Benjamen Pyle articles - 90 total
4 Benefits to using a Service Mesh
I've been spending a great deal of time lately working with Service Meshes and after having a few of...
Chart an Extensible Course with Helm
Clicks, copies, and pasting. That's an approach to deploying your applications in Kubernetes. ...
Connecting Rust Lambda Functions with OpenTelemetry and Datadog
Tracing Lambda Functions with observability code is the basement level of instrumentation that should...
Generate a Momento Disposable Token with Rust and Lambda
Working with browser hosted code (UI) requires a developer to be cautious about exposing secrets and...
DSQL Part 2 – More Rust and a Momento Cache
DSQL Part 2 - More Rust and a Momento Cache It's been two weeks since the launch of AWS...
First Impressions of AWS DSQL with Lambda and Rust
Serverless developers that use Lambda as their compute of choice have long had to make a trade-off in...
Evaluating 2 Popular Service Meshes
The decision to add a Service Mesh to an application comes down to how your application communicates...
Evaluating 2 Popular Service Meshes
The decision to add a Service Mesh to an application comes down to how your application communicates...
Datadog RUM Provides Deep Application Insights
Observability is a user experience concern. Let that sync in for a minute. When you reach a certain...
Taking Local K8s for a Spin with Minikube and ArgoCD
In the beginning there were punched cards. And since that beginning, technologists have continued to...
Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry
As much as I love Rust and especially Rust on serverless, it would be hard for me to recommend Rust...
3 Proven Steps to Becoming a Mentor
I talk to my kids about this all the time. The difference between influence and manipulation that...
ServiceConnect with CDK builds Strong Service Affinity
Containers are a fantastic way to package up your application code and its dependencies. I'm on the...
Strong Performance with EC2, Lambda, and the Momento SDK for Rust
I wrote recently about Mind Boggling Speed with Caching with Momento and Rust and wanted to continue...
My Flow and Productivity has Improved with the Simplicity of Neovim
I don't think it's a surprise if you've been following along with me lately that I've pivoted my...
Mind Boggling Speed when Caching with Momento and Rust
Summer is here and in the northern hemisphere, temperatures are heating up. Living in North Texas,...
Does Serverless Still Matter?
No. Short, simple, and direct. The answer to the question is that serverless at this point and time...
The Neighborhood Domain will Quickly Improve your Modeling Skills
Microservices are about domain decomposition. This decomposition allows code to be deployed that is...
Secure Pattern for Deploying WASM on S3
Picking up where I left off from the last article, I'd built a simple WASM project with Rust and...
Surprisingly Powerful – Serverless WASM with Rust Article 1
It's been a while since I wrote a series going back almost 9 months to my Building Serverless...
Guaranteed Safety using Blue Green with ECS and CDK
Buckle up for this one as it's going to be a lengthy piece. I love writing articles like this one...
3 Proven Patterns for Reporting with Serverless
Serverless architecture has given developers, architects, and business problem solvers new...
An Allow List Lambda Function in Rust is 1 Guaranteed Way to Improve CORS
Some time ago I wrote an article about Cross-Origin Resource Sharing with API Gateway that talks...
A Proven and Comprehensive Pattern for Building an API with Rust and Lambda
I've been encouraged lately by all of the Rust and Serverless content that has been posted on various...
4 Inspiring Tips to Think Like a Consultant
I'm early on in this new venture as a full-time consultant but something that isn't new for me is...
Embrace that a Career isn’t always Measured by Climbing the Technology Ladder
What if I've been thinking about my career all wrong up until this point? How can that even be...
People Matter more than Technology when Building Serverless Applications
I've been hitting the gas pretty hard on Rust lately and doubling down on my desire to see more Rust...
Blazing Fast Change Data Capture with DynamoDB Streams and Rust
Propagating changes in an event-driven system can be accomplished in many different ways with many...
My Personal Serverless Rust Developer Experience. It’s Better Than You Think
One of the things that can be difficult when starting with a new technology, framework or tool is...
Open Telemetry and Lambda
Open Telemetry and Lambda are topics that I've spent a lot of brain cycles on over the past few...