Jason Wadsworth articles - 17 total
Adaptable Infrastructure on AWS: Combining ECS and Lambda Behind an ALB
I recently attended a session given by Allen Helton (AWS Hero) on the past and future of IaC...
Step Toward Better Tenant Provisioning
In a multi-tenant SaaS application, you often need to manage resources that are tenant-specific....
How to Add Paid Features to Your SaaS Apps
Welcome! This post focuses on implementing feature tiers in SaaS applications, rather than payment...
Lambda-less AppSync for SaaS
As a builder of SaaS software, I often find myself looking at services like AppSync with a bit of...
Securing Cross-Account Access in Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications
If you’re building a SaaS solution, it’s critically important that you protect and isolate your...
Solving the DynamoDB EventBridge Pipes Problem
I was really excited when AWS announced EventBridge Pipes at re:Invent last year. This was going to...
Creating a Unique Constraint with DynamoDB
There are a lot of reasons why switching from SQL to NoSQL is a good idea for much of what we as...
Multi-tenant Security Implementation
In my previous post I talked about why you need to think about data and security differently when...
Multi-tenant Security
Security is hard. Multi-tenant security is harder. Multi-tenancy, however, is what makes the SaaS...
State of Serverless
The latest report on the state of serverless from DataDog was a bit disappointing for me. Here’s...
Working With Hierarchy Data In DynamoDB
Working with hierarchies in DynamoDB can be a little intimidating. In this post I'll show you two...
Lambda Retries and Dead Letter Queues
As you may know, I'm a big fan of serverless in AWS. The primary compute component of serverless in A...
Using Step Functions to Eliminate Your NAT Gateway
I love serverless, for a lot of reasons. One huge benefit is the cost; if you’re not using it you are...
Working With Geo Data In DynamoDB
If you find yourself needing to work with Geo data you might find yourself reaching for tools like El...
Managing Changing Access Patterns With DynamoDB
If you're new to DynamoDB, or NoSQL in general, you'll want to take some time to understand how acces...
Delayed Event Processing - Part 2
In my previous post I showed you how you can handle multiple events but only trigger downstream proce...
Delayed Event Processing - Part 1
Processing event data is a basic concept in today's cloud based architectures. We recently came acros...