The Same for everyone: Lambda Function *and* Code with the same language via AWS CDK

The AWS CDK has been presented on reInvent 2018. Its mission is to simplify develop infrastructure as code. There are several other frameworks, as discussed here on the blog in tRick. So there are some competitors… Can you use shiny new CDK also for serverless lambda applications? Big “Yes” from my side, but read for yourself…

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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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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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Call SAP RFC Function Modules from AWS Lambda using the NW RFC SDK and Node.js

SAP provides the SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK to allow external systems to call SAP Systems directly via SAP RFC. I will walk you through the steps it took me to deploy a function on AWS Lambda that uses the NW RFC SDK. Once you mastered those, you could use it

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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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Putting the database to sleep using Lambda - a Python developers first contact with Golang

In this blog, I take you along on my journey to build my first Golang-based Lambda function. Inspired by surprise on my RDS bill, I built a Lambda function in Go to periodically stop running databases with a specific tag. Come, learn and debug with me!

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