CDK Speedster - fast Lambda deployment

CDK is great for serverless architectures. But the deploy times even for small lambda functions is to slow. Here is a little trick which can speed up things a lot. A small caveat: It is cheating.

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Lambda Container Deployment with CDK: Using Arm based Lambda with GO

End of September 2021, AWS announced Graviton 2 powered Lambda Functions. The announcement post says “All Lambda runtimes built on top of Amazon Linux 2, including the custom runtime, are supported on Arm…”. Not all languages out of the

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CDK Lambda Deployment takes about a minute - how about sub second Function Code Deployment?

CDK Lambda Deployment takes about a minute - how about sub second Function Code Deployment? Creation of Lambda infrastructure with the CDK is really powerful. Updating the Function code is really slow. Here is a fix for that to get to a sub-second Lambda

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Enhance Lambda Security with new Amazon Inspector Vulnerability Management and prevent log4jgate

Detect the crack in the window (or the lambda library) before it breaks: As we have seen during the last month, also well known libraries like log4j can have previously unknown vulnerabilities. Therefore scanning your Lambda application before deploying i

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Do you do Lambda Spaghetti?

Last week in the AWS slack developer channel once again, somebody was asking: “How can I run a Lambda locally?”. Well, that is a valid question, but there is a chance that you only think you need a local Lambda emulator because you do Lambda S

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Lambda - breaking Update - testen Sie ihre Lambdas mit binären Bibliotheken *jetzt* auf Kompatibilität!

Lambda - breaking Update - testen Sie Lambda mit binären Bibliotheken jetzt auf Kompatibilität! AWS hat gestern am 14.Mai angekündigt, dass die Laufzeitumgebung von Lambda aktualisiert wird auf Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03. Upcoming updates to the AWS Lambda

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