliant SQL-based database. In our case, it will be Aurora Serverless...
The previous post in the series (where we covered the definition of "serverlessness" and how Lambda functions correspond to it) can be found here. A very similar idea of "serverlessness" has been applied in another compute service - AWS Fargate (or, to be more precise: ECS on Fargate). What's the...
Disclaimer: this post wasn't planned at all, but the concept kept bothering me, so I couldn't resist turning it (spontaneously) into a blog post ... Let's consider Web APIs, for a minute. For a reason, as they are still the foundation of the Internet as we know it. The typical way...
Nothing happens without reason. The same applies to the origin of this post, which was triggered by two independent events. First of all, some time ago, I visited a local meet-up dedicated to software architecture. The main topic of the evening was "serverless", but for some reason, in the participants'...
AWS re:Invent 2022 happens this week. I assume you know what kind of event that is, so I'll move straight to the point. No, I'm not going to write about my predictions, but I'll focus on what I'd wish for instead. I hope the difference between those two is...
Disclaimer: ALL the opinions presented in this article are my private ones. They should not be associated with any of my employers: neither current nor past ones. The strategic directions I identify/refer to in this article are based solely on 100% PUBLIC information - I am not leaking any...
