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 Spaghetti! Spaghetti code is a phrase for unstructured and difficult-to-maintain source code. I show you an easier way to test Lambdas locally and have some arguments that a local Lambda runtime should only be the very last resort. On top, you get examples in Pasta-Python, Gemelli-Go and Tortellini-Typescript.

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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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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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Building an AWS Lambda Telemetry API extension for direct logging to Grafana Loki

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

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The cuckoo egg testing lambda

Oh, there is an error in my Lambda function. But - what is the event JSON input which caused the error? Oh, I forgot to log the event in my Lambda code. Damned! It would be great to swap the code with a “just dump the event code” and slip it l

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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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