Jason Butz articles - 25 total
JavaScript Lambda Runtime Benchmarking
Last month, I tried out using Bun as a custom JavaScript Lambda runtime and was surprised by the...
JavaScript Lambda Functions Using a Bun Custom Runtime
I've previously tried out Lambda functions with a custom runtime using Deno, and it had great...
How Big Should Your Engineering Team Be?
Have you ever been on a team where it seemed like it took forever to get anything done? You had...
From PartyRock to Bedrock: AI-Powered Automation at Work
There's been an explosion of tools claiming to make your job easier and touting GenAI, and I'm sure...
How to Enable Multi-Session Support in the AWS Console
AWS has finally released support for users to sign in to multiple AWS accounts simultaneously,...
Chaos Engineering with AWS FIS and Lambda
Recently AWS's Fauly Injection Service (FIS) added support for AWS Lambda, maybe it's the other way...
Lit - Lighting Fast Web Components
Ever since the first release of web components I've been interested in them. A way to build...
AWS Certified AI Practitioner Beta Exam Reaction
The other day, I took and passed the new AWS Certified AI Practitioner beta exam. I was surprised at...
IAM Policy Conditions & SQS Queue Access
The other week, I was helping a client work through an interesting challenge. The entire problem...
Amazon CodeCatalyst Quality Reports - What Reports Should Be
Discover Amazon CodeCatalyst's standout feature: quality reports. Dig into the supported reports and setup without configuration or external tool integrations.
Amazon CodeCatalyst - Is it ready for the enterprise?
I’m very interested in recent advancements in cloud-hosted development environments. GitHub...
Enhancing AWS Lambda Security with Deno
Deno is an alternative JavaScript runtime that was released back in 2020. I’ve been seeing more...
Demystifying AWS Partitions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a widely adopted cloud computing platform offering diverse services to...
Secure Deploys from GitHub with the AWS CDK
Learn how to enhance security and streamline the deployment process from GitHub to AWS using OpenID Connect (OIDC). This article explains how to establish a trust relationship between AWS and GitHub, configure an IAM Role, and update GitHub Workflow to leverage OIDC for temporary credentials.
Service Discovery for Serverless Microservices on AWS
Across all my experience with microservices, coupling has been the single most significant cause of...
Building a Resilient Static Website on AWS
Do you remember the AWS outage in December 2021? I do. My client at work had a P1 incident. Many of...
AWS Prescriptive Guidance
Did you know AWS has a library of guides, strategies, and patterns that have been reviewed and can...
Tracking Unhandled JavaScript Errors with Plausible.io
I recently tried out Plausible as an alternative to running my own Countly. With Plausible I was able...
Using Lambda Function URLs to Collect Form Submissions
This past week AWS announced Lambda Function URLs, public endpoints you can enable for Lambda...
Invoking AWS Lambda Functions from API Gateway and SQS
I've noticed people trying to return HTTP status codes from AWS Lambda functions when those functions...
AWS API Gateway Authorizers & Default Responses
A coworker of mine recently was having issues with calling an AWS API Gateway he had deployed. He was...
Live Process Output To The User With Redis and Server-Sent Events
In a recent project I needed to collect the output from a process that was occurring on the server...
Simple Git Rebases
Learning to make appropriate use of git rebase can help you ensure your git commit log makes sense...
Server-Sent Events With Node
Server-Sent Events (SSEs) allow one-way communication from the server to the client. They can be very...
Let's Encrypt - Cloudflare
Let’s Encrypt and certbot are wonderful and make it easy, and cheap, to get SSL certificates setup....